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Mandarin and BSButterfly
I am thinking of adding a Bluestripe (or Fremblii) Butterfly to a tank with an established Mandarin. Will this butterfly devour the pod population, thus starving the Mandarin. I read on another post that a Copperbanded Butterfly starved a Mandarin this way. I am having a hard time locating a Bluestripe so the point may be moot, but would like to be prepared in case. Does anyone have experience with these too fish together long term?
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unfortunately i dont have the Xperience u r looking 4. but, i do have some with mandarin(s). and, they are not rely as difficult 2 ween to the prep food as many say. and if it is feeding on frozen/dry regularly and needs his pods just 4 a snack, than u may not have a problem. and here is a tip on how u do it: get fresh fish eggs from inside the fish on the fishmarket, freeze them and offer some 2 the fish. u will be surprised with what happens next. get it used 2 a feeding station. next, mix the eggs with other frozen food. in 3 days max (6 feedings) yuor mandarin will be traned to take frozen like a clock. it may take u a while to trane it go off the rock to get food, but u can trane it to eventially go anywhere in the tank just like u would with a puppy.
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Thanks for the info. My mandarin currently eats pods, mysis and Cyclo-peeze. It is not an aggresive hunter-more a slow and steady wins the race. When I feed the tank mysis and Cyclo-peeze, the mandarin seems to eat what floats in front of him as opposed to finding the source. He is healthy and eating, so I am leaving it at that.
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Err.... This is not a good piece of advice. Your mandarin will not be sustained on prepared foods nutritionally and eventually will die if there are no pods in the tank. Quote:
Unfortunately for now you are going to have to do some more research on the Butterfly fish regarding it's pod eating habbits. I am not aware of them being a fish that heavily predates pods. Do be aware that most (if not all) fish will consume copepods on occasion, even our friendly little clownfish
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"Copepods, ain't no substitute" - The Mandarin Dragonet. |
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