Pinrod Urkish Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 It probly helped that I got my dragonet as my first fish so she didn't have to compete for food. Not now she's almost as agressive as the clown fish, almost Link to comment
bobioden Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Originally posted by Pinrod Urkish It probly helped that I got my dragonet as my first fish so she didn't have to compete for food. Not now she's almost as agressive as the clown fish, almost Since when is a clown fish agressive?? Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 when it eats. Link to comment
renichms Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Clownfish are "aggressive" eaters...mine stays at the top while I feed the tank and snatches anything and everything that fits in its mouth. It has even managed to snatch food from a peppermint shrimp, and peppermint shrimp are NOT bashful or timid when it comes to eating. RN Link to comment
ifynanceu Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 when they are the biggest fish in the tank too! they definately don't like other fish around their hosts Link to comment
Kogut Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 My true perc competes w/ the pygmy angel for food. They're best friends, but when it's feeding time....... Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted February 15, 2005 Author Share Posted February 15, 2005 My perc has this cool rock as it's host, abd shares it with the cleaner wrasse, best of buds but feeding brings out the worst in fish, except my dragonett, which isn't what this thread is about. I wonder how many other folks have funny feeding tales? Link to comment
OscarGuyGoneNano Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I think the trick to dragonetts eating prepared food is luck more than anything. I've seen some that won’t touch anything prepared then there are freaks like mine that I have seen eating flake. It just depends on the fish. Link to comment
BKtomodachi Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 You got it oscar. But a little patience and repeated trial and error could help too. Link to comment
Hyshnari Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I rescued 2 starving mandarins from an LFS a while ago (with the stipulation that I'd only hold on to the mandarins until they grew more copepods in their display tank). The male died immediately overnight (he was lying on the substrate to begin with), and the female was fed on newly hatched baby brine to try and save her. She eventually took to cyclopeeze. These weren't the spotted mandarins, which, supposedly, take to dead foods easier. Anyway, the bottom line is, the cyclopeeze /sustained/ her, but she simply wasn't eating /enough/ of it. She was still just as skinny when she got back to the LFS about 3 months later, but at least she was /alive/. So my opinion -- mandarins NEED live copepods. Dead food should be considered a supplement. If you're having success feeding your mandarin frozen, that's great, but /please please please/ make sure they get some good 'ol live copepods at least once in a while. Or use frozen as a supplement. Mandarins eating frozen are the exception, not the rule. -Jennifer Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Wow a responsible reefer. I like it. Well Jen of the Reef (that's your new name) I lied I do have live rock and cerpula. I have it set up like a shield for copods so they may increase w/o disturbance. Every so often I catch a glimpse of my mandarin catching a pod and when I clean out my filters I find more. But that being said for your benifit, the Marine cuisine is full of little shrimpies that same size as pods and the rest is eyeballs from other sea creatures (the eyeball has the most protein). So what you wonder? me too? Well I had this Idea for a ten gallon tank: live sand and rubble liverock covering the entire bottom (plus some more for aquascaping) then instead of corals fill the tanks with different kinds of algae. Then use a plant bulb instead of accentics. A little power head then throw in a blue Mandarin. Think it would work? Just a thought Link to comment
willgr1 Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 your idea sounds exactly like a refugarium with a marndarin in it Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Sure why not, but will it work? Link to comment
666 Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 not in a ten gallon tank. Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Thirity, then? Link to comment
renichms Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 It'll work in a ten gallon. Just be sure to add a 50 gallon refugium with 100 pounds live rock. RN Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 Just curious, Link to comment
renichms Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Would a mandarin eat freshly hatched peppermint shrimp or cerith snail larvae? I think they're about the size of pods and fairly easy to catch. RN Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 Sounds too complicated, I've heard about of all these freshly hatched this and that, but it all sounded too complicated. Go with the Marine Cuisine, nothings easier to catch than dead squid n' shrimp meel. Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 Some where on ReefCentral.com theres and article about this person who has like four Mandarins in a 100 gal tnak that eat pellets. I tried to find the link but to no avail. Could some one verify for me? Link to comment
bigbenji Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 seacrop has something called seapods. It bottled copepods for your mandarins and refugium. It's $20 a bottle, but it should get things started. Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 Never heard of it, Sounds cool, Where do you find it? and do you have a pic? Link to comment
qwertyuiop Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 http://seacrop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?...ategory_Code=DG hope this helps... Link to comment
renichms Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Another site that sells copepods, amphipods and all sorts of little critters: http://aquaculturestore.com/swinverts.html Their stuff got my tanks seeded FAST. RN Link to comment
Pinrod Urkish Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Well I just ordered some fidler crabs for my dragon wrasse, and some amphiods should be here tomarow Link to comment
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