2010年4月30日 · I've got a Green Mandarin and 2 Scooter Blennies in my 20h soon to be reef tank. All of them seem to be eating pellets and freeze dried mix readily, and appear fat and happy. The Mandarin is still a bit shy, but has a favorite hangout under a live rock overhang.

2024年12月26日 · It's about 2.5 years old but we had TONS of issues the first 18 months so really it's been a healthy, happy reef for about a year. After oodles of fish issues we went fallow, QTd all our existing fish, and since have exclusively purchased fish from the incomparable @Dierks at the Fishotel. After 2 recent losses (a Skunk tilefish that simply ...

2020年11月5日 · They will also sometimes eat live blackworms (or whiteworms), fish/prawn eggs, but baby live brine is a good option. I know @Paul B built a brine shrimp feeder that he uses for his mandarin. If you can buy a Captive-Bred Biota or ORA Mandarin, those are usually already eating frozen/pellets:

2024年12月26日 · Another wonderful captive specimen gone. Had this fish for about 2 months, all seemed well, was out and about yesterday, ate, today dead on the ground before being pulled up by the mp60. I think these fish are the junk fish of the hobby, no different than freshwater, some tank raised fish are mightily worse then the wild caught ones.

2020年8月28日 · Mandarins are a hard to keep fish that need constant food supply of live pods and multiple feedings a day with supplement foods. It could be looking for food. Not uncommon for fish to do odd things.

2024年12月26日 · Some prefer to “overpay” to buy quarantined fish or rare fish or captive bred. Some will pay a little extra to buy from quality vendors with a solid reputation. And then others will only pay the bottom dollar price for everything, and may have to resort to buying from Petco or shady online vendors.

2024年12月26日 · All three were the same size at the time with the Flame Back almost full grown. When I moved them out of observation and into the main DT the Queen was already 25% bigger than the Majestic. Now the Queen is at least 60% bigger than the Majestic. The Majestic is one of the smaller fish in the tank so he gets pushed around by all the big fish.

2008年6月9日 · Dunno but mandarin Gobies are awesome looking fish. I saw my first baby Mandarin this Thursday - and saw an adult Mandarin Gobie this weekend. Very cool fish. I look forward to getting one when I get a 50 gallon tank some day.

2009年3月26日 · I've had 2 mandarin "dragonets" in the past (separate times of course); in my 55 (with approximately 60 lbs live rock in the display and another 25 lbs in the refugium) with a mature system of approx. 2 years.

2024年12月26日 · Thank you for the update and continued sharing of videos. This helps fellow hobbyist and of course Biota. Sometimes captive bred and/or raised fish get a bad wrap. Sharing content of the young juvenile fish behavior and color over time is priceless. In my opinion. More so when hobbyist bicker about belly, color, size, morphs.