Show me your mandarins!!!

afboundguy · Dec 7, 2020

Let's see your mandarins!!! I'm in love with my little girl and she is quickly becoming my favorite fish in my tank. Got her back in July as a pipsqueek and now she's a fat healthy mandarin...

First day...

afboundguy · Dec 7, 2020

Some comparison shots... She barely took up a square on my frag rack when I first got her now she's almost taking up 4 of them

Anak’s Reef · Dec 17, 2020

Here’s my little girl! She hasn’t grown much, a psychedelic mandarin. She only been in the tank for about 3 months now and is very healthy and getting fatter and fatter!! She is fully on a copepod diet and it’s fairly easy to keep her even with culturing copepods for her in a 20g. Before you guys say 20g is too small, take a look at how tiny she is. When she gets old enough, I’ll upgrade, but for now, and probably for a lot longer (a couple years), she’ll be fine in here. You can see more of her on my Instagram anaks_reef! I really suggest getting on there and looking at other reefers pages, there are many of them with amazing tanks!!

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JoshH · Dec 17, 2020

@najer has some nice shots of his

Anak’s Reef · Dec 17, 2020

And yes I do realize my birdsnest has STN and isn’t doing great. He’s been moved but I don’t think I will be able to save it. My stylo also has it but it’s regrowing and recovering ever since I switched to Fritz Blue Box RPM.

TriggerFinger · Dec 17, 2020

Bump for more mandarin pics!

Fish man · Dec 17, 2020

Anak’s Reef · Dec 17, 2020

Here’s a couple people with new mandarins that wanted to show them off here. They are on Instagram and some real good reefing buddies of mine!

IG: Tankensteins_Reef (The King of Mandarins!! Mandarin questions? Ask him, he gives the best tips ever)

IG: Reefsaddict

Look at that trachy too tho

IG: Euphyllia_Queen

IG: MarineOdyssey

Anak’s Reef · Dec 18, 2020

Another from IG: Reefsaddict because the first was blurry and I can’t get enough of all this mandarin goodness.

SuncrestReef · Dec 18, 2020

OrionN · Dec 18, 2020

My Male Mandarin

banasophia · Dec 29, 2020

My little guy Finnick is a captive bred biota mandarin from Live Aquaria, I’ve had him for over 2 1/2 years now, and I keep him in my Biocube 16.

He loves Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet pellets:

john90009 · Dec 29, 2020

Uncle99 · Dec 29, 2020

fishlover1478 · Jan 31, 2021

baby mandarins are adorable!

djryan2000 · Feb 7, 2021

afboundguy said:
Let's see your mandarins!!! I'm in love with my little girl and she is quickly becoming my favorite fish in my tank. Got her back in July as a pipsqueek and now she's a fat healthy mandarin...

First day...