WTB: trained mandarin
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ryangrieder
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how do you train a fish to eat frozen? lol. my mandarin has been eating frozen for over a year. actually every mandarin ive had ate frozen. its not hard to do it yourself. just inject frozen food near him at first and he will get the picture. and if they dont want to then they dont want to. feed it pods like its natural diet.
would you like me to train you to eat frozen food instead of your natural diet? probably not.
would you like me to train you to eat frozen food instead of your natural diet? probably not.
Thanks, because that really helped out
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Had quite a few friends who watched their mandarins starve to death instead of eating anything other than copepods. How many mandarins have you had? In my short experience with them, I can safely say you are lucky since they all ate frozen. 
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If you need help training one lmk. I can lend you the feeding station i made to train mine as well. And for the record, I had to retrain mine after a stressful move to a new tank so even if it eats frozen in someone else's tank, there's no guarantee it will continue to do so in yours. Two other people have documented this. Good luck.
right from ora site
"All of ORA’s captive bred mandarins will accept a variety of prepared frozen and dry foods upon acclimation to their new tank."
http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dragonets/blue-mandarin.html
now do I win?
"All of ORA’s captive bred mandarins will accept a variety of prepared frozen and dry foods upon acclimation to their new tank."
http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dragonets/blue-mandarin.html
now do I win?
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ryangrieder
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Last swap they had a raffle for a mandarin eating everything! Maybe same for the next swap?!
Do I also win now?
Do I also win now?
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- Ronkonkoma, NY
PW has ORA mandarins
The ORA mandarins did not do well. From what I have heard, virtually all of them starved! I have not heard of one success story, but that does not mean they do not exist.
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there is a way to train them, but if you've already released them into your tank chances are your not gonna catch it to train it
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Just have the store u get them from feed and see if they eat my green mand eats like a champ bought from fishtown they had 3 and 2 where eating I should have bought both
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And why would you need to catch it to train it? Posting unhelpful advice is one thing but your advice is just wrong. To stbatnabas, don't catch them. You'll stress them out and then it'll be that much harder to train. Pm me if you need help. Im not a mandarin expert but ive trained a few. Good luck.
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Matt, he already bought them.
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