Mandarin feeding

[JumperAlex]

I added a green mandarin dragonet to my 90 FOWLR on Sunday along with a bottle of pods. He seems to be doing very well and amazingly on his third day of being in the tank he ate some of the frozen food my girlfriend offered him!!! I don't know if we were just lucky or if they fed him frozen at the LFS. This is the kind of food he ate...

All she did was offer a bit of this food to him in a baster while the lights in the tank were off (so the other fish didn't try to steal it from him). If any of you have dragonets out there, what do you feed? And how did you get them to eat it?


90g FOWLR
Foxface lo x 1
Ocerllaris clown x2
Blue spotted Toby puffer x1
Tomini tang x1
Flame hawk x1
Mandarin dragonet x1
Red legged hermit crab x 5-10
Snails x 5
Short spine urchin (red) x 1
Conch x 1
Chocolate chip starfish x 2

 

[Dixie_reefer]

I feed my mandarin the same thing and he loves it. Got lucky I guess.

 

[NaClWater72756]

My scooter eats pellet food and frozen mysis.

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[devolette]

our spotted would eat frozen mysis, it took him a while to catch on, we would just take a dropper (small baster sorta deal) and shoot frozen shrimp at him when feeding the other tankmates and he eventually started eating them. eventually he would come up to the dropper and pull them out himself haha. also, if you're going to use frozen mysis look for the kind with vitamins and such, it's much better for them and makes their colors pop.