Thanks everyone for your support! I am glad you guys enjoyed the writeup. My idea is that if we want to have our nano tanks considered for the nTOTM, we will have to provide just as good an effort when it comes to th write up! Perhaps the "elves" will consider it in the near future
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Originally posted by EnFuego
How long did it take you to train the mandarin to take prepared food? Any technique or did you just give him brine shrimp with some frozen mysis mxed in?
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EnFuego, the little guy was eating a little brine at the LFS and that's why I even bought him. However, after going into my tank, he wasn't eating with gusto. The training was mainly patience and observing what he was comfortable with. The first step was to get him to realise that the baster was where the food came from. After that it was much easier. At one stage, this tank had a captive bred seahorse, who ate like a pig. That taught the mandarin to be competitive with food and now he will come to the surface as soon as the pumps go out.
Grink Dude: The price of peppermints are OK (~USD$11) but often you need to wait a few month before coming across some at the LFS. Cleaner shrimps (blood and redline) on the other hand are very expensive due to availability.
ezcompany: All the flow are from the AC70 and AC50. Both push ~1000L/h. Did you miss the polling thread?
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=964254