New Red Mandarin Dragonet

[containerman1]

Well heres a pic of my new Red Dragonet ( not the best pic ) I am going to name it Lucky because the Fed ex was suppose to deliver yesterday by 10:30 and could not so they delivered today and Lucky was still alive and so far doing great.
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[darth reefer]

Glad to hear it made it ok. They are great fish.

 

[kptransamws6]

Sweet fish. I can't wait to get mine. Just need my tank to be established longer.
How big of a tank did you put it in?

 

[containerman1]

KPTransAmWS6;857056 wrote: Sweet fish. I can't wait to get mine. Just need my tank to be established longer.
How big of a tank did you put it in?

Hey he's going in a 75 gallon reef tank . I just added a couple bottles of copods a mth ago
And feed reef chili and clyopeze but he's in qt now and I added a bottle of live copods

 

[saltbubbles]

I &lt;3 mandarins and surely it'll love your tank since you've prepared a feast for it.

 

[containerman1]

saltbubbles;857072 wrote: I &lt;3 mandarins and surely it'll love your tank since you've prepared a feast for it.

Thanks I want to make sure and spoil her I'm not a great cook so I have to have to give Lucky some options

 

[rdnelson]

Nice looking fish. .


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[ralph atl]

good luck! Great fish! as you know, keeping them longterm and fat is tricky at best!

 

[containerman1]

rdnelson99;857088 wrote: Nice looking fish. .


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Thanks Rich I have wanted one for along time and I had been waiting for a red one for couple mths.

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mysterybox;857109 wrote: good luck! Great fish! as you know, keeping them longterm and fat is tricky at best!

Thanks Ralph,
I am going to do my best to get her eating pellets soon but for now I am going to keep a wide variety

 

[atlweb]

My favorite fish. She looks fat and healthy!

Enjoy her!

 

[twocute2b4u]

If your system is not populated with a good number of pods....I just ordered about 3000 from reef2go. I also feed photo plankton and that's seemed to keep the pods happy.....Good luck, I love my Dragonet.

 

[crewdawg1981]

Definitely do yourself a favor and find some Nutramar Ova. I got mine hooked on that (easily I might add) and then started including the ova in with my other frozen offerings. Now my Mandy will literally eat anything I throw in the tank that happens to float past him (New Life Spectrum Pellets, Hikari Marine S Pellets, Cyclopeeze, Mysis, etc., etc.).

Just use a turkey baster to deposit some in his general vicinity at feeding time and you're good to go. Mine should be nicknamed fatty mcfatpants.

 

[raz0945]

+1 my 3(different tanks)mandarins love these foods!

Crewdawg1981;857137 wrote: Definitely do yourself a favor and find some Nutramar Ova. I got mine hooked on that (easily I might add) and then started including the ova in with my other frozen offerings. Now my Mandy will literally eat anything I throw in the tank that happens to float past him (New Life Spectrum Pellets, Hikari Marine S Pellets, Cyclopeeze, Mysis, etc., etc.).

Just use a turkey baster to deposit some in his general vicinity at feeding time and you're good to go. Mine should be nicknamed fatty mcfatpants.