Breeding Mandarins...

[brazilian]

I'm off today and spend fill hrs looking at my 90gls and I watch a amazing scene, my mandarins mating, dancing up and down on the tank, they were glue togheter, was great.:yay: :thumbs:

 

[purplegorilla]

Take pics, I wanna see them see (not that I am some kind of voyeur, but just curious). I am trying to find a female mandarine for mine. He is getting lonely.

 

[raisingtwo2006]

Congrats!!

 

[brazilian]

have camera on hands for a fish xxx movie... the male is under the rock work I almost ask him if he wanna a cigarett, but I will be posting as soon as I have some.

 

[rockdog]

Fish Porn!!!! I didn't know you were into that kinda stuff purpleGORILLA ...

Jason

 

[glxtrix]

Hmmm should be interesting, never heard of them mating in captivity. They usually will latch onto each other as a dominance thing. But if they are, pretty cool.

 

[brazilian]

dominance do not squirt liquids in the water...lol

 

[lorenk]

glxtrix;218809 wrote: Hmmm should be interesting, never heard of them mating in captivity. They usually will latch onto each other as a dominance thing. But if they are, pretty cool.

Actually, they do mate. I believe Jeremy got a captive bred mandarin at MACNA.

Checkout MOFIB.org for mandarin breeding info.

 

[ldybkr]

The ones they had at mcna were beautiful! I Wished I had won one.

 

[skriz]

I think Jeremy got one of the first available captive bred mandarins in the US!

 

[ldybkr]

I felt like a cigarette and I don't smoke.

 

[mfliin]

I just bought my female from Sal @ Saltwater City....I think there's another female left!

 

[ldybkr]

Someone from there referred me to keen's reef so I must shop there.

 

[glxtrix]

Skriz;218912 wrote: I think Jeremy got one of the first available captive bred mandarins in the US!

Exactly my point. Congrats however if you have a breeding pair, like I said, it's very difficult to find a pair that will mate and not try to kill each other.

 

[lorenk]

Here's the link to

 

[johnr2604]

Mofib has some great info on training to eat frozen foods makes me want to give mandarins a try again.

 

[soarin']

Matt Wittenrich gave a talk at MACNA on raising baby mandarins -- he said it's actually not that hard -- the key is to use sea hares as the source of the food for the baby mandarins -- the sea hares lay huge amounts of eggs, and the eggs hatch into nutritious and easy-to-catch food for the baby mandarins until they get big enough to eat other foods.

 

[fisherwoman]

I have a mandarin that eats almost anything I offer. He goes after bloodworms as soon as I put them in the tank. I started off giving him the Ocean Nutrition Formula 1 & 2 pellets. I would like to find him a mate but I don't want to push my luck. From everything I have read this is the exception not the rule.

Susie

 

[jmaneyapanda]

I wouldnt call breeding mandarins "easy" but wittenrich is a good guy, and has a wild card in his pocket. while he did raise these guys on sea hare emergents, he also lives right on the coast in florida, and trawls the cvauseways bfor planktonic food for his breed ing efforts. I consider that "cheating", but obviously I like cheaters, since I bought one of his mandarins. Actually, i won him in a silent auction for $40, and he eats rods food like crazy.