Mandarinfish

[sheni_angel]

These are soo cool! I'd like to hear from owners out there, are they hard to care for? <img src="graemlins//urrr.gif" border="0" alt="[urrr]" />

 

[ksauerb322]

I've had my mandarine for a little over a year, no problems here.

 

[peasly1]

you should have a dsb w / lots of critters or sad to say the fish will starve, very few take to live or frozen brine

 

[sheni_angel]

I'm new at all this. What's a dsb? What kinds of critters do they eat and do they need to be in there at all times?

 

[ebeckels]

deep sand bed 4inches or more of LS (do a search and u'll find a ton of info) They copepods...they are small little animals. They are usually hitchikers on LR or LS.

 

[sheni_angel]

Thanks so much!!

 

[fshhub]

mandarins are a beautiful fish and not relatively hard to care for, as long as the aquarium has a really good pod population, which normally means having a good sand bed, and some good live rock, and letting your tank breed pods for a while(like about a year) b4 getting one, 1 mandarin can dessimate a pod population fast, and most will not take to feeding, and to help out a bit more, in the archives forum, ther is a thread called slang assistance, which i posted back in december of 01, which has a good many terms that we use here, youmay want to look it over there are way too many to memorize, but if you get the jest of some, alot of others will fall into place
HTH

 

[triggerfool]

i made sure my mandarin was eating before i bought it. You can ask your friendly Fish store employee to feed the fish to make sure it will take frozen foods. THe only way to be sure.

 

[sheni_angel]

Thanks a lot for the info guys!! I'll check out those slangs when I can. Do you order any fish online? Then you can't check out how they eat or what they look like. I was thinking from this company actually.