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08-20-2011, 01:22 AM
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You could learn it to eat frozen shrimps, but it is hard and once it learned still you should always turn off your powerheads and spot feed it because they are really slow.
"Samw" has one in his 40 gallon tank,it is doing great and he dont feed frozen food his tank! you could ask him. 
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08-20-2011, 01:23 AM
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I have bought a few of them that didnt eat prepared food and weaned them onto prep in QT, once thats done there the same as any other fish... If you do not attempt this and try to sustain them on pods they are far harder to maintain.
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08-20-2011, 01:35 AM
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As far as frozen foods go, I have had the best luck using Hikari frozen mysis while working with mandarins. It is quite a bit smaller than PE mysis and more substantial than frozen pods/rotifers. It is getting harder and harder to find however. Might have to shop around for it.
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08-20-2011, 06:02 AM
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08-20-2011, 06:04 AM
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Thanks for the advice everyone! I will go and take a look at him tomorrow and try and find some of the food you have been talking about! Thanks!
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08-20-2011, 10:50 AM
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I have two and do not train them. I have pods in the refugium. They are both fat and one of them goes nuts with NLS pellets!
I feed my tanks with mysis shrimps, flakes, roe, NLS pellets, and nori.
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08-20-2011, 01:00 PM
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I have a mandarin , alone, in a twenty. She is eating I am sure as she is fat. The tank has no competition so any pods are hers. I also use a HOB fuge. O drop in NLS finicky pellets and although I have yet to actually see her consume them, she definitely gets excited when pellets float around c Good luck. Do more research and choose wisely.
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08-20-2011, 06:30 PM
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My first mandarin is by far the most expensive fish that I have ever owned. My second one cost me less than $20. Lessons learned I guess.
There are a couple of questions that you need to ask yourself. 1. If you end up with a Mandarin that you can't train, are you willing/able to sustain him on pods? 2. If you do manage to train him, you will still need to target feed him. Do you have the time for this? I trained both my Mandarins to eat frozen food, but in the end I just left them to fend for themselves. Ive had the first one for a couple of years and the second one for a couple of months. There are more than enough pods in my tank for both of them. - Brad
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