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Originally Posted by naesco
Apologies accepted. Turbo charge your tank by over feeding live phytoplankton daily with the pumps off for an hour or so.
Get a lfs to order an aquacultured mandarin and when it arrives and you see it eating other foods buy it. Avoid other fish that also prey on pods. Your mandarin will soon devour all the pods in your tank.
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I had luck feeding my Mandarins Lobster eggs...from ocean nutrition...hard to get though...at least it was when i had my tank. Of course thats not all that was fed but they like it.
Also, try not to get one unless you can see it eat..and i mean more than one type of food. I bought mine after I saw them eat three or four kinds of food...including pellets. Again though, this was really before captive bred mandarins were available.
But I kept them alive for 4 years, I also used lobster eggs to get my Moorish idol eating other food...though he was in the qt tank for almost 4 months.
If you are relying on "buying" pods the tigger pods are not always the best...and it gets mighty expensive if you cannot get them onto something else.
Good Luck though, everyone always love looking at my mandarins... curiously they liked asterina starfish as well...the green spotted anyways...so that might be something to introduce in a QT tank and see if they take to them.
http://www.oceannutrition.eu/product...ct=lobstereggs
those. well worth the hassle to get them. Actually good to get any finicky eater....well eating..