will my tank suport a mandarin goby

You can get a mandarin that eats prepared foods, but you will still need to spot feed it multiple times a day. So I guess if you can be home through out the day to feed it then sure you can do it but it certainly wont be living on pods because they will be all gone in no time. So you would also have to buy pods frequently.

 

It all depends on how much you like that fish I guess. Training isnt that big a deal, becasue I for sure an not home all the time.....

Why??? mine eats once a day, every day and I have never spot feed it, it just zooms out ans eats with everyone else, and its doing just fine.....

 

I feed mine once a day and he does fine also. Blood worms are his food of choice.

 

what is the min size tank recommended for a mandarin? I've always wanted one but when I did some reading about them i decided against it, but since ive added a fuge maybe its possible now.

 

id also like to know the min tank size. its good to see someone from oregon on 3reef

 

Unless yours is eating processed food Dragonets should never be introduced to an aquarium smaller than 75 gallons. They should also never be introduced to an aquarium that is less than at a year old as it usually takes that long to get a really good population of pods, that is unless you want to spend a fortune on pods ever week or so.

Now that being said if its eating Processed foods I personally wouldn't put one in anything smaller than maybe a 24 gallon. But I know someone who has a pair in a 12 gallon Nano and they are happy enough to be spawning periodically.

 

I put one in my 46 at only 3-4 months.

 

I had one before and everything seemed fine and then it was dead one day. So unless my CBS caught it, it starved. Just talking from my experience.

 

You would have know way before it died if it was starving. When healthy they are very ROUND and robust. If starving you can almost see their bones, and they get rather SQUARE looking.

Like I said its not the easiest thing to do and you have to start with a really healthy one which sometimes isn't the easiest thing to do. You have to resist taking the skinny ones and thinking that maybe you can convert it and save it because most of the time if they are skinny they have one fin on deaths door step.

But with time and patience it can be done and you will end up with a fish that has a ton of Character and is what I consider one of the prettiest fish available.

 

I found another picture of my Spotted Mandarin and thought maybe someone would be
interested in seeing it. It is allot clearer and shows what a fat little girl she is.