Mandarin Goby

[Gresham]

Originally Posted by amcarrig

I have seen many starve in established tanks as well, particularly in mine! I've tried about 4 times with different types of dragonettes with the same results. I won't try keeping them again as they require far too much attention than I'm willing to provide to any fish.

Thanks for giving me an openning

We've had excellent success with mandarins feeding on Arcti-Pods, a dead concentrate of arctic copepods. In my trials, ~80% of fresh mandarins ate it. The problem with mandarins (dragonettes) is that since they need to eat so often, they tend to get to the hobbyist all ready starved to the point where they won't live long, even if fed. A healthy mandarin shouldn't have the backbone visiable at all.

[amcarrig]

Originally Posted by Gresham

Thanks for giving me an openning

Any time Gresham

I'm not surprised that you've kept dragonettes well fed with that product seeing as I use it myself and all of the fish go nuts over it.

[Gresham]

If I can get my videos editted down, I can show some mandarins eating it

[amcarrig]

Do you have to edit them to load them into a site such as Photobucket?

[apollo'sowner]

I have heard much locally about the Tiger Pods in a bottle. They will keep an average sized mandarin well fed for a month. I haven't tryed it myself an don't have a dragonet, but was considering one. The tiger Pods are $20 a bottle so once a month would be an extra expense I can wait on right now.