Anenome and Mandarin, should I be worried?

[dkelley]

Thank you everyone for all the help as my dummy keeps missing certain pieces of info.

Here’s the situation: Biota Mandarin is super small, everyone helped me determine this little dude won’t survive the female on the big 140g tank so it will live in a little 15g tank with anemone’s and eventually a couple clowns.

The question: At the moment I don’t have the clowns yet, I haven’t decided on two I liked. I do have a couple of anemones in my 15g tank, should I be worried about the <1” mandarin drifting into and getting eaten by an anemone?

Thanks again!

 

[blaxsun]

It's unlikely - mandarins tend to stick to the rock word hunting pods.

 

[Jekyl]

Thank you everyone for all the help as my dummy keeps missing certain pieces of info.

Here’s the situation: Biota Mandarin is super small, everyone helped me determine this little dude won’t survive the female on the big 140g tank so it will live in a little 15g tank with anemone’s and eventually a couple clowns.

The question: At the moment I don’t have the clowns yet, I haven’t decided on two I liked. I do have a couple of anemones in my 15g tank, should I be worried about the <1” mandarin drifting into and getting eaten by an anemone?

Thanks again!

Nah, food supply would be the concern in a 15g

 

[dkelley]

Nah, food supply would be the concern in a 15g

The mandarin has plenty of pods I imagine but he also eats prepared foods. Being Biota born and raised it eats like every other fish.

 

[dkelley]

It's unlikely - mandarins tend to stick to the rock word hunting pods.

This one doesn’t. He eats from the water column being biota born and raised.

 

[Jekyl]

The mandarin has plenty of pods I imagine but he also eats prepared foods. Being Biota born and raised it eats like every other fish.

Mandarin will wipe out pods in a 15g pretty quickly

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

This one doesn’t. He eats from the water column being biota born and raised.

Many revert back to eating primarily pods, so be prepared for this...

 

[dkelley]

Mandarin will wipe out pods in a 15g pretty quickly

He still eats TDO and frozen plus I dose home grown tisbe. Food isn’t my concern for this literal less than 1” long Mandarin.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

He still eats TDO and frozen plus I dose home grown tisbe. Food isn’t my concern for this literal less than 1” long Mandarin.

Regardless, as long as the flow isn't so strong he can't swim out of it, you shouldn't have to worry about the nems.

 

[dkelley]

Many revert back to eating primarily pods, so be prepared for this...

I absolutely am. Not worried there. I culture tisbe and tiger pods. He will be the only one in there eating tisbe. Food isn’t my worry. Him becoming food is. He’s literally smaller than an 1” long.

 

[Ben549]

The mandarin has plenty of pods I imagine but he also eats prepared foods. Being Biota born and raised it eats like every other fish.

what are you feeding it? Mine, also from biota, just eats pods off the rock. Never seen him go for anything I've target fed or go after anything in the water column.

 

[dkelley]

Regardless, as long as the flow isn't so strong he can't swim out of it, you shouldn't have to worry about the nems.

Thank you. Flow is super low. I don’t have any power heads in there, just the return pump which is pretty week, came with the lifeguard tank though.

 

[dkelley]

what are you feeding it? Mine, also from biota, just eats pods off the rock. Never seen him go for anything I've target fed or go after anything in the water column.

I use TDO B2 size pellets that he will eat off the sand/rocks when it sinks and I have frozen baby brine and frozen cyclops pods that he eats out of the water column. He also pecks at pods I imagine. There’s plenty in there.

 

[Ben549]

I use TDO B2 size pellets that he will eat off the sand/rocks when it sinks and I have frozen baby brine and frozen cyclops pods that he eats out of the water column. He also pecks at pods I imagine. There’s plenty in there.

weird, ive tried B2, frozen brine, and freeze dried calanus, no luck so far.

 

[Jekyl]

He still eats TDO and frozen plus I dose home grown tisbe. Food isn’t my concern for this literal less than 1” long Mandarin.

Mine hovers around my nems all the time without issue.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thank you everyone for all the help as my dummy keeps missing certain pieces of info.

Here’s the situation: Biota Mandarin is super small, everyone helped me determine this little dude won’t survive the female on the big 140g tank so it will live in a little 15g tank with anemone’s and eventually a couple clowns.

The question: At the moment I don’t have the clowns yet, I haven’t decided on two I liked. I do have a couple of anemones in my 15g tank, should I be worried about the <1” mandarin drifting into and getting eaten by an anemone?

Thanks again!

I had mandarin in with two bubble tips and no threat to mandarin

 

[dkelley]

weird, ive tried B2, frozen brine, and freeze dried calanus, no luck so far.

I tried regular frozen brine but it was too big. The baby brine worked. That’s a bummer on yours. Surprising actually.

 

[dkelley]

I’ll stress less on these Nems then. The long tentacle nem looks hungry for the mandarin.

 

[Ben549]

I tried regular frozen brine but it was too big. The baby brine worked. That’s a bummer on yours. Surprising actually.

ill try again tomorrow with a few different things. It's a little tricky because I have a fairly high energy mixed reef with at least one high energy fish.

are there any queues that you've noticed that the mandarin recognizes as feeding time? Completely stopping flow, feeding pipette, etc

 

[Ben549]

I’ll stress less on these Nems then. The long tentacle nem looks hungry for the mandarin.

mandarins are supposed to have an extra thick slime coat, which is why people say they are less likely to get ich. maybe that will help protect it from the nems stings. Just a guess.