NEW MANDRIN !!!!! (pics)

[pnsnowboard]

i just got a new mandrin and she is beautiful

she was a pain in the butt to get a picture of her

she costed 50 at the LFS i know thats high but it was for her coloring and that is a true picture of her it is not photoshoped i think people should be kicked off for photoshoping that ****es me off so much well enjoy

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0199.jpg

[LBCBJ]

does it have anything to eat? I hope so. She's a beaut though

[RobbyG]

Lovely Mandarin, the colors are different from the rest, I hope you got a lot of Pods in your tank? it won't live more than 2 - 8 months without a good food supply.

[pnsnowboard]

yea she definantly has lots of pods to eat

[jimbo045]

Nice one. I tried over 6 of them, and all past away. But the one spotted one is still surviving for years. JD

[LBCBJ]

Well they'll wipe out your pod pop. very quickly, so have a backup plan.
jimbo- I really hope you dont try 6 of everything.

[The Reefer91]

do you have a refugium? how much rock? any competition? like a six-line Wrasse? other than that, it's very beautiful.

[pnsnowboard]

there is no competition there is only 2 other fish (both blue green chromis) in the tank it has been set up a year that whole year i dosed DT's everyday and i have a 10 gallon fuge every night you can see the pods out swimming like crazy there must be millions in there oh yea there is about 125 pounds of live rock

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7604467#post7604467 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LBCBJ
Well they'll wipe out your pod pop. very quickly, so have a backup plan.
jimbo- I really hope you dont try 6 of everything.

...a 'healthy' population will reproduce enough to keep ahead of a single mandarin

[pnsnowboard]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7604597#post7604597 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E-A-G-L-E-S
...a 'healthy' population will reproduce enough to keep ahead of a single mandarin

thank you everyone is beating me up telling me i wont be able to keep her alive and im 99% sure that i will keep her alive

[The Reefer91]

with your plan i have high hopes. sounds like you've done your research. it's just every time i hear someone got a mandarin, i ask the basic questions, just to be sure. but i think you'll have success. just stay one step ahead of that little beauty :)

[pnsnowboard]

thank you Reefer91 and everyone else who supports me

[Lpabsolute]

Nice looking fish

[LBCBJ]

I'm not beating you up at all, and I doubt anyone else here is. I'm really excited for you, mandarins are beautiful fish. I was just making sure you were aware of this, which it seems you are, so congratulations for doing your research. I just can't tell you how many people get these without knowing and wind up starving them. Best of luck!

[pnsnowboard]

yea when i read that jimbo has gone through 6 it really made me mad because thoes are the people that make fish like these go endangered

[physicslord]

So where are the other "pics"?

I only see one. Keep us updated on how the fish does. I have heard so many failure stories that I would like to hear some nice success stories.

My LFS told me the only way to keep a mandarin is to train it to eat frozen food.

[pnsnowboard]

i just took more im uploading them right now

[Sk8r]

She's gorgeous. And I'm absolutely sure you can keep her healthy with the system you describe.

[pnsnowboard]

here is some more pictures for your viewing pleasure sry some of them arnt that good she has only been in the tank for a day
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0202.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0203.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0204.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0204.jpg

[pnsnowboard]

sry i posted the last one twice

[The Reefer91]

that's an amazing color. i've never seen one with purple and green in that variety. truely stunning. keep us updated :)

[pnsnowboard]

yes she is very small probobly the smallest mandrin i have ever seen but her coloring is amazing this is why i waited 6 months after my tank was ready for a mandrin because i wanted to find one with perfect coloring

[pnsnowboard]

what do you think ?

[Skrymir]

Amazing. Well worth the wait.

[pnsnowboard]

i agree

[nathan_unsane]

ive seen the local fish store guy droping frozen brine in the tank and the mandrin was eating it up... saw it myself...

[kellyandcarrie]

She is very virbrant. Lucky you! Anyway, I have one but mine eats roe as well as pods that I breed in a different tank. Roe is those fish eggs that you find ontop of susi. So if you do have any problems (which I don't don't think you will) with her not getting enough to eat, there's you're solution. I've never come across a manarin that doesn't eat it like popcorn!

[cardgenius]

Looks good man! What store did you get her at?

[JGoslee]

I love the colors! Nice fish

[The Reefer91]

Now what we really want are pics of the whole tank so we know what it's living in :p i do want to see a whole tank shot though.

[sloshesv]

That is some kind of freaky coloring there. Congrats. Oh, and don't kill it or we'll have to "I told you so" to death.

[Kogo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7605457#post7605457 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pnsnowboard
yes she is very small probobly the smallest mandrin i have ever seen

that seems to be a key factor in mandarine survival. alot of people cant get past their biggest fish for the price hangups. the small ones seem to adjust to captivity better and are willing to take a wider variety of foods (and they need less of it as well) the larges and especialy jumbos seem to be very picky, poorly adjustable, and need lots more food.

it seems that with mandarines (and alot of other things) there is alot of "expert advice" that gets repeated based on assumptions after failures (ex. my fish died, so the fish must be impossible to keep because im an expert with 6 months experiance and couldnt possible be at fault) or flamer responses.

the best advice comes from success. those who have had success with mandarines dont share the impossible to keep mentality that elicits 6 - 10 "concerned responses" as soon as the word mandarine is mentioned. those with success know that a mature tank with liverock (a fuge helps too) and no fast or aggressive fish competing with the mandarine will support a mandarine just fine. if kept properly, mandarines can be one of the simplest and most rewarding reef fish to keep. they are active, colorful, have great personality, and when you go away for a week (i just got back tuesday) you dont loose any sleep worrying if anyone fed the fish, because they find thier own food in the well established tank.

ofcourse the original poster seems to know this anyway, so sorry for the rant.... just my .02

[sloshesv]

Unfortunately, I will never get one of the beautiful fish. :sadclown:

[scott058]

good colors, There should be no problem keeping her fat with that setup and no competition

[pnsnowboard]

ill get some tank pics on at about 1:30 when the lights turn on thanks for all the help and suggestions

[pnsnowboard]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7606118#post7606118 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cardgenius
Looks good man! What store did you get her at?

i got her at neptunes

[hgbarwick]

Nice fish!!! Love her color.

[RobbyG]

Sorry if you felt I was beating up on you, that was not the intent, it's just that Mandarins tend to be the number one "Impulse Buy" fish, but looking at your specs I see that you had this well thought out, I am very sure you will have no problems with a setup like yours.

[reef_ky]

beautilful fish....keep the pics coming...

[pnsnowboard]

im uploading some tank pics to show you guys and gals where this lil beauty lives

[chef4465]

i just bought a mandarin as well will my christmas wrasse compete for pods?

[pnsnowboard]

i belive they will i would probobly remove one so the mandrin wont starve

[pnsnowboard]

here is some pics of the tank where my new mandrin is living

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0214.jpg


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0213.jpg


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http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0211.jpg


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0210.jpg


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0209.jpg


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0208.jpg


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e116/pnsnowboard/CIMG0207.jpg

sry i dont have the right side of the tank the memory on my camera was full

[The Reefer91]

great tank psn, really nice. needs more coral in my opinion :D

[hgbarwick]

looks good. He will probaby add more coral over time.

[LBCBJ]

Umm, does that orange fungia (or cycloseris) look dead to anyone else or is it just me?

[pnsnowboard]

its not dead its just when i took the picture i hadent fed him in a week i fed him today so he is happy

[thor32766]

wow, beautiful mandarin.

[pnsnowboard]

so what does everyone think of my tank ?

[Holygrail45]

Okay, well...I love mandrins but have held off moving forward because:
A) My tank is only 3 months old
B) I dont know what a pod is, let alone if I have enough
C) Please refer to A and B.

I'll do the reaseach when Im ready to buy, now its just green chromies, some clowns and my coral...but I will want to move in this direction and googling "pods" is a far shot from where I'll end up needing to research...any simple breakdowns? Links or suggestions?

Greatly appreicated....

PS: PN...great looking fish, congrats.

[demonboy279]

thats a beautiful mandarin :) i cant wait till my tank can handle one. ive in love with them. my tank is still to young and im not gonna trust my pod population yet.

but shes definitely a beauty :)

[818]

My tank is 2.5 months old with a mandarin.

Buy harvested live pods and throw them in the main display/fuge at night. Its easy;)

[818]

Anyone can keep a Mandarin!!!!!! (http://www.reef-revolution.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12)

[pnsnowboard]

Holygrail45 this is what a copepod looks like thanks to melev
http://melevsreef.com/id/copepod2.jpg

[pnsnowboard]

http://melevsreef.com/id/copepod2.jpg

[pnsnowboard]

thoes pods in a bottle dont work that well

[demonboy279]

wouldnt pods die after being kept in a bottle?

[hairymushroom]

>>>wouldnt pods die after being kept in a bottle?
i was thinking the same thing, i also wouldnt trust a company that doesnt know the difference between gobies and dragonets IMO.

[roons]

i hope you have better luck than me, i saw tons of pods running around , even added copepods for a while and still both i tried died, no clue, but i cant bare to gamble with anothers life...........

[scunan]

I have had my mandarin for well over a year and I have done nothing special except have an established tank to put it in.

[The Reefer91]

roons, the reason might also be cyanide poisoning. some of them are caught that way.

[roons]

really..............well one i got local and one i got from la.....................they both just stop being lively and keeled over, i assumed it was lack of food, would a flame angel and six line wrasse eat all the copepods b4 he would have a chance to get them? all i can figure, cause my tank was a year old in the least, now its 26 months and i see tons of mysis and amphi swimming in fuge but not many copepods now, do they eat these as well?

[The Reefer91]

both six line warsse and flame angels will eat pods. the wrasse more than the angel though.

[AquaReeferMan]

I have ordered pods online that come in bottles many times. There is never any die-off for me. They usually ship it cold. I dont know but they dont die. I got 2 or 3 bottles of atround 500. They come with a little macro algae. They swim around in the bottle. I just put it in the tank and opened it. They will venture out. The 6 Line will eat the pods.

[roons]

well that explains it then

[advena]

thats classic...
did you buy her from one of the small tanks (where they keep the inverts) at Neptune's???
when i stopped by about a week ago i saw her up there, and i wanted her baaaaaad...

all ive gotta say is youre lucky my tank hasnt been up long enough ;)

beautiful fish & its GREAT to hear that someone has planned (a year in advance!!) for a sustainable food source for one of these beauties.

good luck!

-scott

[pnsnowboard]

yup it was her she is beautiful and now im glad your tank was not mature enough you can come over and see her sometime she is still really shy though

[advena]

right on...
keep us updated on how she does!!

[pnsnowboard]

will do