MandarinFish!!!!!

[seannmelly]

Originally Posted by Fishgeek01
So i guess the obvious question is how do you tell a male and female apart in this species, i have had mine for about 6 months in my 75 reef (been set up for 3 yrs) and would love to have a mated pair as i already have a breeding pair of cardinals, clowns, and watchman gobies. All of my pairs breed on a regular schedule, and i have posted about it on here before
Males have a very long dorsal spine, and while the females do not. It looks like cjml's mandarin is a male, while My Way's is a female.

 

[mavis1032]

Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr
Mavis which fish store do you go to that SELLS Pods and how many do you get and how much? please,, do they come in a bottle? bag? what? thanx
They are called TiggerPods and come in a bottle of 2000.(I don't know or who counts them...
I get them form Exotic Aquatics on Oakland Park Blvd in Ft. Lauderdale. I have had great luck with everything I have prchased from them.

 

[mavis1032]

Sorry i forgot $20.00 a bottle.

 

[rcbruce]

Seems like we are becoming "The Mandarin Bunch!" I bet you never expected this kind of sustained response PonieGirl? I know I have this thread on my e-mail alert!

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by RCBruce
Seems like we are becoming "The Mandarin Bunch!" I bet you never expected this kind of sustained response PonieGirl? I know I have this thread on my e-mail alert!

I did not expect to have a dragonet, either. Both surprised me greatly!
My 12 yr old spied ours at my favorite LFS about 4 weeks ago. We have been going back weekly. My initial response is, "I don't care for rock dwellers".
Hmph. I just hate it when I'm so wrong.
BTW. I'm trying to get the little rascal to pose for another photo op. She's not shy, but just get out the camera, and she mosies on back behind the rock..

 

[cjml]

Originally Posted by My Way
Mine is cuter than those!

Just kidding with you. Here is my girl.

Beautiful!!!!

 

[cjml]

Originally Posted by RCBruce
Seems like we are becoming "The Mandarin Bunch!" I bet you never expected this kind of sustained response PonieGirl? I know I have this thread on my e-mail alert!

The mandarin bunch!! I like it!! :happyfish :happyfish

 

[poniegirl]

A little better.
Last evening, while feeding, I watched her snick up a mysis, spit it out, snick again, spit again and move on..she doesn't care for it.
Are there captive bred vs wild caught mandarinfish?

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by hot883
Here's is mine about a year. Can't remember exactly though. My photo skills stink, but here she is.
She's in your 125?
BTW, apparently my photo skills aren't great, either. I even got a "thumbs down".

 

[my way]

Originally Posted by PonieGirl
She's in your 125?
BTW, apparently my photo skills aren't great, either. I even got a "thumbs down".

I took my pic through a magnifying glass with an old Olympus 1.3 MP. Ive dropped it so many times it now shows that green line in it. I want a new camera, only every time I have some extra money, some fool has to have some nice Zoa's for sale:thinkingf course the camera money then becomes coral money! :hilarious Wait till your fish is at the front of the tank to take the pic

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by PonieGirl
She's in your 125?
BTW, apparently my photo skills aren't great, either. I even got a "thumbs down".

Just ignore that jerk. I loved the pic!

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by Sea_Star
I've got a quick question here. How do you tell what kind of pods you have? Mine look like skinny roly-polies with tiny antennas, but they don't crawl on the glass, just the rocks.

Sounds like amphiopods.

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by alyssia
Sounds like amphiopods.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/172998/amphipods-copopods-isopods

 

[jpa0741]

I want in the Mandrin bunch!!!! Her is a pic of Hendrix (I know she is a girl). I have had her for about a month now. I added 4 bottles of pods to fuge and display. I also have 1 bottle I have used to start culturing.

Jeff

 

[my way]

Out of curiosity, what did your Mandarins cost? Mine was $20, she is about 1.5". I thought that was a good price.

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by jpa0741
I want in the Mandrin bunch!!!! Her is a pic of Hendrix (I know she is a girl). I have had her for about a month now. I added 4 bottles of pods to fuge and display. I also have 1 bottle I have used to start culturing.

Jeff
What a chunky little girl! Very retro name, it's great! What size tank? And fuge?

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by My Way
Out of curiosity, what did your Mandarins cost? Mine was $20, she is about 1.5". I thought that was a good price.
Mine was just 14 and change, but she's "just" a green.

 

[rcbruce]

I paid $20 for mine, average of what I see, so $15 is a good deal! I'm hoping to find a female soon to put in with my male.

I went to my favorite lfs yesterday to look for one, but all they had were males. Unfortuneately, I did leave with a pair of scissortail dartfish. I get in so much trouble cause of this hobby.

 

[jpa0741]

Originally Posted by PonieGirl
What a chunky little girl! Very retro name, it's great! What size tank? And fuge?
Thanks, 92 gal, 55 gal fuge.

 

[integral9]

I'm upgrading my 30 to a 60 and have a 25gal sump w/ fuge, and 75lbs of LR, 40lbs of LS. My wife really wants to get a mandarin and I was wondering if adding a bottle of the pods would make it so I can add mandarin in say around the holidays. The 30 was about 6 months old when I transfered into my 60.
Other tank mates include:
2 Black perc
1 Bicolor
1 purple firefish
2 skunk cleaners
2 sally lightfoots
1 blood red cleaner
1 brittle seastar
a host of featherdusters newly aquired from 1 peice of LR I bought (I counted like 8 on a single peice of rock). Also got macro algea (looks like a cactus w/out the spines) and what looks like a christmas tree worm. <--- AWESOME!!!