I did something terribly stupid and impulsive.

[YahooFishKeeper]

i bought a mandarin. he's orange.


at the store, he apeared to be eating the "mix" of food the people feed. (mysis, garlic flakes, something else that makes it look poo brown???) he was just so colorful and only $17 so if it doesnt work out its not like i lost an entire investment. (dont take it like i want it to die or anything)

i have a 30 gallon long tank thats been set up since november, but i had some of the rock for about a year previously, so its pretty established. the tank has been stable, and has had corals since january. (that proves the tank is healthy right?) anyways... im pretty excited.

my camera cord is lost, but fuzz has pics of the mandarin while he was still in the bag that she should be adding sometime.

 

[Biotope Dude]

What is the minimum tank size for a Mandarin?

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

it depends... they can be kept in 10 gallons if you get them on frozen food, but you really SHOULD keep one in a large tank (about 75 gallons) because they usually only eat pods and you need to have a lot of areas for the pods to breed and a bigger tank provides more places.

 

[Katie217]

pics pics pics pics

 

[Biotope Dude]

it depends... they can be kept in 10 gallons if you get them on frozen food, but you really SHOULD keep one in a large tank (about 75 gallons) because they usually only eat pods and you need to have a lot of areas for the pods to breed and a bigger tank provides more places.

Kool. I guess that makes sense.

pics pics pics pics

Agreed *twirlysmi

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

LOL, just asked fuzz to load them. they should be up shortly.

 

[Fuzz16]

mmmmk impatient people
here you go

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

i see how it is... beg for pics, then dont tell me what you think of them...

 

[ColoFishGuy]

i see how it is... beg for pics, then dont tell me what you think of them...

I think it looks like a mandarin goby in a bag...

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Awesome fish good luck! Definently one i am going to keep when i re-enter the hobby.

Only time will tell how it does.

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

i cant wait. i really hope i can get it to eat. all i have right now is mysis, but i plan on finding out who around here sells cyclopeze and possibly ore.... right ram?

 

[Oreo]

It's so cute! I wish there were freshwater fish that looked like that!

 

[Joe Fish]

Awesome fish. Definitely a nice addition to any tank.

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

I AM AMAZING. i am. really. bow before me... he just ate... counte em... 3... THREE mysis shrimp. from a syrringe (sp?) i was bored and had never fed anything myss before, so i thought id feed my corals, and shrimp (those dirty cannibals!) and a piece went by the mandarin and he looked kindof interesteed, so i got it real close and squirted a couple out and he ate.

 

[Hamburgler]

Good to hear...looks great.

 

[Katie217]

Awesome! Off to a great start! you have lots of pods right

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

yes. i do. used to see em all the time before i rearranged my tank on saturday, then it got dusty... now i cant see much of anything, but im sure theyre still there.

 

[Joe Fish]

You got lucky. Mine has yet to take a liking to frozen food. Luckily I have quite a huge pod population.

 

[CoolWaters]

my pod pop suxs...i remember back when every LR was covered with them...now there all gone....

thats a pretty nice looking mandi....

good luck with him and i dont think its stupid getting it.

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

unfortunately, my mandarin died. i believe it was something other than starvation though, ive only had it since monday, and he was not as skinny as ive heard they get before complete starvation.