Spotted vs Red, Green, Blue Mandarin

ok so hopefully some of you know by now that im in love with mandarins and have done research and polls on how successful people were in getting their mandarins to eat. i think it came out to about a 75% success rate. now im doing if you had a spotted mandarin if it ate yes or no or normal mandarin if it ate yes or no thanks for your input

 

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Perks up when Arctipods is added to the tank, otherwise, is oblivious to the world.

 

I have a green/red mandarin, and it loves Ocean Nutrition pellets. The old owner fed the veggie ones, I feed the meaty ones. She also said it ate live brine, but I don't keep live brine, so I never found out.

Mine is just as oblivious as jonjon's, except mine is even oblivious when I put in the ON pellets. I have to make sure it's out in the front of the tank, or it won't find them.

 

No way in heck do 75% of people get a mandarin to eat prepared foods. Probably more like 5%. I have had two green mandarins. One would eat prepared, the other wouldn't. Color won't make a difference anyways, they are all the same species, just different pattern. It's like saying a cocker spaniel with shorter hair would be less likely to run away.

 

pack leader go to my other poll that i did and see for your self i dont make up the numbers

 

and guys plz vote and not just reply thanks by the way im doing this survey because Roger williams has a mandarin breeding program which breeds them and weenes them onto prepared foods. they also said that it was easier for them to get spotted mandarins onto prepared foods so i wanna test to see if this is correct

 

I'm not saying you did. But lot of people like to falsely lay in to what they got their fish to do and there are a whole heck of a lot more mandarin owners that weighed in on your poll. I would say 5% would even be generous. And not to be negative, but IMHO if you have to count on something as specialized as a mandarin eating prepared, then you really shouldn't be housing that kind of fish.

 

Pack leader here it is
http://www.3reef.com/forums/tropical-fish/mandarin-frozen-82190.html

 

also all of the breeders at Roger williams university are having a 80- 90 % success rate with switching them over to prepared foods. they use lighs which attract actipods where the mandarins feed then they mix in frozen actipods then add in mysis and so on and so forth and the mandarin figure out that thats where the food is they eat pretty much anything that is shined on by the light. they also have used a petri dish as a substitue for the light

 

You're asking a website with a bunch of people who are experienced fishkeepers if they got a mandarin to eat prepared foods. Your numbers are skewed because that's only a small portion of the population of mandarin buyers, and even more skewed becuase you have 22 respondants out of thousands of mandarins bought. Even past that, anyone who had a mandarin that died, then got another that ended up eating prepared foods, ends up in the "eating prepared" category, without being able to mention their past failure in the poll.

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