Mandarin dragonets

[daniella3d]

Mine eat fish roe (caplan eggs Masago) the oranges eggs that we find on sushi. They also eat live white worms (which they go nuts for) and Hikari frozen bloodworms. With this diet and the pods, they are happy and fat.

If you can find a white worms culture locally, this is your best bet to keep a madarin alive and fat. Not the type of diet that you can feed the fish entirely on but they are very rich in protein and fat so they are a good add up to their diet.

My copperband also go nuts for them, as well as my anoying foxface.

Originally Posted by windcoast reefs

Hey everybody,

I just went to my LFS and saw a mandarin dragonet. I know that they are hard to keep and have specific food requirements, but do they only copepods? If they do, i don't think i would have a large enough setup to sustain it ( 50 gallon with 20 gallon sump). Anyone have any thought? Please make this constructive!