Quarantine tips for Dragonet?

[WallysWorld]

I’m having having a medium sized Mandarin Dragonet shipped to me this week. I have my quarantine tank all set up and ready.

Looking for tips to improve chances of success. I’m a little concerned about feeding in QT, my display has lots of copepods.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Brad Miller]

I assume you don't know what the Madarin was used to eating...I would find out if possible.
Then you can make feeders and come up with a plan....if you can't find out, then experimentation will have to do.

What's your qt like? And will the mandarin be the only livestock in it ?

 

[Huff747]

Can hatch baby brine shrimp or try a white worm culture, or both. If it’s a sterile QT you’d have to buy a boatload of pods to keep it happy.

For my target mandarin I would buy some live brine from my LFS, then I started mixing in frozen spirilina brine and now he’ll go after most frozen when I feed the rest of the tank. But I still hatch and feed baby brine shrimp and white worms although I think my wrasse gets most of the worms.

 

[WallysWorld]

I assume you don't know what the Madarin was used to eating...I would find out if possible.
Then you can make feeders and come up with a plan....if you can't find out, then experimentation will have to do.

What's your qt like? And will the mandarin be the only livestock in it ?

Standard 10g tank, HOB filter with a power head for extra flow. I've got a couple of PVC joints and T's for some cover. There will be two animals in QT, the Mandarin and a Watchman Goby.

 

[Reefpuck]

It may eat mysis. I have 2 red dragonets. One eats frozen and one doesn't. Hit or miss.

I didn't qt either though cuz I've heard they got a strong resistance to ich because of their slime coat.

Best of luck.

 

[Tamberav]

They generally will take live foods and fish roe with little problem.

 

[norfolkgarden]

It may eat mysis. I have 2 red dragonets. One eats frozen and one doesn't. Hit or miss.

I didn't qt either though cuz I've heard they got a strong resistance to ich because of their slime coat.

Best of luck.

Lol, yes they are typhoid Mary (you may need to Google that one)
A ruby dragonette may have taken out a good portion of our fish a while back.
Was afraid to QT knowing it should be able to forage ok in the tank.

So in the acclimation box for a day and then swim away.
Bad idea. [emoji53]