mandarin dragonet question

[meowzer]

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Originally Posted by Sparty059 http:///forum/thread/385672/mandarin-dragonet-question#post_3383760
Thanks! I'll see if I can find those. They sell them in stores or online or is it something you put together yourself? Also you feed from tongs? You don't thaw it and rinse it off and feed by just dropping it in from a cup or anything like that?
STORES??? What's a store? LOL I buy it online of course.....I do rinse, BUT the frozen scallops I don't...and I break off pieces and feed my anemones and some corals with the feeding tongs
a few weeks ago I had a piece of scallop on it and the LMB stole it...LOL....so now I just offer it to him.....ALSO even though I rinse the foods, in the larger mix, some pieces are big enough for me to pick up with the tongs
this is the food.....I buy a few bags at a time to make it worth the shipping....lasts me 4 months or so.....I buy 2 bags for large fish, and 2 small to medium....and mix them when I feed since I have a variety of sized fishies

 

[sparty059]

Interesting! I'll have to see if my lfs has that. I never feed my blenny anything really occasionally he will grab some mysis shrimp, but he usually sits around waiting for the formula pellets. Maybe I'll mix some scallops with the other fish food and split it for the two lmb and mandarin.

 

[meowzer]

Well I did not intentionally try to feed the lmb....Like I said he stole it ..HAHA...

 

[meowzer]

I use these in my big tank to reach everything I want to feed....once the fish got use to them...they all attack it...LOL...at firstthey ran from it

 

[sparty059]

I don't really have any food that would be useful with the tongs. I feed only frozen foods that are thawed out and pellets. I now feed seaweed to the tang. But what else would you use the tongs for?

 

[meowzer]

I buy the frozen bay scallops from Walmart ($5)...and feed pieces to my anemones and my corals....and the LMB LOL.....Some of the foods in the bags I buy have small chunks of squid...I can use the tongs for them too....

 

[sparty059]

Since my Mandarin is in my Refugium I have to check him out during the night. Well, must to my surprise he looks rather FAT! Last night I was looking all over for him behind rock, behind the chaeto, everywhere and couldn't find him! I decided to look off the sandbed of the tank and found him hoovering around the mid/top section of the tank eating away. He has pretty much diminished my copepod source. Before he came in I could see specs all over the glass, on the sandbed, pretty much everywhere. As I said, it was thriving. He put my copepods expectations to shame! So today I'm going to have to run to the LFS and buy some and reseed in the copepod condo's that I build. Hopefully I built it well enough that it'll help them populate. But aside from that, he seems to be looking fat and well so that's a plus!

 

[tur4k]

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Originally Posted by Sparty059 http:///forum/thread/385672/mandarin-dragonet-question#post_3383352
Also, I don't have any type of cover for my fuge... are mandarin's known to jump? If they are I will be getting a top on my way home from the office today.
My first Mandarin jumped out and got wedged in the small gap between my hood and my tank. I put a piece of egg crate along that side to cover the gap after finding him dried up in there.