Cheap Mandarins

[Canuckgod420]

i picked up 2 yesterday, they started picking at the rocks right away.

[cwatkins]

Anybody see how many they had today? I'm for sure stopping by tomorrow to pick one up.

Canuckgod420, any sign of them eating traditional foods?

[Mandosh]

Looked like there was about 15-20 left at 5ish

[apexifd]

do spend your time picking the right fish.. my first one die and I pick up another one today... hoping it will make it..

they probably sold so many of them in the last few days, the guy just ask me if I want to pick and net my own fish... ha... I wish I could have done that on my first fish. Might be able to pick a healthier fish.

[eguld]

I am looking for a pair of mandarins. I know this might seem cruel but could I put two of them in a 5.5G tank while I try and train them?

Ultimately they would go in my RSM 250 that has about 180 lbs of rock and I have 64oz of reef pods arriving on Thursday.

Also does anyone know if mandarins are particularly sensitive to higher temps, 82-84 degrees?

[dankent]

optimal temps for them would be 72F - 82F

[eguld]

Just curios but it is day 5 they have been at the lfs, aren't they pretty much goners already?

I mean this is a really hard species to bring back to health.

[sbcam]

Mine and my friends are both still alive and completly healthy. Eating pellets no problem since day one!

[KPG007]

I bought two and both would only eat pods. eventually one died, but the other one is fine. I think he might grab the odd brine shrimp I feed, but its tough to say as I rarely ever see him.

[ScubaSteve]

Mine was alive and healthy for the longest time. I had tons of pods (and flatworms) at the time, so he was a big fast mandarin. Unfortunately, my longnose butterfly came down with about every disease in the book at once in March and with working 18 hour days back then I couldn't do much to save it. The mandarin ended up picking up something from the butterfly during this ordeal and perished a few days later.