CleverBs
Aquarium Advice Addict
Were would the best place be to get a true ORA Green mandarin?
I agree they are amazing little creatures and hope he does well during our training. I'm going to try to get him to feed out of a feeding station. Something like a short PVC tube with a cap on the back that he will be able to go into and eat away from the other fish.Beautiful fish. Hope to have one someday.
I found shutting off all the water flow and direct feeding with a turkey baster to be the best method of weaning onto frozen. I managed to get my mandy and my scooter to eat that way. But it did take a month each for them to be switched over and luckily I had enough pods in my tank to tide them over til then.
Good luck!
ps.- did you ask to see the fish eat at the store? I ALWAYS do that, even with regular "easy" fish. Good habit to get into.
I decided to see if I can train a Green mandarin to eat prepfoods first. So I got a large one that looks extremely healthy, and hes fat. I will keep him in his own 25g Tank for awhile to get him to eat. Its an established-ish reef tank then once hes eating well ill move him to my 75g reef. I have gotten scooters to eat without a problem and helped my buddy get his target mandarin to eat. this will be my first Blue mandarin to get to eat. Heres a little Picture of him while he drip acclimates
Hows the mandarin?
Are you talking about raising them to adults or just gut loading them as babies?