Green mandarin that eats mysis - what's the value?
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Alexreefer
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depends on where he came from, if he was tank born from biota they initially sell for $90 @AlgaeBarn
If the mandarin was taught to eat frozen, I would pay less but still a resonable price.
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Hate to give a non-answer, but the value is a personal choice. If you're already feeding your tank mysis and pellets there's definitely a convenience factor. Perhaps offer to meet in the middle on price, or offer to pay the upcharge if/when it's eating that in your tank. Just some food for thought, pardon the pun.
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He was wild caught. You think $60 is a better price?
Not a bad idea... I'll give it a shot
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I don't see the value. I bet they originally bought that fish at a retail price of $20-40. That's nice that it eats frozen but frozen food is not a staple in a mandarins diet, it's just a little something extra.
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The way mandarins digestive systems work is their small stomaches are not really able to store food so they have to constantly eat. This cannot be accomplished by feeding frozen food once or twice a day. Imo a mandarin that eats mostly frozen food is not a healthy mandarin
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Easy answer is that $60 is better for you than $75.
Otherwise;
I have paid more for a fish that was living in captivity and eating. The guy had an immaculate tank, the fish was getting hammered by another tang and it looked pretty beat up but otherwise, the fish was healthy. I paid more, the fish's fins grew back and it has been healthy and eating from day one. I didn't worry about disease or the fish slowy fading and dying like can happen with cheaper LFS fish that may have underlying health issues that manifest later.
The value of an easy to keep acclimated specimen is much greater than a known hard-to-keep fish that is normally picky and "only" eats live food. Still, I would want to see the tank (inspection) and see the picky fish eat pellets or frozen before I purchased unless the seller is a reefing community icon who routinely provides items like thiw for sale (as the seller was in my case.)
My fish was a "high dollar" rescue (I paid more than I could have at the LFS) but I needed more bioload and the tang was needed for algae issue as well as the fact that it needed to be rehomed because it was getting bullied where it was at.
hth.
Otherwise;
I have paid more for a fish that was living in captivity and eating. The guy had an immaculate tank, the fish was getting hammered by another tang and it looked pretty beat up but otherwise, the fish was healthy. I paid more, the fish's fins grew back and it has been healthy and eating from day one. I didn't worry about disease or the fish slowy fading and dying like can happen with cheaper LFS fish that may have underlying health issues that manifest later.
The value of an easy to keep acclimated specimen is much greater than a known hard-to-keep fish that is normally picky and "only" eats live food. Still, I would want to see the tank (inspection) and see the picky fish eat pellets or frozen before I purchased unless the seller is a reefing community icon who routinely provides items like thiw for sale (as the seller was in my case.)
My fish was a "high dollar" rescue (I paid more than I could have at the LFS) but I needed more bioload and the tang was needed for algae issue as well as the fact that it needed to be rehomed because it was getting bullied where it was at.
hth.
