mandarins and cyclop-eez

[sicshift]

Found my mandaring munchin down on freez dried cyclop-eez. not the flake kind. anyone else had any luck with this? I was very happy to see him eating something other than pods.

[EdKruzel]

It is not completely unheard of for Mandarins to eat processed foods.
I have owned a few over the past 25yrs.
I always ask to see a fish eat before I purchase the specimen. With Mandarins I insist on seeing it eat processed foods.

I've never lost one yet to starvation and they have all grown to a ripe old age.

Good Luck,
Ed

[geris]

Mine loooooves cyclopeeze, he gets under the turkey baster just to receive a shower of cyclops!! He also loves other frozen foods but his favorite by far is cyclopeeze.

[swiftwing7]

My mandarine loves mysis shrimp. He waits around the front of the tank towards feeding time and picks around at pods. Once I pour the shrimp in letswaits for them to drop to the bottom and eats them. I ahve actually seen him swim halfway up the tank (24") to get a shrimp though. I was very happy to see this and he is getting very fat. I am considering getting a second one now, a female. He might teach her to eat frozen foods too.