Baby Blue Mandarin Dragonette Saltwater fish.

This is a tiny, tiny baby mandarin. A saltwater fish that requires you to have an established tank with alot of little "pods" (little critters) to eat. He is in my 40 gallon fuge and will go into my 125 gallon tank when he gets bigger. Sorry but my camera is not very good.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Mandarin
• blue
• dragonette
• goby
• saltwater
• fish
• coral
• tanks
• refugium
• fuge

[Teremei]

Yes I had him in the fuge because he was too delicate to survive in the main tank with large fish. This guy eventually got bigger and then I sold him to a local reefer. At that time I was going to leave the hobby. I almost tore down my whole tank but I have stayed in the hobby and I've got all new fish and rocks. The only fish I still have from before is a 6 year old beautiful Coral Beauty. I couldn't push myself to get rid of her.

[Teremei]

@daintyhyena you didn't read the description, she was in my 40 gallon fuge, which was attached to my 125 gallon main display, which had over 200# of live rock.

[28GallonBowfront]

Do you know anyplace where you can buy green mandarins that are tank raised or are trained to eat prepared foods?

[JUNAID187]

looks like a sub adult to me.

[nokia6630videos]

so where is he now ???

got big enough ?

[lilalancarey]

ive had one in my 46g tank for a long time. i also kept one in a 20g living basicly on very few pods and spirulina brine shrimp. tank didnt crash. fish didnt die.

[D3monicUrges]

I have a pair of drogonets in my 28 gal nano cube that are doing very well. I did almost crash my tank in the beginning trying to find foods they like but now just stick to enriched hikari mysis and brine. Not to mention the 5 gal fuge crawling with pods of all shapes and sizes. I keep a good size CC and other inhabitants so no food goes un eaten.

[daominous]

Dragonets are one of my favorite animals on earth. So colorful!

[daintyhyena]

give him to somebody with a bigger tank...what size tank do you have? the wholesalers will tell you that its possible to keep them in 50 gallons.....there just arent enough pods in anything less than 100 gallons. Even if you supplement with frozen, smaller tanks will crash from the dead frozen stuff. good luck.