Whatsize aquarium for green mandarin3/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I love it when someone with a 20 gallon reef tank and a 10 gallon species tank offers opinions about something with no experience. Long term success is greater than one year. But if you keep them in a species only tank, you can probably sustain them in the short run. All mandarins will eat frozen mysis, but the problem is the quantity that they get since they are poor hunters and are grazers. Ok, well you can listen to my experience or just go ahead and do it. These two are so awesome together, sleeping together at night, etc. If it's questionable then I'd rather skip it though. My concern was mostly about compatibility between the different dragonets. Not long ago I was late for the morning feeding and the male was already waiting at the rock. They even know to come to a certain rock where I put the food using a Kent SeaSquirt. My big male arrived fairly skinny and is now so fat that I am wondering about cutting back on the enriching. Right now they're eating mostly Super Selco enriched bloodworms, mysids, prawn eggs, decapsulated brine cysts, etc. With those resources and a separate small system it's totally possible to train them onto frozen. I rehomed the 2 extra males and now have 1 female and 1 male dragonet. I actually did that with 4 different dragonets over the last 6 weeks because I had such a hard time finding a female. I've spent several weeks and quite a bit of resources (live mysids, live brine, etc) to train my dragonets to accept frozen food. Pod population seems to be fluctuating and influenced by more than just by fish predation. You know like I wouldn't get a cat hoping it could sustain itself from what it catches in the backyard (and we have several acres of backyard. Oh goodness I wouldn't feel comfortable relying on pod population to sustain my fish. ![]()
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