Will my spotted mandarinfish eat live brine shrimp?
Will my spotted mandarinfish eat live brine shrimp?
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2 Responses to Will my spotted mandarinfish eat live brine shrimp?
it’s really sketchy between individuals, but yes, typically they will eat live brine, you’ll want to feed freshly hatched brine shrimp. otherwise they basically have no nutritional value, their yolk sacs are what’s really nutritional about them.
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It will probably eat newly hatched baby brine shrimp but, like the previous answerer said, adult brine shrimp are nutritionally void.
You can purchase copepods, amphipods, and other ‘pods’ online and from some fish stores. If you have a refugium or separate culture tank, you could maintain your own supply of live copepods.
Here’s a really interesting account of keeping a mandarin in a 10 gallon nano reef.
http://joshday.com/mandarinfish.htm
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