psychedelic mandarin eating...

[jamal]

my newer mandarin has decided that fish can not live by bread or copepods alone and chose to sample mysis shrimp today. yay!

[djcerna]

Mine will only eat PE mysis.

[tygger]

Nice.... where did you get it from?

[jamal]

i got her from scales. i had a bit of trouble finding a female but i went there and they happened to have one so i lucked out

[Freezerburn]

I don't know how many times I've been strait up lied to by a LFS back in florida. I'd be staring a skin and bones, then ask if it was alright and she would tell me yah it eats like a pig but each time frozen food was put in for demonstration bits of mysis would just bounce right off a mandarins head while it stood there in confusion looking for food. :(

[jamal]

from what i read it is an exception rather than a rule. he just chose to eat

[zotzer]

Isn't it awesome when you are prepared for a "special needs" fish, and it turns out to eat other foods!??!

 

It eventually happened with my supposedly finicky Potter's angel too. It's now a joy to see him racing the other fish to dinner, even when I feed pellet or flake. Every time I approach the tank, he and the piglette female clown are right there in my face, begging for food. LOL

 

Congrats!!

Tracy