I researched a lot on the mandarine dragonet and figured with a 55gal tank, 80pnds of very live rock, and a full functioning Dsb, that a mandarine would survive in the tank, but 2 weeks later he died...I don't get it, usually I dont try to beat the odds with a fish but when I do, this happens...Its a shame that this is a popular fish but yet tends to starve in captivity...oh well, learned my lesson the hard way.
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Whats up with Mandarine?
- Thread starter oimate84
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I made the mistake of making the mandarin fish my first fish...2 weeks after i had my tank up...oops, however i got lucky..9months later he's still kicking...From what i have read via books and internet they are a species not ment for beginners...So ive been extremely lucky, and i love the little guy.... You might have to wait til the tank matures???
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get a couple shrimp, cleaners or peppermint, that will breed
regularly in your tank. my cleaners hatch hundreds of babies about every 10 days, i have tons of little shrimp always available to eat.
mine has been in my 55g for over a year now, and he is always fat and happy. he's the healthiest fish in my tank.
regularly in your tank. my cleaners hatch hundreds of babies about every 10 days, i have tons of little shrimp always available to eat.
mine has been in my 55g for over a year now, and he is always fat and happy. he's the healthiest fish in my tank.
Its hard to imagine that anybody would have to employ cyanide to catch a mandarin, although I suppose it could have been an incidental bycatch with other fish.
Was it fat or skinny when you got it? Sometimes its a long trip from the reef to your tank in situations that don't produce much to eat for a mandarin- so it could have been somehwat starved when you got it...
Was it fat or skinny when you got it? Sometimes its a long trip from the reef to your tank in situations that don't produce much to eat for a mandarin- so it could have been somehwat starved when you got it...
Matt,
I respectfully disagree friend.
My tank is very mature and there are sooo many copepods that there are tons of them floating around my tank. My mandarin ate his heart out but his body would not absorb the nutritional content. He just withered and died.
I later found other people that have had questionable dealings with the same store and we have come to the conclusion that he was cyanide caught.
I am not very knowledgable about fish catching practices but I do know that some BASTARDS out there do use cyanide to catch fish and I am absolutley sure that there are fish out there that are killed because of this brutal act that werent the intended "target".
I respectfully disagree friend.
My tank is very mature and there are sooo many copepods that there are tons of them floating around my tank. My mandarin ate his heart out but his body would not absorb the nutritional content. He just withered and died.
I later found other people that have had questionable dealings with the same store and we have come to the conclusion that he was cyanide caught.
I am not very knowledgable about fish catching practices but I do know that some BASTARDS out there do use cyanide to catch fish and I am absolutley sure that there are fish out there that are killed because of this brutal act that werent the intended "target".
Mandarins are not caught with cyanide, as was mentioned by various people above.
If yours ate, but was thin, it could have had internal parasites. Metronidozole in his food (gut-loaded gammarus or pods) might have helped.
There are lots of reef creatures that die from cyanide use, that were not "intended targets" but until enough people get pissed off enough, it's not going to change.
Support dealers who buy and sell ethically collected specimens.
Jenn
If yours ate, but was thin, it could have had internal parasites. Metronidozole in his food (gut-loaded gammarus or pods) might have helped.
There are lots of reef creatures that die from cyanide use, that were not "intended targets" but until enough people get pissed off enough, it's not going to change.
Support dealers who buy and sell ethically collected specimens.
Jenn
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