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[Poor Boy]

I've been doing quite a bit of reading along with speaking with a few members about mandarins and their eating habits. These are obviously hard fish to keep. As most of you know, I've been dosing my tank with pods like a mad man and still lost my female mandarin.

Well, this morning, I dropped a pinch of New Life Spectrum pellets in the tank to fill the other fish so they wouldn't be interested in the pods and what do I see? You guessed it! My male mandarin was going at! He was along side the other fish eating the pellets like a champ!

I'm going to continue with the pd dosing, but I'm pretty happy with the fact that he is no longer a little brat.

It blows my mind that these mandarins would rather starve to death over eating anything else. Reminds me of my kids at time. I was expecting the two mandarins to start holding their breath until they got their way.

(My kids don't do that... I'd prob LOL if they tried. "Hey, babe, look how red he's turning!")

[Flyride95]

Grats!


180gal + 30gal sump with an awesome wave.

[Big_Pun]

that's good but your correct on adding pods still. these guys eat all day so unless your dropping lots of pellets all(which would be bad) supplementing with pellets is a great way to keep them fat and healthy. these guys come straight from the wild,so that's the reason you need a healthy tank with pods, to buy time until you train them to eat prepared foods. it's not hard to do but takes a lil time to get them to eat. new life pellets seem to work the best

[Paul28]

Very nice he is taking other food !!! will he take frozen foods ?

[Poor Boy]

I havnt tried yet. I've been more focused on dosing the tank 3x a day with pods.

[350gt]

If you introduce frozen...

Make sure to rinse it....

[CoryDude]

I recently restarted my tank and had to give my target mandarin (even though he ate frozen food) to a good home. I was having to spot feed him 3 times a day and he was still losing weight. There's no way you can establish a healthy food supply for them without letting your tank mature for another 4-6 months.

[Poor Boy]

Starting bid is 800.00.

[Ratattooy]

Starting bid is 800.00.

$805


Airborne

[Big_Pun]

dang I only charges $40 for mine. should of asked for more lol