has anyone ever had a green mandrein?

[mydawg8mystash]

has anyone ever had a green mandrein?

[Darbex]

Yes

[myjohnson]

Lol, is there a follow up question?

[mydawg8mystash]

yea are they hard to keep im thinkin of tryin a small salt tank but as addicted as i have gotten with fw kinda scared to.. lol

[myjohnson]

Not hard at all. Hardest thing is always to get them to eat. At fist, they only eat live food for the most part. You need a bigger tank or get them to eat frozen food if you want to keep them in a smaller tank.

I'm try my hands at a red mandarin this time around. I'm working with a new training method to get them to eat frozen food and pellets (I hope).

[Totenkampf]

those have always been a favorite of mine too if i ever start SW....so by 'not hard at all' do you mean to an experienced SW aquarist or is it actually good for a first SW tank?

[eklikewhoa]

I think a smaller tank or a large well established tank is what is needed for these.

Small tank - feed live foods, easier for it to find the food

[myjohnson]

those have always been a favorite of mine too if i ever start SW....so by 'not hard at all' do you mean to an experienced SW aquarist or is it actually good for a first SW tank?

Literally not hard at all like any other FW fish....as long as you get it to eat.

I might do a write on a training them. I had a lot of success with my last one.

If they don't learn to eat and if they only eat pods in your tank....they will slowly die.

[eklikewhoa]

Buy boxes of pods before buying a mandarin.


Gotta pay to play.

[Darbex]

I wouldnt say they are easy but they arent hard. I only lost mine because he was suicidal and jumped. The hard part is making sure they have enough to eat if they are not on prepared foods.

[TiAg]

Pods, pods, pods, pods. Get pods and put them in your sump and tank. Give it a couple weeks so they can start to propagate. I've had a blue mandarin for awhile and he's doing great. They eat mostly pods but from what I've heard they can be trained to eat other food as well.

[myjohnson]

I rather train mine to take different foods rather then just pods.

I rarely see a fat healthy mandarin eatting just pods.

[eklikewhoa]

you rarely see anyone with enough pods to support a mandarin

[wesleydnunder]

you rarely see anyone with enough pods to support a mandarin

+1

Most mandarins starve to death.

Mark

[TiAg]

Nope agree to all. Mine came out of a tank where it had lived for months with no pods, so he's eating other foods. But, my tank is heavily seeded with pods anyway :)