Jeffro's 50 g build.

[animalmaster6]

Possum wrasse

[19jeffro83]

Ora spotted mandarin male! Pics in a few.

[animalmaster6]

Nice!

[19jeffro83]

He's cool but my female is a little nicer looking. He looks young yet kinda a round face. Not pointy like most mandarins. I'm also not 100% on the fact that it's a male. Maybe to young to tell.

Him and my female are already interacting with each other. Hope they pair.

[animalmaster6]

Hope they pair to jeffro!

[19jeffro83]

That's the idea! The lady at ORA said that he mite even teach her to eat pellets. I've not yet fed him but I'm pretty sure I can at least get to eat some frozen once he settles in.

 

Picked him up for just 40$ too!

[animalmaster6]

Nutrimar Ova seems to be their favorite.

[19jeffro83]

I think they're in love!

They started to follow each other around already!

[animalmaster6]

[19jeffro83]

I know how cool is that! Not even a half hour and they're hangin out already. They're just sitting together under a ledge now relaxing together.

[animalmaster6]

That's awesome, can't wait to see if they pair until tomorrow.

[19jeffro83]

I'll keep you posted.

[Twinn]

Looks good love all the pics on your build log.

[19jeffro83]

Things aren't good ): my older mandarin is attacking the new one. I separated them and put the new one in a separator. His dorsal fins are nipped up a bit. I think he'll be ok but I don't know what I'm gonna do. This stinks.

[19jeffro83]

Any advice to get them to get along?

[animalmaster6]

Arranging the rockwork is the only trick I know but in many tanks that doesn't work.

 

Stinks man

[19jeffro83]

Here's the little guy today. He's a little roughed up. I think he'll make it though.

I set up a 5 gal holding tank for him. Basic heater and in tank filter for flow as well as a little filtration.

 

I think I mite remove the older mandarin for a week or so. Then reintroduce in hopes it's not as territorial.

[animalmaster6]

Throw some Chaeto or other algae in the 5g holding tank.

 

He looks okay right now

[19jeffro83]

I don't have any ) ; I would tho. And all my rock has coral on it. The spill over from my tank isn't enough to keep It alive. Not sure what I'm going to do. I mite have to revive the biocube for him and a pipefish?

[animalmaster6]

Pipefish sounds good.

 

Go buy some Chaeto from your local fish store. That is key to their survival in a tank with no sand bed and no live rock.

[19jeffro83]

I'll pick some up tomorrow. I understand what your saying. I was planning on doing a small waterchang a day. Maybe like 1/4-1/2 gallon.

[animalmaster6]

Good. Once you get the Chaeto try to get as many pods from yourtank as possible into the holding tank. That's what mandarins do all day, hunt for pods.

[19jeffro83]

Yeah I know. The tank he's in was my pod culture for my first mandarin while I trained it to eat frozen. This ORA mandarin is like a zombie. Doesn't act like the wild caught one at all. It just sits there and does nothing. I know it's def a Little stressed from moving and the attacks on it. But I think it's inbred or something. The behavior between the two is so different. My wild caught almost instantly started to eat pods and check out it's new home. The only time the ORA specimen moved at all was when it was attacked.

[animalmaster6]

That doesn't sound like a mandarin at all

[19jeffro83]

What doesn't?