mandarin baby

Our LFS has been getting in baby captive bred mandarins and we decided to pick one up that they said had been eating frozen food like a pig (we bought the food they said she had been eating.) We didn’t know that the captive bred ones still have trouble eating frozen food sometimes. ‍ugh. Well...

Now hear me out, I am now culturing copepods and phytoplankton and have a hang on refugium and am getting tigriopus pods soon. I am hoping to get a baby mandarin dragonet that would be around 1.5cm long ≈ 0.5 inch and I will only have my tank for 10 months so I don’t think it will get too big. I...

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...

To all of you reefers who have mandarin dragonettes I have a few questions for you. I want to start off with my tank and it is an 8 month old 90 gallon tank with a good amount of livestock now. 2 clownfish 1 foxface Neon goby Yellow watchman goby Pistol shrimp Sand sifting star 2 conch 1 tux...

Hello! I have been around for a few years in the hobby and just set up my upgraded tank. I have been seeding the tank with Algaebarn copepods (around 25,000) and gave them time to mature in the tank, dosing phytoplankton in the tank daily to ensure pod population and maturation of that...

Hey everyone, I have this baby mandarin dragonet, and I’m wondering what gender it is.