ISO mandarin

[sp2013]

I am looking for mandarin fish. Ideally eat frozen / pellets. If you sell them please let me know. Thanks

 

[Twisted]

I am looking for mandarin fish. Ideally eat frozen / pellets. If you sell them please let me know. Thanks

I’ve heard the captive bred ones do really well but even those are hit or miss

 

[Darkxerox]

Usually you can only find the Synchiropus splendidus (green mandarins) captive bred from Biota and those are definitely pellet trained. I rarely see captive bred Synchiropus ocellatus (scooter mandarins) but they sometimes exist. But the vast majority you'll see for sale in stores will be wild caught and a huge gamble.

I got a wild (spotted mandarin) Synchiropus picturatus from High Tide and it eventually started eating mysis shrimp that settle to the sand.

 

[derek_SR]

I also got a spotted mandarin from High Tide. Mine will actually swim with the other fish and eat frozen food from the water column. He’s pretty bad at it, though.

I’d hesitate to keep any mandarin, captive, QTed, or wild, without a healthy population of copepods.

 

[HankDean V]

Easy, get it from High Tide.

 

[IOnceWasLegend]

Easy, get it from High Tide.

Third-ing this. Got my mandarin pair from Kenny a couple months ago, they eat frozen/pellets just fine, and I actually saw them doing the courtship dance last night!

 

[sp2013]

Double checking. Are you guys getting wild caught or captive bred green mandarin in High Tide?

 

[Srt4eric]

@under_water_ninja

 

[nlopedota]

We have 2 green spot mandarins in house, we have had them both for about a month both eat misis 1 eats TDO pellets. We can also order captive bred from Biota and ORA as well.

Cheers,
Nick