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12/19/2007, 02:45 PM
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mandarin advice
i've always wanted a mandarin but hesitated because of their hard to feed rep. now i've had a fuge for about 5 months now. does anyone have one and has anyone been able to get these guys to eat frozen food?
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#2
12/19/2007, 03:43 PM
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They're relatively easy to keep actually, i've had 2 myself, and my girlfriend has one. Just make sure you have plenty of LR for them to peck at, you should have a sufficient number of pods now, if you feel you're getting low, just supplement every once in a while. I got both of mine eating spirolina brine shrimp and cyclopeez within a week's time. My girlfriend's eats live ghost shrimp...she gets ravenous for those things!
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#3
12/19/2007, 04:02 PM
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Sometimes they never accept frozen food. It really depends on the mandarin. I haven't seen mine eat any frozen food, but he will actually come out at feeding time and gobble up any formula 2 pellets that hit the sand bottom.
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12/19/2007, 06:06 PM
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just be careful, with your size tank, the 29g i assume from your sig, that little guy could dessicate your pod population in no time. so if you could get him/her on frozen, that will be the long term way to keep him alive without having to re-populate your pods
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12/19/2007, 06:48 PM
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mine never takes frozen. I've fed frozen mysis to it's tank mates and some artic pods?, the dead pods in a bottle. The he'll go over to them see them not move and move over to grazing some place else. I've had mine for 6 months. On one hand i never worry about feeding him, so he does make it easy. If your trying to find a mandarin by frozen or other food forget it. It's nice to get them to eat other foods, but they have to eat all day. Feeding them once or twice a day isn't going to cut it if you don't have the pod population. My advice give your fudge a couple more months, or even wait the whole year for the pods to build up.
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#6
12/20/2007, 11:46 AM
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thanks for the advice. i'm going to give it a try. if the little fella doesn't seem to do well I will give it back to my friends at the local shop.they've had the mandarin i've been looking for about six weeks or so, so i assume they're pod population is high.
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#7
12/20/2007, 12:47 PM
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Goodluck. You could also add a little filter pad in between a few rocks where you could barely see it and squirt tigger pods in there. I did that and they reproduce very fast. I dont even have a refugium... I got some in the canister and most in the filter pad where the manderin cant reach and it seems to be doing fine.
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#8
12/20/2007, 01:06 PM
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Heres a little help for you..
http://www.melevsreef.com/mandarin_diner.html http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1274074
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