Mandarin Dragonet

[weazil]

I've been searching and everything I find basically says leave these fish in the wild, or they will die. I would really like to see if I can get a setup able to support one.
Can anyone tell me what all I would need in my 92 to pull it off, or any suggestions, thoughts, ideas. I'm very curious but I don't want to kill this beutiful fish.

 

[pufferlover]

Weazil; I have tried and tried to keep those fish and had luck with only one that lived 5 years all others were a matter of months at the longest. Once read one needs about 135 pounds of live rock to survive. Altho all mine ate live and frozen brine plus blackworms they just (if kept with other fish) never got their share of food (very slow eaters so they lose out in race for food). The one that lived so long was in a small 15 gal tank with a small Longnose Hawk for most of its life after I bought it from lfs going out of business that had it in their display reef tank for a year or so.

 

[jimi]

If you really want to try set up your 92 with a dsb and load it with quality live rock. Let it run for about four months then buy a small mandarin not a jumbo and you should have a chance.