Spotted vs Red, Green, Blue Mandarin

Only 22 respondants to a your poll makes your results unrealiable, I'm afraid. It would take a vast more number of paticipates for you to actually have enough data to interpret.

I have to agree it is no where near 75%.

One thing you would have to find out is where they got the mandarins from. There's been a few ORA mandarins floating around lately and that would tip the scales tremendously.

 

Your percentage was 50%.

 

Sample size of 2 makes his ratio totally unsafe to extrapolate from.

 

I would ignore the poll results and look to WHY the OP posted the poll in the first place.

Does he want to keep a mandarin and want some sort of validation that its ok that he keep one in a tank that does not have proper live food?

It seems that many people with persistent effort have trained mandarins to take prepared food. To put this in perspective, let me use an analogy- Some people also train dogs to jump through hoops. Does that mean ALL dogs jumps through hoops? No.. but I bet with the proper training, one could get most any dog to do it. Posting a question on a dog forum - "Does your dog jump through hoops?" may get a lot of responses from people who have successfully trained their dog to jump through the hoop. But the results will not mean that all dogs jump through hoops.

Maybe a better poll would be to say "Have you successfully attempted to and trained a mandarin to eat prepared foods?" And ask that only those who have attempted to train a mandarin respond. This way, you are narrowing your results.

Then you ask yourself, "Do I want to put for the effort to train a mandarin to eat prepared foods?" If it does not eat prepared foods from day one, it will be up to you to do this. Is it worth the effort, and potential loss that may come because you do not have enough live food for it to eat?

If the answers to these questions is yes, then I'd say go for it.