mandarin dragonet

Hello! I’m super excited to show off my 108 gallon fiji cube tank as it grows! It has been up and running for roughly 6 months now and currently houses 2 clowns (1 black ice and 1 regular ocellaris) from my LFS, tons of live rock (not sure on the exact number of lbs. I ended up actually using...

hello everyone! My name is Mia and I am new to the hobby from Minnesota! I first began my saltwater journey about 1.5 years ago, and after MANY obstacles and roadblocks along the way, my 108 gallon fiji cube tank is finally complete (until I add more fancy equipment in the future!) I currently...

Hello reefers. I'm fairly new to the hobby... just a few months in, having set up a 20 gallon tank with a couple clowns. I was at the LFS the other day and committed a potential cardinal sin by purchasing a Mandarin Dragonet on impulse, rather than researching thoroughly beforehand. It's wild...

So I have a very large green carpet anemone, it’s about 12 inches in diameter. This anemone is hosted my clown fish and in the back of the tank in the shape of a toco in between top rocks. I’m trying to determine weather I should get a leopard wrasse or mandarin goby. The last thing I want is...

Purple dotty back-10 Lineatus wrasse super male-250$ Fire angel-75$ Blue star leopard wrasse-75$ Purple tang-150$ Mandarin goby that eats mysis shrimp-50$ These are currently the fish I have for sale I do not have many good pictures of them but they are all in good health They must all be...

Hello! I wanted to get some input on stocking ideas for my 60-gallon reef tank. Right now it's mainly empty (just a clownfish and royal gramma) and a bunch of corals. The tank itself is pretty well-established and I'm considering getting a more 'finicky' fish but can't seem to make up my mind...

Hi everyone! I am a college student and I'm working on a paper for my Ichthyology class and the topic is on the Mandarin Dragonet. I'm mainly writing about the biology, behavior, and effects it has on the aquarium trade (i.e. economic effect). If anyone is familiar with scientific papers or...

Hello everyone, I recently bought a Mandarin Goby for my year and a half 32 gal saltwater tank, for the past 2 weeks I've seen him pecking at the substrate and rocks all the time which I suppose means there are copepods in the tank, but still he seems to be very thin and is not eating the live...

I have a waterbox cube 20 that I've just added fish and coral to after 4 weeks of cycling. There are currently 2 clowns and a peppermint shrimp, along with some hermits and snails for CuC. My absolute favorite fish is the mandarin dragonet. I know they can be difficult fish to keep in a tank...

Hello, I’m upgrading my fish tank to Red Sea g2 425 and I’m wondering if I put 25 packs of live copepods would it be enough to reproduce. I have 4 mandarin fish but I don’t think that my copepods will survive the move and I want to be sure I will have enough to kinda start again without...

Hello Reefers, I would like to share a video that I shoot 1 hour ago while feeding my Mandarin Dragonet. Everybody was asking about how I feed my Mandarin on social media. Here is the answer. Bonus:

The tank is 122x58x70 (cm) or 48x22.8x27.6 (inches) or 4x1.9x2.3 (feet), 490 liters or 108 gallons and the sump is 110x33x38 (cm) / 138 liters or 30 gallons. Stocking list: 2x Multicolor lubbocks fairy wrasse (Pair?) 1x Yellowfin fairy wrasse Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis 1x Blue flahsher wrasse...

I have had him for over a month and he keeps swimming in the water column every night wich is how I got these photos but I am not sure if I'm OCD and he's fat, meaning he looks great or he is Mel nurished and I just don't know what a fatt mandarin looks like.

Hi, I have a mandarin dragonet who recently developed a single white lump on the side of his face. I have not been able to identify what this is. Any suggestions on what it could be would be greatly appreciated. He is eating and behaving normally as far as I can tell. There have not been...

I don't want to start a dragonet war or anything but which dragonet is your personal favorite based on your opinions experience and difficulty. If you chose other please reply to this thread and explain which and/or why. Also if you have some photos and experience to share of your own that would...

Now hear me out, I am now culturing copepods and phytoplankton and have a hang on refugium and am getting tigriopus pods soon. I am hoping to get a baby mandarin dragonet that would be around 1.5cm long ≈ 0.5 inch and I will only have my tank for 10 months so I don’t think it will get too big. I...

I got this little fella (blue mandarin) the other day at PetCo. There was two but sadly the other one had passed away :// I ended up getting just him. He has been doing fine in the tank, got him copepods to eat and he was eating. This was 5 days ago that I’ve had him. I haven’t seen him since...

I have two baby dragonets from Biota, that I’ve had for about 5 months. Currently eating pellets and copepods. I had an ich a problem a while back, and while I treated all my other fish with copper, I did TTM with these two. Afterwards I put them into a temporary tank, where they still are...

Hello, I have a problem it seems and my skills at research are failing me. I found one other thread on this forum with a similar title but no real resolution so I figured I should ask. My Mandarin Dragonettehas an odd growth coming from her left side gill hole, or I would assume it is a gill...

Hey Everyone! New to the page, looking to bring over my tank build to this forum as well :)! Here are some highlights of my livestock: - Wild blue/green Mandarin Dragonet Pair - Orange Molly - Biota Neon Goby

Who has experience and would be open to share about a tank rehoming multiple dragonets and a possum wrasse! Or multiple species competing for same food source (pods)? Context: Innovative Marine Peninsula 14 Gal I brought home 2 wild mandarins! Was able to get them to eat live + frozen brine...

Do I own a male or female Mandarin? I recently rehomed 2 mandarins and the one in the pictures below has been picked on a little by its male counterpart. They are about 1.5-2inches. I believe I have a female but I just wanted some assistance with this. Does anyone else have this experience of...

Curious if any of you have experience in keeping Biota Mandarins. I have been feeding them xsmall TDO pellets, and they have grown quite a bit since receiving them. My question is at what stage do they graduate to larger pellets like the small instead of xsmall? They seem to be grabbing mysis...

I’ve seen things about them being able to destroy a pod population in a few days, but is this really true? I have an inTank Refugium comming in a few days so I’ll have a little fuge to support a pod population, but would also be willing to dose pods on a somewhat regular basis (bi weekly?) and...

Will a mandarin dragonette eat these guys? I have pods bothering my zoas. They’re larger and I believe they’re amphipods. Maybe 1/4”. Visible to the naked eye but not huge. Or would a scooter blenny work? I know a wrasse will but it’s a biocube and I only have two small clowns in there now. Only...