Since converting from reef to FO setup had the courage to get this fish.Known to be difficult to feed.Anyone have this fish? Can suggest where to get live food for it. Been trying BBS but no luck.It's still in quarantine tank and anyway redo main tank with 4" DSB and rearrange liverock so have some NH4 spike. Not likely to introduce until water parameter stablise. Hope anyone can help.
Since converting from reef to FO setup had the courage to get this fish.Known to be difficult to feed.Anyone have this fish? Can suggest where to get live food for it. Been trying BBS but no luck.It's still in quarantine tank and anyway redo main tank with 4" DSB and rearrange liverock so have some NH4 spike. Not likely to introduce until water parameter stablise. Hope anyone can help.
Since converting from reef to FO setup had the courage to get this fish.Known to be difficult to feed.Anyone have this fish? Can suggest where to get live food for it. Been trying BBS but no luck.It's still in quarantine tank and anyway redo main tank with 4" DSB and rearrange liverock so have some NH4 spike. Not likely to introduce until water parameter stablise. Hope anyone can help.
Since converting from reef to FO setup had the courage to get this fish.Known to be difficult to feed.Anyone have this fish? Can suggest where to get live food for it. Been trying BBS but no luck.It's still in quarantine tank and anyway redo main tank with 4" DSB and rearrange liverock so have some NH4 spike. Not likely to introduce until water parameter stablise. Hope anyone can help.
oh no.....ur mandarin is gonna destroy ur dsb. ur mandarin would prolly eat very pod/critter there is in ur dsb system which ultimately will crash.unless u hv a refugium n can sustain both the dsb n mandarin.
how abt trading it back for something else???
Acroporids and Tridacnids
pls dun get it.. chances are, u might not be able to provide the food that it strives on.. unless your tank is reef setup.. unless u might be able to train it to eat brine shrimps... []
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Manderins need a large tank, as the eat copepods on the live rock..
This is aparantly all they will eat..
A very pretty fish, but very hard to keep..
James
Currently keeping many wild betta species and other anabantoids.
Wow, 3 moderators replying. I guess ur right.Anyway my previous reef setup is almost depleted of those critters already when tank was infested by small crabs and mantis shrimp.Now can safely say my tank is crab free when I decide to immersed rock by rock in very high salt solution I prepared in a pail. Every creature ran out but only crush the crabs and return the rest to the main tank.So me have not enuff copepods for the mandarin really.
Though out of topic but when I ran my sump on itself- meaning the return pump goes back to the sump first partition, my sump crash.Leaving a cloudy and bad odour water. I did it bcoz decide not use the sump anymore and temporarily keep the beneficial bacteria alive until I can use it to seed the DSB. I'm using wet/dry filter + dsb + liverock + venturi skimmer powered by an otto internal filter. It shows how important the liverock is I guess. I got over 30kg of liverock b4. Now left ard 20kg the rest gave away.
So I guess have to let go the fish.Maybe release in one of the bay in Jurong Island where I work.
what fish are u releasing??
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Mantis shrimp...
In the future i will be setting up a 2ft acrylic tank for one..
They are very intresting, how they litterally smash their food to peices..
James
Currently keeping many wild betta species and other anabantoids.
U can feed ya Mandarin frozen brine shrimp or live brine shrimp from pet mart....
Dun seem to like Mysid shrimp...
I had kept mine for almost 1.5 yrs liao....feeding her on Frozen brine shrimp....but my mandarin is in my sea horse tank hence no boisterous fishies ard to disturb her feeding time....
fyi
Hey Lio,
you keeping 'horses?!? must really learn from u one day - mind teaching me the ropes?Do yours take frozen food?
Regards,
Hong Yee
Hi Hong Yee...
Yup I do have a sea horse tank...but I must honestly admit that I do not really follow the parameters recommended by some sites....
too complicated to me...lah...
However,all my seahorses so far under my care are still happily surviving since I started the tank think this Jan....
I have 4 and 3 of them eat frozen mysid shrimps while only 1 of them...my prettiest seahorse eats live shrimps...u koe the fresh water type? Sometimes I hand feed it by showing her the shrimp and bringing it to the top of the tank where she will be anxiously waiting...kinda cute...
Cun help but to think that some seahorses kinda koe how to read ya body lang...and can sometimes communicate wif ya....
Pardon me if i m sounding way off....
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Hi
Since we are talking about seahorses,
anyone here knows how to adapt seahorses to frozen foods...
Heard that wild caught ones have lots of difficulty with prepared foods...
Phang
Phang,
one way that i can think of is to mix it with live food and
gradually cutting down on live food..
James,
yes.. it is interesting to keep mantis shrimp smashing the food to pieces.. pistol shrimps acts the same way.. anyway.. i dun recommend them.. firstly, predatory. Secondly, might smash through a thin plastic container or glass..[
saw a documentary last nite "weird nature".. showed how pistol and mantis shrimps feed.. james, if u are reading this.. hear this.. the force that mantis shrimps shoots out the pincers/claws (dun know what it is called) is equivalent to that of a .22 caliber.. that is powerful!!!!
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Hi,
I heard stories of how full sized Mantis Shrimps managed to break though aquarium glass...
BTW, those are smashers.... Mantis Shrimps also come as spearers.. those with claws that grapped onto live fishes....
Yeah, seen the documentary yesterday.Very powerful claws they have, pistol and mantis shrimp.Very interesting.
Kelvin, yep i knew that!!
Thats why i will be keeping one in an acrylic tank! And keeping my hands Well Out!
Remember though, there are 2 types of Mantis..the "spearing/grabbing" type and the "smashing" type..
The smashing ones are the ones that are dangorous to glass!
James
Currently keeping many wild betta species and other anabantoids.
Freshwater shrimp - you mean the glass shrimp that we buy at a lot for $1? it's quite big isn't it? I'm now hatching BBS to feed my 3 gorgonians (man, I'm in LOVE with these! [
Eh Lio, you'd better not let your better half read that posting about your seahorse being cute, she might try to kill it with lipstick or something.
Anyway, regarding gorgonians (sea fans/sea whips), does anyone have any success tips to share regarding their positioning and feeding? I've so far read that there are photosynthetic types and predatory types, and the latter should be placed in darker areas to prevent algae from running over. Also placed them with rather moderate flow so that the whips move slightly - is this ok? I seriously dunno what to feed these guys, other than BBS.
Regards,
Hong Yee
p.s. Lio, I'd love to hear more about your seahorses - do me a favour and post pics and more info?
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