Green mandarin breeding (1 Viewer)

[tektite]

EDIT -

I've been told by a LFS that a number of people have come asking about mandarin pairs due to this thread. I just really want to stress this fact - MANDARINS REQUIRE SPECIALIZED CARE!!!

A lot of tanks, especially new or small tanks are unable to sustain one mandarin, let alone two. I have tailored my whole tank to the care of these incredible fish. Please please please do your homework before getting a mandarin!!!

There are a few extraordinary tales of success in small/new tanks - but for every success story there are hundreds of mandarins who have suffered a slow death of starvation. Please do not read until you find a situation that worked and gloss over the many many ones that didn't.

I don't mean to sound harsh, I just really care about these incredible fish and don't want my breeding thread to inadverdently lead to any other mandarins slowly starving to death in a tank that is unable to provide them the food needed.

Success is quite possible in tanks that are large, and or have been established for months with a large population of copepods. Remember that many common fish like anthias, wrasses, gobies, etc that are carnivores will be eating pods as well.

Please feel free to ask any questions about mandarin care, your tank, etc. I am quite happy to help





Finally saw my green mandarin couple together before lights-out and got some pics

My male:

My female:

Together:

 

[steveb]

Very cool! Are they in your macro tank?

 

[tektite]

Yup

 

[ModAquatics]

Was Barry White playing on the radio? .... ;-)

 

[NarnyTheGreat]

Sweet! They are beautiful.

 

[reeftopia]

to bad you never see the babies from the action

 

[tektite]

I will be trying to raise the young soon, its a very difficult process for mandarins though so I don't know how much success I'll have.

 

[emixa]

WOW! Those are awesome pics!

 

[oldmantran]

What happen to the red dragonette, cat? Those are beautiful pics.

 

[tektite]

Thanks everyone.

The red scooter dragonette is doing very well, grown a bit since I got her (she was so tiny!):

I will be getting a male for her sometime, just need to make sure the pod population can support 4 pod-eaters. The female green mandarin readily eats frozen mysis, so that helps quite a bit.

 

[RR-MAN]

Very cool...

One of these days, I'll stop by to check out your tanks.

 

[trb]

Very cool...

One of these days, I'll stop by to check out your tanks.

Well worth the trip!

Those guys look great, Cat! We just got a regular scooter last week, and he is eating just about anything he gets to. He is so cute, but my son also wants a mandarin. Or two. That will have to wait until the new tank.

Good luck with them!

 

[FragsandMore]

Beautiful as always Cat!

 

[Mtaswt]

that's awesome.......i'm glad to hear that you keep both the scooter and the mandarins together. I always heard they would fight each other. I know it's possible that they might, but I may have to try it myself?

 

[fishrme]

you always take great pics ...how cool is that too catch them together ...very romantic ...hopefully little babies soon

 

[FragsandMore]

leave it to Cat to try to document fish porn

 

[tektite]

LOL

 

[mwilliams62]

Pics want show up on my computer....

 

[tektite]

Pics are there, are you at work? Some workplaces block sites like photobucket.

 

[mwilliams62]

Yes at work but other pics come through. And so far Photobucket is not blocked here.