The fish below is so cool. What am I looking at?

[Unregistered User]

Any info on this fish, even just the name, would be fantastic.

 

[coil1002]

Mandrin goby

Hard to keep only eats pods usually

 

[rtparty]

Mandrin goby

Hard to keep only eats pods usually

This.

The captive bred supposedly eat frozen readily if you can find them.

 

[Idoc]

Mandarin dragonet goby... they are so beautiful! I plan on getting one, but probably not until my tank matures over a year old... definitely need an ability to keep pods multiplying for them to eat.

 

[Krzydmnd]

Beautiful fish. Resist. The. Urge. Lol! They do require a well established tank with lots of access to natural prey, copepods.

I want one too but my tank is only 5 months old and I've only been seeing various pods in my tank for just about a month and it's nowhere near what would be needed without regular additions of purchased pods from what I've read.

 

[Clownmaniowa]

They are awesome mine eats frozen out of my finger tips

 

[Unregistered User]

Mandrin goby

Hard to keep only eats pods usually

I'm ok not having one, but sure going to read up on them just because!

 

[Unregistered User]

They are awesome mine eats frozen out of my finger tips

Green with envy. :/

 

[Unregistered User]

Beautiful fish. Resist. The. Urge. Lol! They do require a well established tank with lots of access to natural prey, copepods.

I want one too but my tank is only 5 months old and I've only been seeing various pods in my tank for just about a month and it's nowhere near what would be needed without regular additions of purchased pods from what I've read.

I'm in this for the long haul, like decades, no rush. Promise.

 

[coil1002]

There are captive b

I'm ok not having one, but sure going to read up on them just because!

they have captive bred ones now that eat frozen. I had a wild one 12 years ago I bought for my 30 gallon i had a refugium and a high copod population. It did well for years after about a year it started eating frozen mysis. They are not impossible to keep just challenging and you want a mature tank with peaceful fish. No dick damsels or clowns LOL

 

[SGreene]

I kept one for over a year. It was eating pretty much everything I was feeding my tank. I saw it gobble up pallets one after another but unfortunately, like it happens to most everyone, it started to stave and died. There were plenty of pods in the tank, I could see them everywhere. I'm not going to get another just to kill it it after one year.

 

[mmw64]

Any info on this fish, even just the name, would be fantastic.

Green Mandarin

 

[Greybeard]

Google 'Spotted dragonette'. I've always liked those better than the other variants

Yes to all of the above. Most will only eat live critters, copepods, mysid and gammarus shrimp, that sort of thing. Requires a fairly large, mature, healthy aquarium to support a dragonette. ORA is now breeding all three... and scooter dragonettes as well. This is one fish that I'd say is well worth spending the extra money on a captive bred specimen. Otherwise, you stand a good chance of watching it slowly starve to death.