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New Mandarin and Tank Pics

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matt_longview
, 03-19-2011 at 08:21 AM (1565 Views)
Here's the new fish... my Mandarin Goby. Before anyone gets upset that a mandarin is in a 29g let me say this. He is eating frozen. He actually seems to completely ignore my live pods, he's likely tank raised. He stayed at the store he was at for over a month. During that time he ate only frozen foods and he is still fat. Before I picked him up I worked out with a bud of mine who has a 220 that if he starts getting skinny he is getting a new mandarin! lol.




Another pic of the Purple Deaths


Yellow Zoas


My Clam... I'm beginning to wonder... Crocea or Maxima?


My Clowns, still no names. Might end up sticking that way...




Goblin Fire Zoas, finally fully opened and looking great. Pics don't do them justice. :-)


Here they are under the blues. They look better in person. The orange skirts are amazing.


Dendro - I love this thing!


Kedd Redds - Not a great pic... but the best I've been able to get thus far.


My duncan has grown a TON since I picked it up. Still looking great. I still need to attach it to the rock.


Pink Birdsnest... not a good pic. Didn't get a good one. Only shown for growth if you have seen my old pics. LEDs work. :-)


Candy Apple Red Zoas - My favorite thing in the tank right now. I can see why people are paying $20 a polyp in some places!


My frogspawn. His tentacles are not out in this pic... he is much larger when they are. Has to be double the size he was when I got it from gabe. :-)


In other news, I've got too much light! lol. My acan and meteor shower are chilling in the shade right now. I thought the acan would do fine on the sandbed, but he still needs a little less light for now. I'll get him moved there soon enough. The meteor shower was a different story. I researched it but either got mixed up on my research or got some wrong information. I placed it in high light... it lost some of it's color so it's moved down as well.

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  1. Sumpmonkey's Avatar
    Hello nice looking fish and corals the mandarin looks great.We have a scooter blenny that was in 14 gallon cube so we rescued him very fat and happy in a 40 breeder was in a 29 before January did fine
  2. Pokerstar81's Avatar
    tank looks great i had a few corals loose color i knew i didnt have to much light but it was my iodide so u might want to test for just to see i was told its like sun tan lotion for the corals
  3. matt_longview's Avatar
    I'll give these guys a few days in the shade. They are both new additions... only been in for a week. Everything else is still looking great, well... except a few things weren't glued on well enough and fell over. lol
  4. Jaxom's Avatar
    Your new additions are looking good, nice pics, I hope I can find me a couple Mandarins that eat like yours is. That Dendro is one of my favorites also.
  5. melev's Avatar
    What does the body of the Mandarin look like? Is it round or do you see a horizontal rib down its side? In the first picture it appears a little skinny to me, but with her fin in the way I can't tell. It also appears to be female, unless you happen to see a long spine coming up off the front dorsal fin. FYI, Mandarins are not in the goby family. It's a mandarin, not a mandarin goby. Everytime I see them marked like that at the LFS, I tell the staff so we can break that habit. You have a Psychedelic mandarin - Synchiropus splendidus http://www.melevsreef.com/id/mandarin.html

    That clam doesn't appear to be a Maxima based on the shell's structure or lack of scutes.
  6. matt_longview's Avatar
    Yes...I'm aware of that mistake as well. Mandarin Dragonet or Psychedelic Mandarin would be the correct choice of common names. Before I researched them myself I wasn't aware that they weren't goby's either. Now that I know... I should stop using the incorrect name! Old habits die hard right. :-)



    Check these pics out and let me know if you believe she's skinny (and if you can fully say she is in fact a she!). I have done my research, but this is the first I have ever owned so I'll take experienced advise of others very quickly! :-) Thanks Marc. If she is a she, I'm very pleased. Rumor says they are easier to care for.
  7. melev's Avatar
    She still looks a little thin. You might try out the mandarin diner with some food inside to assure she can get a good fill without other fish competition.