I'm so excited!!

And I just can't hide it! My Mandarin dragonet ate brine shrimp this weekend!!! I saw him scarf down at least a dozen of them!!! Then the next day I fed frozen mysis shrimp and he ate those to!!! I was so happy to see this. I have a fuge full of pods, but I worried about him starving since my tank is only 30 gallons. Attached is a pic from shortly after his feast!

 

thats wonderful news! He looks like a fat and happy fish

congrats on such good care!

 

Thats cool....how long have you had him/her? What did you do different that made him eat the brine?

I think I am getting one on Tuesday and would love for it to eat brine...I should be so lucky

Congrats!!!!

 

I have had him for about 1 month and had been feeding brine but didn't see him eat it. The thing I did differently when he finally at the brine shrimp was this. I shut off ALL pumps, so the water was still. Dumped some brine on a few places on the rock. He came creeping around the rocks as usual looking for tiny pods, came across the brine, and BAM! He started muching em down. I was so happy!! My wife thought I was crazy!!

 

Congrats

 

That's awesome!

There's one of my LFS here in Knoxville, TN that feeds all their mandarins frozen food. They sell them to you as "Trained Dragonets"

Brother in law got one and he's doing well even though he's got absolutely no visible pods on his rock.

So, it's possible. I don't know how they do it, but they seem to train them to eat frozen food... Garlic may encourage the fish as well.... or maybe just hunger... I don't know.

Glad yours eat frozen food!

- Mag.