Mandarin Dragonet Training

This is old footage of my green/blue mandarin dragonet. It was kept inside a plastic container for a few weeks, and fed a diet of live brine shrimp which gradually transitioned to frozen mysis and arctipods. It's now been released into the biocube, and readily welcomes a variety of food.

-TBM
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[donottrytoreadthis]

how did you keep it alive in that container for the time it was in there

[TheBettaMaster]

@donottrytoreadthis Close monitoring.

[wantsome480]

Cool video I might have to try that sometime. What is that blue/black fish at the end of the video?

[TheBettaMaster]

Javanese Damselfish.

[Poreoxide]

that fish is AWESOME!!! and is that its fry?

[TheBettaMaster]

It's his food.

[varmman]

omg! that's exctly what i did to train him into eatg brine/mysis shrimp...but he died 2days later!! :((

[1ssssjts]

good idea except in my 90 gallon its impossible to catch him

[sebandersenwood]

@won0312

they require a knowledge of basic chemistry. you must maintain various ion concentrations:

amonia:0mg/l

nitrite:0mg/l

nitrate: <5mg/l

specific grvity: 1.023-1.025

calcium: 370-470 (most comonly around 400)

KH 7-12 depending on style of tank and inhabitants.

and many more. also, some corals require feeding 2 times a day. i have spent over £700 on lighting alone (it is a very expensive hobby), you must start with a large tank or water chemistry mistakes will be exaggerated.

[won0312]

are the corals hard to keep? cuz it looked relly nice in ur vid and im thinking of getting them

[kinkeebeatz]

That looks like Stitch from Lilo & Stitch cartoon! I'm getting one!

[thedee150]

so u put it in a overflow box but not actually hooked up and u put food in it to train it to eat food ?

[Th3mast3r69]

What exactly are you trying to teach him again!??? Annoying song by the way lol.

[Tempdoom]

No that was his food they are very picky eaters and thy like small feeder shrimps and prefer copepods, dont need to be fed if you have copepods in a refugium for him to eat.

[Jpieka19]

EAT THE FOOD!! -napolian dynomite voice

[TWhite2345]

So cute he looked like he was being petted by the wavy thing in the bottom of net