WMAS Discussion Forum : spotted mandarin http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:29:12 +0000 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:55:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.03 360 www.utahreefs.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12715 <![CDATA[WMAS Discussion Forum]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/1by1.gif http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/ <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : ok so i got the scooter blenny....]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=118082&title=spotted-mandarin#118082 Author: Ryan Thompson
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 22 2006 at 3:55pm

ok so i got the scooter blenny. so far he is doing good. he has been in for one day so you cant tell anything really right now. i see him grazing on the rocks. i just hope it eats shrimp now that he has been moved. thanks for all your advice]]> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:55:01 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=118082&title=spotted-mandarin#118082 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : My best-est most honest advice...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117314&title=spotted-mandarin#117314 Author: sukie
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 14 2006 at 2:20pm

My best-est most honest advice is wait on either. . . . but if you wantto speed up the process I think you can buy more pods and put them inyour refugium and wait a couple months.  If you got a huge numberthen get one. 
Or just wait 6mos-1yr and get one then.  Thumbs Up
]]> Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:20:06 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117314&title=spotted-mandarin#117314 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : well i wont get both. i will either...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117308&title=spotted-mandarin#117308 Author: Ryan Thompson
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 14 2006 at 1:42pm

well i wont get both. i will either get a scooter or a mandarin. which one will have the better chance in my tank?]]> Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:42:18 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117308&title=spotted-mandarin#117308 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : The Scooter Blenny and the Mandarin...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117257&title=spotted-mandarin#117257 Author: Mark Peterson
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 13 2006 at 10:43pm

The Scooter Blenny and the Mandarin have almost exactly the same eating habits. It would cause starvation to place both in a single tank without ensuring sufficient small bugs for their nutritional needs.

That Pseudochromis is a bully partly because of it's nature, but perhaps even more so because it is competing for the same food as the Scooter Blenny.
 
The article Herbivores versus Carnivores in the June 2001 SeaStar Online is very informative with regard to all this. Here is the link: http://www.utahreefs.com/SeaStar/SeaStarJunePrint.pdf


Edited by Mark Peterson - June 13 2006 at 10:44pm]]> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:43:35 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117257&title=spotted-mandarin#117257 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : Mark- you may be right about the...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117243&title=spotted-mandarin#117243 Author: kgwilliams
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 13 2006 at 9:16pm

Mark- you may be right about the anemone theory.  All I know is that he was fat and happy one day, and dead the next.  And none of my other fish had any problems.  And come to find out I even had a pods in my tank, I just didn't realize it until the mandarin died and the population grew.
 
Anyways, rtparty, I really like my red scooter blenny!  I don't think that they are really that hard to keep, mine eats frozen brine.  Just make sure you don't have anything else in your tank that will pick on it.  My bicolor psuedochromis gives mine hell, it's really starting to bother "scooter", you can tell he's stressed.  That's one fish I will never suggest. . . psuedochromis.  They are bullys!
]]> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:16:02 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117243&title=spotted-mandarin#117243 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : yes i have a refugium that has...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117168&title=spotted-mandarin#117168 Author: Ryan Thompson
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 13 2006 at 1:30pm

yes i have a refugium that has a pretty good pod population but i dont know how good. i might do it i might not. is a scooter blenny ok right now? i have read they are difficult to keep but they also say copperbands are hard to keep. i have kept my copperband now for about 3 weeks. it loves to eat shrimp!

Edited by rtparty - June 13 2006 at 1:31pm]]> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:30:57 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117168&title=spotted-mandarin#117168 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : Unfortunately Kevin, most people...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117153&title=spotted-mandarin#117153 Author: Gahlenfr
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 13 2006 at 11:32am

Unfortunately Kevin, most people will read your last sentence and say great, I can do that too.  I agree with you but how many are going to go to that extent to keep 1 fish?  Be patient.  Even doing what Kevin suggests takes time.

]]> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:32:39 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117153&title=spotted-mandarin#117153 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : IME I think that if you attached...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117140&title=spotted-mandarin#117140 Author: Kevin F
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 13 2006 at 9:56am

IME I think that if you attached a refugium to your system, andpurchased a pod culture for your tank you could add a manderin in amonth or so.

The reason everyon suggests large tanks is so thereis ample room forthe pods to breed without there populations being decimated by themanderins feeding habits. If you give the pods a place to breed wherethey can not be directly effected by the eating manderin, your podpopulation will fair much better.

I have kept spotted manderins in tanks ranging from 18 to 75g all with succsess.
]]> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:56:31 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117140&title=spotted-mandarin#117140 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : kgwilliams wrote:I had one...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117129&title=spotted-mandarin#117129 Author: Mark Peterson
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 13 2006 at 8:13am

Originally posted by kgwilliams kgwilliams wrote:

I had one for quite a while until my anemone got him.  My tank wasn't very old when I got him, but I got lucky because he would eat frozen brine.  
  I'm thinking about getting another one!
 
Sorry, but the truth is: That Mandarin was only barely keeping itself alive on frozen brine shrimp. Eventually it declined until it was too weak to care or to get away from one anemone tentacle which dragged it closer until more tentacles latched on and pulled it in. With only one exception, which Adam may tell us about, a healthy fish cannot get captured and eaten by an anemone. Sorry, but you should stay away from Mandarins for that tank.
]]> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:13:49 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117129&title=spotted-mandarin#117129 <![CDATA[spotted mandarin : It is STRONGLY recommended for...]]> http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117104&title=spotted-mandarin#117104 Author: Dion Richins
Subject: 12715
Posted: June 12 2006 at 11:02pm

It is STRONGLY recommended for a minimum of 100G and 1-1.5y old. Most of us have done with smaller tanks but only with the luck of a Mandarin that eats frozen.]]> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:02:39 +0000 http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12715&PID=117104&title=spotted-mandarin#117104