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Old 03-24-2014, 11:53 AM
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Default anyone experience with ruby red dragonet?

I have heard people having success with them in nano tanks. Anything larger and they just get lost I think.

If your tank is well established and on the smaller side with no pod competitors you should be fine with 1, or if you know it's a pair. I had some red and white ones eating cyclopeeze.


These fish are a craze right now in Toronto. I believe only the 2nd time they have seen them come in, and I keep seeing more and more coming.

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Old 03-24-2014, 03:19 PM
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Pretty sure we will be seeing this fish more often great looking fish I want one for my nano.how much are people paying for this fish anyone?
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Old 03-24-2014, 03:49 PM
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I had a couple of males for a few days. Once I realized they were 2 males, I sold one and a day later my remaining male jumped.

Great while I had them, the LFS had them feeding on brine shrimp before they were for sale.

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Pretty sure we will be seeing this fish more often great looking fish I want one for my nano.how much are people paying for this fish anyone?
I've heard as much as $109 lately but I paid $60 for mine.
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I had one too, he was eating brine and Mysis. They don't seem to be as picky as mandarins. Mine went carpet surfing as well... with a plastic lid on, how it happened is past me.


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I had a couple of males for a few days. Once I realized they were 2 males, I sold one and a day later my remaining male jumped.

Great while I had them, the LFS had them feeding on brine shrimp before they were for sale.



I've heard as much as $109 lately but I paid $60 for mine.
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Two small for a big tank , not enough food for a little tank ..
You judge but I think there a waste of money .
The ones iv been seeing are as big as a quarter maybe
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Old 12-03-2014, 01:43 AM
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I have had a female (I believe) for approx 5 weeks. She is in QT, seeded with liverock and sand from our DT. She is doing really well eating frozen brine. She is pretty small about 1 1/2 inches. I am having troubles finding a lot of info on the Morley and I am wondering if anyone knows how big she will get. I am pretty shocked at the price everyone is saying, I think I paid like $40 for her.she is very beautiful but the biggest chicken I have ever met.
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Old 12-03-2014, 03:53 AM
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Had mine for about 2 months in a 125gallon. All is well but I have plenty of pods
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Old thread revival! I'm totally in on this fun!

I had one too. He was in my Biocube. He was awesome. He was way cooler than the other fishes and was so rare that none of the other fishes had ever heard of him - an aquatic hipster if you will.

He was majestic. In fact, so majestic he felt that he should rule skies as well as the sea, and being a fish hipster he felt he was too cool for the water because everyone else was doing it... so one day he took off for open air, a flying streak of brilliant red light like one of Zeus' lightning bolts thrown from heaven. He flew through the air with all the majesty of a bald eagle!

...Then SPLAT! he crashed right into the fish guard I had put in place to prevent his escape into the dark, pump impeller-infested waters of the dreaded rear chamber. But, like I said, this fish was majestic... so majestic that through sheer will he rejected the notion of returning to his former life in the water and instead levitated like a fishy reverse-Jesus who could walk on air instead of water (read: stuck to the fish guard employed specifically to prevent his untimely demise)...

...and there he remained plastered to the fish guard, his holy body slime keeping him firmly secured in a cruciform position several inches above the water where... he sadly died a slow, ironic death like the fish-hipster he was...

RIP, you beautiful bastard
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Old 12-03-2014, 05:14 AM
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Same story here - had two. After about two weeks of trying to get them to eat (they didn't even want to eat pods it seemed at first) they both jumped through an opening of about only one inch. I liked them so much I went and bought 2 more. Same thing again. So as beautiful as they are, I will never try keeping them again.
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Old 12-03-2014, 02:22 AM
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Pretty sure we will be seeing this fish more often great looking fish I want one for my nano.how much are people paying for this fish anyone?
Hey Ryan check out the king ed they bring this fish sometimes
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