mandarin dragonet care

[diverxxx]

Mandarin dragonet is one of the most beautiful fishes in the ocean.the colors are bright and its just amazing to see them swim to hunt for pods.

i've been lucky to have one in my tankl that is healty and fat

to those u want to keep them you may find this an interesting read.

i would recommend that you have your tank set up at least 3-4 months before deciding to keep one and keep one mandarin per tank.

also introduce live rock as they contain pods which is their diet. keeping one madarin will keep the population of pods to be sustainable for it to survive. also try to feed it with brine shrimp.

good luck

[andrewttw]

Have you ever tried pairing the mandarins? I tried buying a male for my female and they jut started fighting. And now I have to put the female in my refugium with all the pods because I don't have another tank. Pod decimation...

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[sanjaypills55]

I totally agree ... mandarin fishes are very beautiful.. its one of my favorites.

But in my experience they are very picky eaters..

It wont accept any food.. even tried feeding live brine shrimp.. just wouldn't eat

[diverxxx]

yeah...some mandarins are just so stuborn they would rather starve to death.

i've never tried to pair them before...but intend to get another one soon.

[cutebarra77]

Just have to keep trying to train them. What works for me is to mix mysis and/or with repashy community plus powder and then let them hunt for the food in peace in a fish trap box. Even my orange spotted filefish is mysis trained in this way. For some reasons, they rejected the repashy in gel form. This is quite 'potent' stuff if you look at the ingredients...

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[cutebarra77]

Btw, no harm adding pellets as well to cross train them too.

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[Saeight Abdul Rahman]

Btw, no harm adding pellets as well to cross train them too.

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how do you train them to eat pellets bro? i tried putting frozen mysis shrimp in a bottle and place the bottle on sand bed. they didnt even enter the bottle. -_-"

[tnb]

So far mine is relatively healthy in a 3 footer. Still not eating pellets but takes a little frozen mysis, which it just decided to try after a month. Been keeping it for 4 months.

[cutebarra77]

 

 

how do you train them to eat pellets bro? i tried putting frozen mysis shrimp in a bottle and place the bottle on sand bed. they didnt even enter the bottle. -_-"

I have to isolate them from the rest since they are slow eaters. I kept them in the fish trap box. You can put in a divider to section off an area and put in some cheato with pods. This is just for back up in case they reject the mysis and pellets so that they won't starve. Then I feed them frozen mysis mixed with nls small pellets and rasphery powder. They can take all the time they want to eat. Uneaten food will just fall through the holes in the fish trap to the DT.

Again, this is what works for me.

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[qianjun]

Can't to have 2 together. My pair keep fighting so have to split. But they keep nipping on lr for food.

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[metaphor89]

previously mine was kept in a 1.5ft shallow tank, mine was lucky i guessed as there are many pods in my tank even though it was setup only for 1 month.

i saw Coral Farm selling mandarin dragonets in pairs in each individual containers, are they supposedly paired up already?

[Saeight Abdul Rahman]

mine is a pair. no fights or whatsoever. got it from Henry. There are house together in the same tnak. and i managed to got my pair to eat live brine shrimp!

[hanafi_weeseng]

Got my pair from henry too. Cost more but at least confirm will not fight then try to pair up 2 single together.

[metaphor89]

It will be nice, if they will reproduce..=D