Goby or Blenny

anyone have ideas how to entice a mandarin to eat frozen?  Will they eat Cyclop-ezee?

I slowly weened my mandarin off of live and onto frozen with the help of Chris at fish 4 U.

It was a pain in the rear.

Here is what I did. I obtained a large syringe (like the kind they give you after getting your wisdom teeth pulled) and attached a small length of flexible airline hose and then a long piece of rigid tube that could reach into the tank with out having to put my hands in the water (So you don't scare the fish).

I then bought some live food from Chris (brine and freshwater bloodworms) I would suck the live food into the tube and spot feed the mandarin. After a while he knew that the tube meant food and he would swim right to it once it was in the water. I slowly started adding frozen brine and mysis to the tube. When he would eat the frozen from the tube without any problems I started to become messy when feeding so he had some competition from the other fish. With time I was able to feed it with the other fish, but he is still quite a slow eater (gotta eyeball that food real good before going after it).

I think the real secret to these fish is tons of live rock and no competitive eaters in the tank (they will deplete your pod population). I started him in a 55g but he is way happier and fatter in my 150g.

I have had the fish for about 3 years now, they are very good fish if you can keep them fed.

Hope that helps.