Mating Mandarin's! [Archive]

RLaForce

11-27-2009, 09:58 PM

Just caught my mandarin's mating, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about how to raise them?

Barelycuda

11-27-2009, 10:12 PM

Congratulations. You should check out www.marinebreeder.org . That is the MOFIB site and there are a number of people that are/have bread mandarins. I believe that you will have to get a copepod culture going to raise the young. Also you may want to check out the book "The Complete Illustrated Breeder's Guide to Marine Aquarium Fishes" by Matthew Wittenrich. You can also do a google search on matt wittenrich with the mandaring gobies as he has personally reared the babies.

Best of luck.

Dave

nnewhouse

11-29-2009, 01:25 AM

There was a really good article in the recent Coral Magazine about breeding mandarins.

CA2OR

11-29-2009, 01:27 AM

it was like 2 issues ago....recent indeed.

nnewhouse

11-29-2009, 01:51 AM

Thanks for the correction

CA2OR

11-29-2009, 01:57 AM

no correction....I might be wrong. But I thought it was just an issue or 2 ago. This issue is the Triggers isn't it?

cee

12-26-2009, 10:52 AM

This might help. good luck!

http://microcosmaqx.typepad.com/matt_wittenrich/

jgf86123

12-26-2009, 01:35 PM

hey laforce, how's the mating mandarins coming along?