Still pursuing this effort.

Tonight we were blessed with a female wild caught mandarin from Jeremy. Thanks dude!

Unfortunately though the little woman is half starved.. not Jeremy's fault obviously as the fish just came in. I'm very disappointed that a wholesaler would ship a fish that is all bones. Whoever picked this fish up for Jeremy should definitely complain to the vendor. Fish labeled as "t/r" or "tank raised" are NOT captive bred. They are wild caught fish that are held for a short time in "growout" and then tagged with "tank raised" which most people mistake as "captive bred".

I'm very happy that we culture copepods and live rotifers as we may be able to beef her back up.

Here's a vid of her in a pod bath...



pic in the pod bath...



Her stall loaded with amphipods, isopods and copepods...



Here is the male and his stall (he is also wild caught)...






I will put them together once the female is healthy and fat and they get comfortable with one another through the clear divider.