Dragonette

does not look like you have any live rock in there. How are you going to keep the mandarin alive? They require lots of copepods, unless they eat a healthy and balance diet of frozen food offered many times per day.

It is in a sea horse tank...feedings seem redundant.

Well theres about 30 pounds of liverock and sand, and we have a fuge with tons of pods. Our mandarin is very healthy, and its not the first one we've ever had. Hes doing just fine thank you. How can you even say that it looks like we don't have enough liverock, I took this pic from the corner of the tank.

It's the apparence of it. I can't see any other live rock in there, not even from the reflection in the glass. It just looked that way and I have no way to know otherwise from that pic. Good to know he's got plenty of food! so many just starve to death.

yeah its just the bad angle, but he has plenty of rock. I've also found him eating the seahorse shrimp! Its great b/c he cleans up after them. They are really messy fish lol. Fist one I've ever had that will eat frozen. Also since my seahorses are tankbreed they eat frozen aswell. Didn't believe the guy at the LPS, but after seeing it myself I'm amazed!

wow, that's really cool that your seahorses eat frozen food. I think mandarin will eat frozen food more than people imagine. My green mandarin (my first one) is also eating frozen food. I went to a local store and the man there had many mandarins and they all eated frozen food. I was amazed since some pet stores can't get them to eat anything. The difference was a mandarin dedicated tank and live rock. most other store put mandarin in empty tank with other fish.

Yeah I find people and LPS make that mistake allot. Your see like a clown fish a tang and a mandarin in the same tank, and they wonder how they die? lol

ive seen that on NR though, in a 20 gal tank

What are you talking about? Yeah I have also seen this type of fish before on NR, but are you saying someone stole my pic? Have you seen this pic before on NR?