mandarin fish new thread!

ok everyone id stsill like some more information if anyone has had sucess with feeding them prepared food and id like to hear other peoples mandarin storys and if they worked or not and if so y and if not y thanks

 

and also if you have a six line wrasse id like to know info about that and if you think it eats copepods or something bigger because i have one and im trying to have a mandarin and if they compete for food that wouldnt be good so plz respond

 

Yes the six line eats pods. If you need to worry about a mandarin eating prepared, then you probably shouldn't get one. Just my two cents.

 

i have had a mandarin for nearly 4 years now... i didn't put him in the tank until it was nearly a year established though. not sure about them competing for food though.

 

I have a mandarin right now. Got him not too long ago. Tank is covered in copepods but I got him to eat live brine as well (I was VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY lucky on this one. Most definitely not often that this happens). It is cheap enough to buy and easy enough to culture at home.

 

my 6line definitely eats a lot of pods

 

my mandarin is fat as professor klump but i waited 4 months to get him and i have a food producing refugium also a couple of rock rubble piles in the dt

 

Yes, 6 lines as well as many other wrasses will compete for food with mandarins. I know one guy that had 2 fat and happy mandarins in his 180g for years, then he added a couple wrasses and they ate so many pods that his mandarins starved.

Usually mandarins will not eat prepared foods. A well established fuge feeding the tank will help a lot.

I hate to say it, but unless you had a huge fuge, that I would not attempt a mandarin in only a 55g tank.

Another friend of mine finally got a mandarin in his year and a half old 120g, and he was worried about not having enough pods eve with a 60g sump with a big fuge in it. His mandarin is nice and happy.

 

ok so if i get like a 10 gallon fuge do you think it would be enough with my 55 gallon tank? my tank has been established for a year and ive added 12000 pods but i have a wrasse i think what i might do is get fuge and have rock and put 8000 more pods in it and let it sit for like 3 months and then get a mandarin

 

also ive been able to feed my six line some pellet food hes still a little skittish around feeding time with the clowns and damsel but if one is in front of him hell gulp it down does anyone elses six line do this and if so have you been able to have him only eat pellet