Help On Mandarin

[BlueKing]

All ShiFus here,

Please advise what do I need to feed my mandarin? The fellow refuse to eat leh, help~

UPDATED: Sorry, please ignore this threat. Found a simillar threat here....

[chipson1]

This fellow eat only natural food, like copepode. Your tank must be matured enough to produce these type of food before you introduce this fish.

Cheers!

Chipson1

[ashidiq]

try live brine shrimp and make sure there is no one to compete with him for food... btw u need a mature tand with lots of pods for a mandrin...

[damien]

maybe u want to pass it to one of the reefers here instead of letting it die.

[FuEl]

Mine chases frozen mysis. Is yours the normal or the spotted one? I find the spotted mandarin easier to wean so far.

[BlueKing]

Yeah, mine is spot one. Just bought a net-box to put the fella in and also put MYSIS shrimp (frozen) in as well.... But, he just swim around didn't show any interest in the food??

[Gouldian]

Yeah, mine is spot one. Just bought a net-box to put the fella in and also put MYSIS shrimp (frozen) in as well.... But, he just swim around didn't show any interest in the food??

Actually Mandarin and its spotted cousin feeds on pods (Copepods, Amphipods etc).

Some can be wean into taking Mysis such as the ones that Fuel kept. But most needs abundance pods inyour tank in order to survive.

Thus most literature advises against keeping Mandarins in a tank that has not mature as it will not be able to generate enough pods for the Madarin.

If however, your tank has been set-up for six months and again already and has lots of LRs, I would suggest you release it into the tank, you will notice it immediately heading towards your pile of LR in search of pods.

I noticed you have place it in a net box, are your training it to take mysis? If yes, then I think you should ask Fuel for more advice.

I for one, just leave it to my pods to keep my Mandarin happy.

[shoelevy]

mine is spotted and takes frozen food...think wen it starts to starve it'll smarten up and eat frozen

[surfedelic]

Try Live Brine shrimp first and then slowly use frozen Brineshrimp.

My 2 cents.

[marcvelous]

Mine eats frozen brine shrimp and finely chopped nori but I want to try to get it to eat pellets and cyclop-eeze!

[FuEl]

I notice it helps if you off your water circulation and let the food sink to the bottom of the tank. Some of my newly acquired mandarins prefer to pick food from the floor rather than having to chase them.