ORA Captive bred mandarin dragonets

oceans garden aquaculture · Jul 15, 2020

ORA Blue Mandarin Dragonet Captive-Bred For Sale | Reef Safe Fish

Buy ORA Blue Mandarin Dragonet Captive-Bred. Hardy, reef safe, and accepts prepared foods. Add this vibrant fish to your saltwater aquarium today!

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Tme12 · Jul 15, 2020

Are the mandarin's accepting of a wide variety of pellets? I've always wanted one, but never had an established copepod colony to be able to sustain wild caught ones.

oceans garden aquaculture · Jul 15, 2020

Our experience has shown that these young fish begin to grow rapidly when they are kept in a reef environment. We believe that while our mandarins can survive on 100% commercial diets, they will thrive in an environment that offers them a combination of frozen, pellet and live copepods.

Tme12 said:
Are the mandarin's accepting of a wide variety of pellets? I've always wanted one, but never had an established copepod colony to be able to sustain wild caught ones.

TheShrimpNibbler · Jul 15, 2020

Should captive bred fish that come from you all still be quarantined? Or is there no risk of getting a parasite from a fish from you?

oceans garden aquaculture · Jul 15, 2020

I would always consider a QT period a good idea regardless of origin. This allows you to observe the individual habits of the new addition in a controlled environment.

Tme12 · Jul 15, 2020

Just ordered one of these guys; looking forward to watching them scoot around

TheShrimpNibbler · Jul 15, 2020

oceans garden aquaculture said:
I would always consider a QT period a good idea regardless of origin. This allows you to observe the individual habits of the new addition in a controlled environment.

I totally agree that a qt is always a good idea. The only reason I was asking is because I’ve heard that mandarins for not do well with medications and I’m not sure how to feed one in a quarantine tank. I guess I will just not get a mandarin until I have come up with a solution for how to keep one well fed in quarantine.

oceans garden aquaculture · Jul 15, 2020

TheShrimpNibbler said:
I totally agree that a qt is always a good idea. The only reason I was asking is because I’ve heard that mandarins for not do well with medications and I’m not sure how to feed one in a quarantine tank. I guess I will just not get a mandarin until I have come up with a solution for how to keep one well fed in quarantine.

I'm confused as to how you wouldn't be able to feed. They will accept pellet and frozen with no issue. It's just recommend that long term you would want to keep them in a setting where pods would also be available. Hope that clears it up a bit.

oceans garden aquaculture · Jul 15, 2020

TheShrimpNibbler said:
I totally agree that a qt is always a good idea. The only reason I was asking is because I’ve heard that mandarins for not do well with medications and I’m not sure how to feed one in a quarantine tank. I guess I will just not get a mandarin until I have come up with a solution for how to keep one well fed in quarantine.

I wouldn't recomend copper or any other meds in QT for mandarin. They have a particularly thick slime coat and as long as chemistry is good and they're feeding well, the farmed mandarin are quite hardy.