My new Mandarin

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Well I fed the tank tonight with Mysis and it appears as if he is eating or hunting after the frozen. Hard to tell yet though. I think I may try to enhance his feeding response with possible garlic extract into the food. Any thoughts or ideas?

Eric
 
I'd work on boosting that 'fuge asap. Even if they appear to be chasing after food particles, more often than not they aren't actually eating it. Mandarins like to pretend they're eating food for some reason. I hate that these things are starved already when they come in. Unfortunately it took me going through two of them that were too far gone to be saved before getting my fatty I have now. I've always had massive amounts of pods from a big refugium, but they've been so emaciated and weak when I got them it was already too late. I'm cheering your little guy on.

Did you dump all those pods in your display? Or divide between display and 'fuge?
 
Divided but I am going to get some more pods and dump all the new pods into the display. Does reef's happen to have any do you know? Otherwise I am going to try ordering from a place on ebay just to see..

Eric
 
On a side note he did take in one whole piece of mysis. I was watching for quite a while. He never spit it out. So like you said though its hard to tell!

Eric
 
When I set up my new refugium I scoured the 'net for every place that sold live pods and ended up getting all of them from Reefs2Go. You get many more than stated and much more variation. If you've ever seen the DT's pods, there's not much in the vial. Gotta hold a light to it just to see any. Reefs2Go also has the buy one get one free right now. Still the best deal IMO. I wish they had that sale when I bought four bags from them...
 
They actually have one on ebay right now buy 1000 get a 1000 free and only 9.99 for shipping!!!! Thats a pretty good deal I think!

Eric
 

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