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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.. ;)

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:lol::lol:

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. :peace:

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

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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. ;)

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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...

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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.

:) Greeting :)

Tank: 4' by 2' by 2' (CR antique)

Sump: 3' include 1' refuigm

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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 :D - 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.

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