mandarin

Hello fellow enthusiasts. I hope everyone is doing well. When I started the adventure into fish/reef keeping I knew I would want to get a pair of dragonets. I’m still contemplating which color/design but did want some professional opinions into whether I may be maxed out on space for two more...

Hi all, need some urgent advice. My mandarin dragonet I’ve raised from when he was a baby is extremely messed up right now. His breathing is slow, all his fins are damaged, and he has these visible white patches all over. I have him in a new bare bottom tank right now, what does everyone...

So I just wanted to say my 2 cents for successfully keeping a mandarin dragonet. I'll make this as short as possible, but here is what I've learned. I've had mine probably 6 months now. 1. Buy a tank bred/raised one that eats frozen. Yes they are more expensive, but think about it, a lot of...

I am currently 6 weeks in to culturing copepods for the purpose of having a BIOTA mandarin pair (110 gallon tank). I have 5 one gallon cultures going at various stages but am waiting another week or two before I start harvesting. In addition to the pod cultures I also have also been culturing 3...

Can you put just a clownfish and mandarin goby together in a nano tank and mandarin goby diet and clownfish diet doe both need to be live in ro/dI system or just tap water to live in the saltwater

So far what I have in this mixed 40g Breeder is Yellow Watchman Pistol Pair Two Clowns Mandarin Dragonet Fire fish. Anemone I have 3 peppermints to help with my aiptasia but so far they haven’t been doing their job lol. Only had them a little over a week so hopefully it clicks soon Along...

We made our first order with Alyssa's Seahorse Savvy and discovered that the large blue aquarium conditioned mandarin that's supposed to be eating live brine shrimp wouldn't eat live brine shrimp (or baby brine shrimp, or any non live foods for that matter). We contacted her 3.5 days ago and...

Female Green Mandarin, have had her for a few years. very healthy and peaceful. local pickup - 34761

Alright guys, thoughts on this stock list for a 75 gallon? - mandarin goby/dragonet - molly miller blenny - pair of ocellaris clowns - possum wrasse - flasher wrasse (linespot) - ruby head fairy wrasse - melanurus wrasse (or other Haliochores of similar size) - unsure about this one

cool video of my 1.5 year old mandarin eating some kind of worm from the rocks … what do you think it is ?

Hi everyone! I have a 32-gallon display tank with a 10-gallon sump, 9 months ago I seeded Algaebarn Galaxy Pods into the display tank and refugium to support a mandarin. Since then the mandarin has been growing and live well so I didn't pay too much attention to the pods population, assuming...

Hi all, Yesterday, just after 10pm I had a pleasure watching my Mandarins’ mating dance. After about 40 mins, my mandarins swam together to the top of my tank and spawned. I wasn’t prepared for this occasion, unfortunately my wave makers have broken all the eggs to single pieces, which firstly...

I have had two large-ish fish die in a week. Both in weird ways. Cleaner wrasse I found curled up in a corner gasping. When I went to fish him out he tried to swim but couldn’t. He had a weird puff of flesh at the join on his fin and it wasn’t working at all. He’d been in the tank since the...

So I’ve been lurking here for nearly a year, often gleaning terrific information from the wise, seasoned veterans and occasionally something brilliant from a noob that they’ve self-taught. Today, I am officially joining the discussions because I feel like I finally have a little something to...

Hello Reefers, I would like to share a video that I shoot 1 hour ago while feeding my Mandarin Dragonet. Everybody was asking about how I feed my Mandarin on social media. Here is the answer. Bonus:

Hi all, After thousands of research, I bought Sony Rx100VI. I'm very happy with the results. My aim was to find the best point-and-shoot camera for my needs. Here are a few shots I made and cropped from the entire photo. These are not taken with a macro lens. I will keep this topic updated. It...

Hello Reef2reef, I have always wanted a mandarin dragonet, but I have yet to buy one because my tank might not have a stable enough copepods population. My DT is 80 gallons, while my sump is 11 gallons. At night, numerous amphipods crawl on the sandbed and rocks. Homeowners of the tank is as...

I am leaving the Hobby and need to rehome my 2 clowns and Green Spotted Mandarin. The. Mandarin eats frozen foods. I would like to move all three at once Pick up only. Located in Celebration FL.

Looking for some help.. So I had what I thought was a pair of biota mandarin goby’s. Well turns out as they matured I have two males… I know the simple answer is to just separate them and take one out but my problem is we a 93 gallon and have built an extensive BRS hsna aquascape. So other...

I’m evolving a mixed reef tank that currently has rock, sand, snails, conch, corals, coco worm, rock anemone, pom pom gracilarus macroalgae, phyto, pods, and brine shrimp. A large wild caught mandarin is on his way to me from Alyssa’s Seahorse Savvy next week slong with 2 small brittle stars and...

Good day all! Been reading forums and had just bought a ruby dragonet. He was eating frozen at the store but seems to not eat frozen in my tank. My current tank is 90 gallon aqueon reef ready(the one with the overflow) with plenty of live rock. Sump is a 40 gallon modified aquarium which uses...

I was at a local aquarium fish market a while ago and saw a super interesting type of "dragonet" as the person in the shop said, although they call anything they don't know what is a dragonet. It looked almost like a puffer fish mixed with a mandarin? It had the size and complexity of a mandarin...

I got this little fella (blue mandarin) the other day at PetCo. There was two but sadly the other one had passed away :// I ended up getting just him. He has been doing fine in the tank, got him copepods to eat and he was eating. This was 5 days ago that I’ve had him. I haven’t seen him since...

Hello all! So I have a pair of mandarin dragonets, and I’ve had them for about half a year. I wanted them to get a big larger before introducing them into one of my other tanks (wow do they grow slow), so I currently have them in a 10 gallon quarantine/temporary tank. I say “Temporary” as if...

Has anyone ever cultured pods to keep a mandarin in a small tank? I’m wondering how hard it is.