mandarin

ive got a green mandarin wanted to know how to get him to eat frozen food

 

taging, my goal to get some in the future

 

Tagging, also looking at them sometime soon.

 

from what i've heard, very difficult

 

From my personal experiences only i fed the tank and because thr manderin is normally a bottom feeder found that all the other fish took the food so what i did that worked quite well was i took a large syringe with airline connected to it i sucked up frozed brine shrimp and squirted some right in front of his nose but at the same time i fed the rest of the fish at the other end of the tank, hope it helps

 

In general, they need live food to survive and not starve. Specifically copepods. I highly recommend that if you don't have a mature tank with ideally a refuguim, you either find a way to provide small live food or find him a new home. It's heartbreaking to watch one starve.

 

i am looking to get one sometime and as a result i have been working hard on helping my pod population and i have also built a target feeder for them which you can see n my thread:

Filthy's Cube

 

They are very difficult to keep and the best bet is an ample pod population. I have one and he ignored all frozen food for the first two years. Recently I saw him going for some lobster eggs though.