Success rate

[FelixSu]

has anyone kept this before? how long has it been surviving or ... how long it lasted?

have to specially feed?

thanks for the input in advance.

[pegasus1010]

it mostly feed on pods.

require an established tank & constant supply of pods.

[typrobin]

your tank MUST be mature and have lots of pods..they dun feed on anything else...

[Lin]

they can be trained to feed on mysis

veri had to train leh.. i got 1 abt 2yrs ago.. then not eating anything(it eats when parents feed with tubiflex, i scold them like hell, then they stop feeding and it went to heaven).. and last mth i got one.. then outta nowhere, it MIA.. fink lack of pods..

agree with pegasus1010..

[limbssg]

I think he means his parents feed the mandarins with tubiflex worms.

[Lin]

I think he means his parents feed the mandarins with tubiflex worms.

woh.. u got it! i tot i typo..

[Lin]

ok...i misinterpreted...anyway...she is a her..not he

thks for changing my gender back...

[pegasus1010]

thought u scold the mandarin's parent..so funny the way u put it..

anyway, felix if u wanna try, suggest u have a refugium & wait at least 6 mths to 1 yr then try keeping dis fish.

refugium with liverock & caulpera or chaeto will increase the pods growth, or so I gathered from reading up here.

alternatively is to buy from reefer who had managed to wean it to feeding on shrimps.

recent discussion here:

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...view=getnewpost

[moxa]

try flooding the tank with tiny size live brine shrimp.

cheers

Moxa

[Dispar_Anthias]

To keep greeen mandarin you gonna have a very established tank... Surprisingly most mandarin in SL eat frozen brine/ mysis shrimp....

[livebait]

your tank MUST be mature and have lots of pods..they dun feed on anything else...

bro,the spotted still alive & kicking .....seems like grow 1mm liao

[FelixSu]

thanks peeps for the kind info.

meaning mysis have to target feed.? wouldn't this fella go hiding in rocks?

[Gouldian]

It is difficult to taget feed them in the display tank. What some bros have tried is to wean them to eating mysis in a small tank before transferring to the display.

But if you look at the natural behaviour of the Mandarin, you will find that they are constantly hunting for pods. As such, I will prefer to add them to a matured that that have a healthy supply of pods.

The fastest way to do this it to keep you tank fishless for a couple of months, by then you will notice tons of pods swimming or hanging around your tank - this is the perfect moment to add the mandarin. But make sure you only add one per tank! Also try not to get those that are more than 1 inch in size cuz they eat lesser and are also less finicky.

[AhLoon]

Surprisingly, my green mandarin have been with me for 8 months now (see avatar)... and I even have a sixline wrasse.

Lucky for me the pods supply had been constant (i don't know how) as I hardly see my mandarin feed on any kind of fish food that I'd given them...

An interesting observation for mine is that it kind of like the sera plankton pill...

[neokn]

Ah Loon,

Where to buy them? How much? Solid or liquid form?

[typrobin]

dun think live BS will work...if u notice, mandarin are not fast swimmers...dun think they will be able to fight with other fishes for BS...

[SBS_Transit]

Is there any kind of food u can add in ? like bottled pods(never heard) ?

[damienkee]

but i think them r hard to train......on eating fish food....

pod suppy finish up.... and their life oso end up!

[jyilailong]

I kept mine for quite somtime (about 3 month) and survive well. It feed on frozen blood worm, brine shrimp & prawn meat. Don't see any difficulty to keep it.

[kareen]

If u want to keep mandrain, the success rate is higher when:

1) lots of pods

2) low bioload of fish tank

3) keep with slow eater fish and not with greedy fish like tangs

4) daily feeding them with frozen mysis shrimp

If ur tank has the above condition, should not have much problem.

[steven]

what is pod ?

any pics ?

[Sapient]

Infact I like the mandarin very much but no luck as well .... personally I think it is quite difficult have a lot of pods in the tank to feed a mandarin ... if that is the case ... in most tank I dont think it is even feasible to have a mandarin in our aquarium in the first place.

Currently there is a thread talking about keeping mandarin in the RC... there are also picture of the owner handfeeding the mandarin BS while the other fishes watches - pretty amusing. The other trick the owner use was placing the food in a small bottle such that only the mandarin could access the food where bigger fish cannot easily access them.

I think if we could train the mandarin first in a separate tank using BS .. and then transfer them to the main tank once they got accustomed to the food .. then applying the bottle method - the chances of survival will be much higher.

[veliferium]

Take a look at this!!!!!!!!!!!!!MAndarin on pellets

[weileong]

Ever heard of anthias on pellets?

[patrick123]

my anthias eat pellets too. Both dispers and lyretails. I'm down to the last purple queen however. Will not get anymore purple queen after this.