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reefyredfish
01/22/2009, 12:55 PM
I've seen one at the LFS and it was about 1/4". I've checked
the usual online stores and some say up to 1 1/2" but some
say 1/4" to 1/2". So how big do they get? I would like to add
one and think he would love my GBTA, however I don't want to
feed him to my mandarin goby. Which is the only fish I have that
I think would eat him if he's too small. So I would like to get one
an inch big if they get this big, I just don't know if they do.

Sugar Magnolia
01/22/2009, 02:33 PM
I've never had one get any bigger than 1/2"-3/4".

harleychic
01/23/2009, 11:12 AM
A sexy shrimp would be too big for a mandarin to eat, even a small one.

Pulp Fishin
01/25/2009, 01:27 PM
Mine never got much bigger then 1/2".

snorvich
01/26/2009, 06:57 PM
1/2 of a inch. Mandarins are not gobies, they are Dragonets. In any case they do not eat sexy shrimp.

Elysia
01/26/2009, 10:58 PM
You have a BTA w/ a mandarin? Forgive my ignorance, I'm unfamiliar w/ the specifics of the anemones, but I thought that anemones and mandarins were not recommended as tankmates?

snorvich
01/28/2009, 11:10 AM
Well carpet anemones are killers of mandarins (and other fish) but BTA? I have never kept one so I cannot say.

reefyredfish
01/28/2009, 12:44 PM
Yea I have 2 GBTA's and a nice size mandarin. They've been happy for several
months now. So nobodies seen a sexy shrimp bigger than 1/2" to 3/4"?

Pulp Fishin
02/07/2009, 01:05 PM
no I have 6 and the biggest one is a hare bigger then the smallest.

pandarider007
01/12/2011, 08:40 PM
mine is about an inch