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Most Weirdest Green Mandarin

NanoAquatic

NanoAquatic

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So... I got this Green Mandarin from Will here on MR.

I was surprised that it was eating frozen brine shrimp... at first I thought it would gobble it and just spit it back out, but i waited and watched for over 15 minutes and it would just keep going at it... but i found something even more amazing...

I feed my other fish pellets, but before i put them in, I mix Garlic Gard by Seachem. Sometimes I get lazy and I don't mix the Garlic Gard, but when I do that, the Green Mandarin just passes right by, completely ignoring it. When I put the Garlic Gard, it eats the pellets on the bottom like nothing. It's not even moving like a copepod so how is it eating all these stuff!? He even spreads his wings and dances when I'm about to feed them.

I consider myself really lucky to have a non-picky eating Green Mandarin. Let me know if anyone else had this experience. I don't think I even need to buy copepods anymore...:knockedou

"It feeds on a variety of vitamin-enriched live brine shrimp, live black worms, and natural prey on live rock and live sand." -this is what it says on LiveAquaria.com and I had many people tell me not to get this unless it's a mature tank. I did wait 8 months for this, but it seems this particular one didn't really matter~
 
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ryangrieder

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luck you! my first one only ate pods and frozen pods. gave it to a buddy cause i was tired with him not converting. i got another MONSTER size one. i swear i dont think there is one thing it wont eat. frozen, live, pellets, flakes whatever it is, it eats it. only thing is that it HAS to sink to the bottom. one thing thats even more crazy is since my food i make is kinda my own mixture of about 15 types of frozen food, i even put chopped up nori in it and if any makes it to the bottom before my hippo and flame get it all like normal, he eats that as well. he has not though in the past two months, but for a good solid half a year he ate it. he is as fat as my thumb and maybe 2 1/2 to 3 inches. had him for about...3 years now maybe? lol. i dont know he is my champ and i love him. out of all the fish i have he is my favorite just because he went through hell. ick twice, marine velvet onces, had fungus on him for awhile, fell off and he was fine, even had a fin nipped and after a few months grew it kinda back. love um. now if only if i could hand feed him, HA... nothing could beat that lol.

only thing that is kinda weird that ive never heard anyone else mention is that mine actually got semi aggressive. i have a yellow tail algae blenny he nips at all the time and nips my pink spot luther goby once and awhile. honestly i dont care, showing some dominence is fine with me coming from a mandarin lol.
 
dubs

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sometimes u get a weird fish and its eat all the stuff u dont expect it to eat ..i had blenny that died not too long ago that thing was a beast it eat every thing i throw in my tank period along with cleaning my rock of the green stuff it one was cool fish
 
NanoAquatic

NanoAquatic

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LOL!! hey bro, like my eye lashes? lol!!! I don't care how expensive Blue Spotted Jawfish or Yasha Goby was, or how fancy my Mandarin looks.... my favorite fish is my Algae/Lawnmawer Blenny!! lol. Looks like Homer LOL!!
 
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