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miserkris
10/29/2011, 07:21 AM
I'm trying to get the most colorful mandarin.

I dont want the spotted, target mandarin.

I want the most beautiful kind in the psychedelic/striped kind.

Which one is the best? does ora have it....
Can someone post a link for types of mandarin?

Thanks a lot!
wdt2000
10/29/2011, 07:27 AM
does ora have it....
Can someone post a link for types of mandarin?


http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dragonets.html
Lord Baltimore
11/02/2011, 06:59 PM
Not to get off topic, has anyone had any experience with ORA's Mandarins?
snorvich
11/02/2011, 07:03 PM
ORA mandarins have mixed results. I will only purchase wild caught.
miserkris
11/02/2011, 08:21 PM
ORA mandarins have mixed results. I will only purchase wild caught.

Look wise they are same right.....ora vs wild caught?

Or do wild ones look bette r?
snorvich
11/02/2011, 08:24 PM
Look wise they are same right.....ora vs wild caught?

Or do wild ones look bette r?

I cannot say. I love my pair of red ones.
miserkris
11/09/2011, 08:38 AM
I cannot say. I love my pair of red ones.

Can isee pics pls?
Sugar Magnolia
11/09/2011, 09:20 AM
I wouldn't suggest putting a mandarin in a 55 gallon tank. Even if it is accepting prepared foods, it will still hunt for pods and can quickly decimate the pod population in that size tank. They are constant grazers, stopping only to sleep.
snorvich
11/09/2011, 10:02 AM
I wouldn't suggest putting a mandarin in a 55 gallon tank. Even if it is accepting prepared foods, it will still hunt for pods and can quickly decimate the pod population in that size tank. They are constant grazers, stopping only to sleep.

Absolutely.
olemiss reb
11/09/2011, 11:19 AM
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, buy the one you like.

Concerning the ORA mandarins. I've read about more failures than success with them accepting prepared foods. I tried two ORA targets that would not touch prepared foods. I currently have a pair of ORA blues in a 65 tank with pipes and garden eels that eat pellets, myid, and ova like champs. However, I have to use a turkey baster and spot feed them at least twice a day- everyday or they would starve. I've had them for 1.5 years and they would not survive without the spot-feeding.

I would not recommend putting one in a 55 even if it's an ORA. The success rate just isn't there.

older pic of male--
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/DSC_23962.jpg?t=1320101213

current pic of male--
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/mandarinmale8-14.jpg?t=1313359900

older female pic--
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/DSC_23703.jpg

current female pic--
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/femalemandarin8-14.jpg?t=1313359988