Mandarin Diner explained (filmed in 2005)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Back in 2005, I came up with the idea to feed my timid mandarin fish with a tall slender (olive) jar. I called it the Mandarin Diner. Here's my article with more pictures: melevsreef.com...
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Those Tangs just can't understand why all the food in the tank isn't theirs lol their lips crack me up
Aquarist are the most creative bunch of people. We'll probably achieve world peace.. lol. Good archive vid.
My green mandarin did amazing on New Life Spectrum small fish until a tank crash killed everything. I really miss him. His name was Spike.
You keep serprising me day after day. After every video i watch for you i realise how ammature am i after 6 years of saltwater fish. You need to be on national geographic
We all keep learning all the time, including me. But thanks. :)
This is the kind of Saltwater tips I dig!
I came across this video today (2021), 4 years after you posted it. Thanks for posting it, what a fantastic idea and great to see it eating. I will try it tomorrow.
You're making want to get back into saltwater! New subscriber here!
What a great tip! I was really worried about getting a Mandarin because of my nano setup. I may give this a try now. Thanks for sharing!
Those are THE fatest and healthiest fish I have ever seen! I am going to try this. Thanks as always!
That was real interesting how they figured out how to get the food.I can't believe they were eating pellets that's great.
The fish is like.... first no privacy with my man now it is enough to feed me this pellet shit food. LoL... Oh! Ho! Get yo fins away from my man......LoL. Let me get this B. LoL
Great info and idea... enjoyed it for sure
I've been told by Big Al's I can't have a Mandarin since i only have a 40 gallon tank, and that they need at least a 100 gallon since they eat live food. I would love to have a pair. Nice to see this where they are in a 30 gallon.
I'm amazed they loved all the random food.. mine like pods or mysis.. havent seen him eat pellets yet
What a great idea props to you.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing!!
Nice video and great Idea :)
that's so neat! Thanks for letting know about the brine shrimp I'll try that out too!
Great idea! Never kept that fish because I heard they are really tough to maintain.
Beautiful clever fish and great channel. New Sub
try an iteration with a widened base like a light bulb to make turning to get out easier.
Good image quality!
I'm happily surprised, considering how old the video file was.
Thank you for sharing. I may look into getting a Mandarin now.
Great idea thanks for sharing!
It's amazing thank for your videos
That's Brilliant!!! Thank you for giving me an idea on how to get Mandarin to eat ...it eats now but not enough due to the other fish I have I'll try this out with brine shrimp cause mine eats that .
I used to use live baby brine shrimp in jar as well. I used to hatch them out, they'd be 24 hours old. It looked pretty neat seeing them in a pile at one end, many buzzing around in that area for the mandarin to consume.
Wish I knew you existed when I had purchased my Red Sea Max. I no longer have it. We had such issues with aptasia and algae blooms. It was bad. We had it for about 3 years then sold it. We had lovely fish and crabs and live corals.
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That was an enjoyable blast from your past! I've been milling over getting a mandarin. My 10g has so many pods they coat the glass and cloud the water column.
That is a tiny tank. This species would be in heaven for a few days, but it better be willing to eat prepared food thereafter. Mandarins eat all day long, and sleep hard at night. :)
melevsreef yea I figured they would decimate the population in no time. That's why I have not pulled the trigger.
6 line! Eats nori and loves mysis
Powerslayer it would be sharing the tank with a cinnamon clown tho, whatever I put in there probably needs to stay out of his way, although six lines can hold there own too I guess
Maybe hold out until you set up a larger aquarium, perhaps. :)
Yeah, have to do something like this in a tank with bigger more aggressive fish or your mandorins will starve...
Great idea!
Mandarin Diner sounds like the name for the title of a book :) --vanessa
Nice video...my mandarins survive on frozen brine shrimp...nice video....
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I did enjoy it 😯
This is as for sure I like this information
did you have to train them to eat the pellets or did they do that naturally? what i keep hearing about them is that they only want to eat live.
This is fantastic:)
Thats genius actually.. u found a way to feed them..
Clever 😀
Do you still feed your mandarins like this? very cool .
Cool idea 🖒🖒🖒
Seeing you had both types of mandarin but did you just have 1 male of 1 type or did you get a male spotted mandarin as well? Assume 2 males (1 of each type) still wouldn't get along.
Yes, I had two pairs. Two males of the same species do not live together in an aquarium.
That's cool, was always to worried adding a male of each type seeing how viciously they can fight.
what about gluing small bits of rock to give the mandarins some privacy while eating???
Fish eggss..... haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa LIGHT BULB WENT OFF! 💡 i just bought a mandarin a yellow tang and purple queen anthia. I will try a feedimg session tmrw i do not have enough copopods i think my clownfish ate them all. But if i out some tiny fish eggs or brine shrimp in the area my mandarine dragonet hangs out on a particular sand bed im confident it will taste them! What brand or type of granules did you use?
That’s brilliant thank you
wouldnt this also attract bristle worms?
All I've got to say is WOW
I think it is a fantastic video. I tried this but my Mandarin cannot figure out (so far) howo to get in there. It is just trying to nip at the close end of the bottle where all the pellets are. Waiting game!
Line up the bottle with the spot where the mandarin tends to glide across regularly, keeping the lip of the jar opening even with the sandbed. Your fish should figure out how to get in there, you just have to be patient. It could take a few attempts for it to learn this is a regular spot to eat.
@@melevsreef yes trying. Hoping shrimps dont get in there first!
@@kamranasif2004 That's okay, maybe the mandarin will notice that and learn.
@@melevsreef what do I do if the food remains uneaten. Leave it there which can result in rotting or try again the next day? I am using a 500ml water bottle here which is different to what you used.
@@kamranasif2004 I'd leave in in the tank 10 minutes at the most, then pull it. You don't want rotting food adding to algae issues.
So you had 2 mated pairs? I couldn't keep a regular mandarin and a psychedelic together in a 180. Whichever one was in first just harassed the other one so I had to remove one. Also several years ago.
Yes, I did. It was in a 280g reef.
Great video! you said you had 4 mandarins and I believe all four show up in the video two green and two target mandarins are this three females and one male ? Or how did you manage to have four of them without them fitting?
The Targets were male/female, and the Psychedelics were male/female.
Haha I love this
I want a mandarin so bad! But I don’t think my tank is ready. Do you still have mandarins in your tank?
Yes, I have one in my 400g that I bought in 2011.
melevsreef Nice! May I ask what/how you feed it? (Assuming it may be different from 2005)I have pods in my refugium just for a future mandarin.
I feed my reef heavily, especially at night. The mandarin hasn't lost any weight, so it's finding food via foraging as well as whatever I add to the tank daily.
melevsreef I see. Thank you!
Why do you call spock a her? It has streamers which is what the males have. So isn't spock a boy then?
When I got that fish, it was a female. It didn't have streamers at all. Over the past few years, she has begun to grow a lower streamer, but no upper streamer. So, not really male yet. ;)
Back in the 90's I had a mandarin that would eat flake food from my finger tips.
Did you originally train the Mandarins to accept dry food or did they transition on their own? If trained, what was your technique?
I happened to notice my orginal mandarin eating pellets in my 29g, purely by chance. But knowing that information is what lead to this feeding method. I talked about it in the video.
@@melevsreef So all three happened to eat pellets with no training process? That is a pretty good sign that most Mandarins will eat that formula of pellets... That, or you were extremely luck...
I was born a few months later
lol!
they act the same way scooter blennies do......