Mandarin dragonette info needed

Yay! I'm finally posting a question that's NOT an emergency! ;D I bought a pair of mandarins a few days ago. I did research them before buying, but due to info recieved on other threads here I'm finding I didn't do enough research. I have a 29 gallon biocube, live rock (about 25-30 lbs) that's about 4 months old. I've been adding one bottle per week of live copepods for about a month. since buying the mandarins I've been adding 2 bottles of live copepods every other day. The female (Juliet, lol) is also accepting fortified brine shrimp readily. Romeo is still only eating copepods, which I will continue to provide as long as I have the fish. Am I doing enough? Any feeding or care tips? These are my absolute favorite fish, I want them to be happy and healthy, so any info you can give on their care will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

Let me tell you it will get very expensive in that small a tank. It is good news that at least one is showing interest in prepared food. Try and ween it onto Mysis if you can it is much more nutritious. There are also a few that have had luck with Nutra mar Ova. Heres a good link with some great info.

http://www.3reef.com/forums/fish-month/mandarin-dragonette-fotm-may-08-a-47991.html

 

You will be surprised how fast 1 mandarinwill decimate your pod population. Two mandarins are even scarier. I would highly recommend a pod farm attached to your tank like a seperate 10 or 15 gallon for feeding these guys. You said you want to keep them long and happy. A Pod Farm will help with this.

I have also seen some success with feeding them misaga(not sure about right spelling, sushi fish eggs.

 

Thanks so much for your help guys I lost my clean up crew in the salinity spike I had last week (I know what I did wrong, and it's mistake I won't make again. I hate it when stuff dies because I was stupid.) But I need critters to clean algae and waste. I was thinking of a few dwarf blue legs (which I had before) and a marble serpent star since it eats waste and is extremely peaceful. Will either of these cause a prob with my mandarins? I did research them, but wanting to confirm my research was accurate before buying anything else. Thanks again guys!

 

Definatley get on that pod farming, I waited a year to put a single dragonet in my 120, and im still nervous. I have a 39 gal sump with lots of live rock in it, but im in the process of adding a 45 gal cube into the system as a refugium, just to keep him fat and happy with pods.

 

Bloodworms also work. What I have noticed is that once they take prepared food you can mix in other foods into the food they readily take. I started with brine as well, and now mine eats brine, mysis, and bloodworms. I just started added a small amount of mysis and bloodworms to the brine and used a baster to put the food in the water column right in front of him.