Paring Madarin of different colors?

[yah-the submariner]

Tagging as well!
..Also i have a R mandarin,what wingo said is spot on,well except mine eats brine shrimp and mysis. but he's with a coral beauty,rabbit,wrasse,stardust blenny,perc clown,black sebae clown,and a cherry and cleaner shrimp absolutely no problem and very little interaction between them and him.even during feeding time there's no issue i just feed the flakes and shrimp at the same time the blenny and him only compete along the floor for food and the blenny goes for the algae mostly and he goes for the shrimp.
But wingo is right,there's no sure bet the one you get will be willing to eat other things besides pods. ..oh and they're in a 55 going into a 90

i meant the ones i posted here.

 

[cybermeez]

Staying with other fish almost has no bearing on the survival of it. When it settle in your tank, it ignores your other fish. My clownfish that is nesting need to bulldoze him away over 10 minutes because he just does not want to move away from his regular spot. The clown push the mandarin's head, his tail stay. When the clown push the mandarin's tail, the mandarin move his head back to the old spot.

The main issue is food, if you have enough pods for them, they would thrive. Therefore, if you have couple wrasses such as leopard and couple other pods eating gobies, they would compete for food. So if you see the mandarins thinning, you need to add more pods to the system.

I think mandarins instinctively know they taste bad and that nothing is going to eat them. Even if another fish nips them that fish will not be back for another bite.

Mandarins are pod hunting and eating almost non-stop so you need a bigger, mature system with a fuge growing a pod culture to house multiple individuals. Even the tank bred ones, because they seem to forget their training for eating prepared foods as soon as they leave the ORA facility.

 

[Awibrandy]

i meant the ones i posted here.

I wouldn't trust any trigger with shrimps.