mandarin

treble

treble

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Says in your pro-file "5 gallon" take it back. Needs established large tank. They love to munch on LR, and I have seen some waste away in a 60 gallon with 70lbs. of LR.
 
lettheirberock

lettheirberock

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mandarin's require a large population of coepods to survive.an established tank is a must! some have had success feeding flake or other foods,but this is a gamble.this fish will most likely starve to death.try to take it back for some store credit.
 
saltylake

saltylake

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those are animals that aren't very sucessful in any tanks. They need well established tanks that are full of copepods. I would return the animal and buy a goby. You don't want to see such a beautiful animal like a madarin dragonette die due to the fact that you didn't have enough live rock to provide it with sufficent food.
 
byrself

byrself

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a 5 gallon tank is way too small. please take fish back or it will surely die. i have one in a 20, but i also have copepods breeding in another tank. they need much larger tanks with as much live rock as you can provide. otherwise they will starve to death. <img src="graemlins//dead.gif" border="0" alt="[dead]" />
 
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