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02-12-2006, 11:39 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: the valley, CA Age: 23
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|  green mandarin curiousity
when i first got into the hobby a year and a half back i was amazed by the beauty of marine creatures and aquascapes. i have recreated as much as i can over the last year in my 50gal reef. over the recent months i have been searching the lfs for a green mandarin of perfect health and yesterday i found and purchased one. She is of great beauty and appears to be eating critters out of the sand and rocks but is only occupying one area of my tank. is this normal for a captive mandarin? should she be more active? i know these are difficult creatures that require much care since they rarely partake in frozen food. has anyone had luck that they could share, this is a beautiful specimen that i would hate to see deminish.
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50 gallon reef tank. coralife 36 in 96w 10,000 k/96w actinic/ lunar lights, 40lr, 4inches ls, RemoraAquaC skimmer, closed loop flow, refugium, oscellaris clown, bluegreen reef chromis, green mandarin,turbo snails/reef crabs, sand sifting stars, corals: blue striped mushrooms, toadstool mushroom,yellowgreen cup, purple gorgonian, greenblue pipe organ, favites brain, torch, frogspawn, sebae anemone.
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02-12-2006, 11:57 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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You can tell whether it's a male or female on the top dorsal fin. If it's long and pointy, it's a male. If there is not pointed dorsal, it's a female.
The mandarin might be staying on one side because it found a goldmine of pods. Eventually, you will see it wander on other areas of the tank. The only things you need to do to keep it in good health, is having good water params, and plenty of copepods. If you are not running a refugium, I highly recommend a lot of rockwork, so pods can be able to hide and reproduce. Or else, you will find yourself buying them quite often. By far, I have noticed that this is the best specimen to enhance your reef!
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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02-12-2006, 12:13 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: the valley, CA Age: 23
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i agree rickzter they are amazing in detail and variations. it is a female by the way, pretty simple to distinguish. about the pods i am looking into ocean pods to stock my refugium, is this a good product? any one know
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02-12-2006, 12:38 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump. | |
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02-12-2006, 03:02 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: jonesboro, arkansas Age: 29
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i've had two of them. both of them lasted more than a month and then died suddenly. one of them got something that looked like ick, it was dead the next day. the other one showed no symptoms it just died one day. both of mine ate frozen food and could be seen eating pods off the rocks all day. the point is for some reason these fish can die suddenly for no apparent reason so dont be discouraged if it dies.
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125 gallon glass. 3 10k 250w metal halides, 1 4ft 110w vho actinic. who knows how much live rock. yellow tang, domino, cinnamon clown, percula clown, flame angel,peppermint shrimp, camel shrimp, skunk shrimp, a few turbo snails, lots of hermit crabs, leather coral, branching frogspawn, mushrooms, too much xenia, and several different zoo's and button polyps | |
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02-22-2006, 01:17 AM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone |
good luck with the dragonet. i've always wanted to attempt the husbandry of this species, i'll be following this thread to peer in on your trials and tribulations. cheers. _________  | |
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03-14-2006, 09:46 AM
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| | Pajama Cardinal
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ive had luck with mine i had one for a year and a half he ate bloodworms and brine shrimp but a wrasse i had gotten started taken chunks out of his fins and he dissapeared. i have since gotten rid of the wrasse and have gotten antoher mandarin and this one also is taking very well to bloodworms. if you get one you can try pod piles small pieces of live rock rubble in the corners and back of the tank so the pods have a safe place to hide and reproduce or try live brine shrimp a lot of lfg sell them. i got lucky where both have taken frozen food though where some dont _________ karla  75 gall, 80 lbs sand, 110 lb lr, 10k pcs, atinics, emperor 400, prizm skimmer, hagen and maxi jet powerheads | |
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03-14-2006, 11:58 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 50
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If you don't have a refugium you may want to buy some tiger pods and place some chaetomorpha macroalgae in you tank with them. Pods love to live in it and hopefully you can start a reproducing colony of them to keep your mandarin in constant supply. When I harvest my chaetomorpha from my fuge I soak it in FW for about 30 seconds and up to 100 or so pods leave the algae and I place them back into the fuge. _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
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