Keeping Mandarins?

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Originally Posted by thefishgirl

Holy Dragonet! That George is really hamming it up for the camera!

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George is very photogenic, he's by far my favorite in that tank. I just wish I would have taken the time to the to bust out the DSLR instead of the horrible Cell Pic. I love the Galaxy Nexus, but the camera leaves much to be desired.

i just got a tiny 1" target mandarin to add to my existing red mandarin :)

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Originally Posted by demonclownfish

i just got a tiny 1" target mandarin to add to my existing red mandarin :)

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Congratulations DC :highfive3:

I would like to introduce you all to Dilly! She came in today via FedEx, where I picked her up at the station. Drip acclimated for 1 1/2hrs then added to my tank via the Becky Box :) Where I'll be keeping her until I'm comfortable enough to release her. She active, alert and much fatter and larger then Pickles was.

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pretty positive that "Dilly" is in fact a "David" :D

Ok getting frustrated beyond the norm here. I'm using a glass jar as a feeding station for Dilly. 3 times a day I add Ova/pellets and 3 times a day I'm fighting off the bristle worms, snails and hermits. WTH do I do. Dilly comes to the jar the minute she see's it but by the time she gets into it most if not all the food is gone :(

Well I've discovered that Maxi Mini's love to eat bristle worms out of this whole adventure :)

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Originally Posted by MizTanks

Ok getting frustrated beyond the norm here. I'm using a glass jar as a feeding station for Dilly. 3 times a day I add Ova/pellets and 3 times a day I'm fighting off the bristle worms, snails and hermits. WTH do I do. Dilly comes to the jar the minute she see's it but by the time she gets into it most if not all the food is gone :(

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I think I'm confused Miz - You're placing the feed jar in the QT box right? How are they getting into the box? Do you have it sitting on the substrate? If so, simply raise the box and nothing should be able to reach it.

If you're no longer using the box, then as Chris suggests, feed the rest of the tank just prior.

Sorry for the lack of info. Dilly was only to excited to get out of the box so I let her out right away. She's doing wonderfully in the tank. :)

If you've got a spare mag float, and room. Just replace your glass jar with a plastic water bottle, cut the top off. Put one part of the mag float in the plastic bottle, and attach the other side of the mag float like normal( on the outside of you tank) and voila! You have a "floating" feeding station. Just suspend it a couple of inches higher than the worms, snails, and crabs can reach. Then dilly can just swim over them and get her dinner.