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Posted	Mandarin needs help!!
20-02-2006 11:23 by laura	Dear All, Please can you help? I have a little mandarin who I have had for about two weeks now. He has had a bit of the spot but I thought he had goten over it. It seems that over night he has taken a turn for the worse. He has a sallow belly and isn't moving at all. Also his colours aren't as bright. He isn't eating either. I have seperated him and put in some cuprazin. Also tested the water. Nothing really out of the ordinary, nitrate at 50mg/L but it hasn't affected him before. Please please can anyone help as I am very fond of him!!!
20-02-2006 13:25 by BradsDad	Hi Laura, I'm afraid I don't know too much about Mandarin's other than they are very fussy eaters. From what I know they will usually only eat copepods that are alive in your tank. You need a lot of live rock to support the pods as the mandarins eat all the time. If you haven't enough food in your tank he may not make it. Has he eaten since you bought him ?
20-02-2006 14:55 by laura	Hey thanks for the answer but he died earlier. I am gutted. He was eating, he had taken to frozen brine shrimp and glass worms etc. Really not sure what happened. Have a feeling it may be something to do with the shop I got him from as I hadn't had him that long.
20-02-2006 18:07 by Ed	Brads dad hit the nail on the head.
21-02-2006 08:16 by Alan	*** thing out so I lost some stunning little fish. If I hadn't lost the tang I expect he would still be going. I found presentation of the food was very important. I used to put the food behind the weir in my upstream sump this would give a trickle of food into the tank that would just allow the food to be dispearsed through out the tank and waft about so the fish had to go looking for it. This enabled the mandarin to hunt it so to speak he was a fat little blighter once I get my tank sorted (financial problems) I will be keeping a mandarin again perhaps even a pair and I may see if I can get them to spawn.
21-02-2006 08:20 by Alan	Argh I said d@mn again. Basically before I was so rudely interupted by *** I was saying I lost a tang behind the rock work in my reef and I couldn't get him out and as such I lost some stunning little fish including, which was the point of the post, a stunning little mandarin that I had weened on to frozen foods with careful presentation of the food. The stunning little fish I lost were the mandarin a rather large fridmani basslet and a stunning scarlett hawk fish.
21-02-2006 13:37 by BradsDad	Hi Laura, I'm so sorry for your loss If he was eating then that could suggest either aclimatisation problem or water quality problem. Have you tested your parameters lately ?

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