The dragon dance of my mandarin:) (1 Viewer)

[fishcraze]

The female mandarin in my tk has been pregnant for a while but i didn'tget a chance to see their mating dance until tonite.. so cool

and here's the pregnant female

 

[Guest]

Awesome, now that is cool.

 

[AggieBrandon]

Very cool Quoc.....glad you got to see it

 

[Guest]

you gonna make a hatchery tank so that you can save/raise those pretty syches?

 

[darrin]

ok/.. i'm confused... I thought that was a phychadelic fish and the mandarine was a different fish.. which is which..

 

[ShaneV]

Its a type of madarin fish.

 

[Cakepro]

It's 'technically' a mandarin dragonette but is usually called a psychedelic mandarin goby.

I went to Google to look for pictures of the two differnet dragonettes to post for you and found one website that shows too specimens in very poor shape. Yikes!

Striped Dragonette

Psychedelic Dragonette

Quoc, that is AWESOME! I caught my pair once while the actinics were still on but the pictures turned out pretty cruddy. Your female looks enormous! LOL

 

[fishcraze]

Sherri, did your female mandarin lay eggs? and what happen to them? I wish to see some baby mandarin in my sump one day.. that would be way cool 8)

 

[Cakepro]

That would be the ULTIMATE cool! Put me down first on your list to buy your captive-bred mandarin babies!

From what I remember reading, they are broadcast spawners. Mine never made baby mandarins, but they did that beautiful twirling dance up through the water column at night. It sure was sweet to watch.

 

[Aggie05]

A very succesful clownfish and cardinal breeder on www.saltwaterfish.com has tried raising mandarins, but hasn't yet been able to get them pass the first stages of life. Nor has any one else for that matter.

 

[Guest]

Mr. Aggie, can't we hope that Mr. SPScraze would be the first?

 

[HolyBanana]

Cool! I hope you get to have some mandarin babies there quoc.

 

[Guest]

I do believe that someone has raised mandarins. Not positive, but I wanna say it was C-Quest.

 

[Guest]

Too bad it's not as easy as fragging coral