Frozen food and mandarins

djam

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So a few weeks ago I was running out food and made a purchase online for frozen food. I purchased [h=1]Ocean Nutrition Formula Variety Pack - 2 lbs[/h]
I like the variety and my fish seem to like it as well. My only complaint is it sinks too fast and I have to defrost it before I dump it in the tank. NOrmally I can just throw a few frozen cubes of mysis or brine they float and dissolve and the fish feed.

today i was lazy and just threw the cubes in the tank. A little later I walked by to see a cube float along the bottom of the tank with a mandarin in hot pursuit. Next thing I know I see the mandarin taking bites out of the cube, not one or two, but I watched him take no less thank six bites before one of the tangs came and stole the cube. Crazy stuff. It was hte orange cube [FONT=&quot]Special Formula VHP [/FONT]
 

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That's good news Dave. Mine eats frozen mysis out of hand when I can shield my purple tang out of the way. Mandarins are really cool fish and it's nice when they'll eat something other than pods.
 
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Very cool. I'm all about training them to PE mysis from day one. You'll never have to worry about them again once you do. You don't have a serious phosphate problem putting the cubes in frozen? I rinse well, plus I always target feed.
 
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That's good to hear. My mandarin started off eating sustainable aquatics diet hatchery pellets and now eats any frozen food I throw in. Took about 8 months tho


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