Since this fish is my newest addition to my tank he gets to be fish of the week. I guess you can say I'm being a little bias. I truly love everything about this fish from the way that he eats to the way that he swims. The most noticeable aspect of this fish is its stunning colors and design it has quite the artistic feel to it. The colors just pop at you with the electric blue, turquoise green, and bright orange. They can really captivate the true beauty right in nature. You can always tell the differences between the male and female mandarins because the male will always have bigger dorsal fin with the spike right at the front compared to the female. Now the way that they swim through the water can be captivating, it has a set of fins that it uses to walk on the rock and the sand and has two separate wing like fins that it uses to hover its self around moving in almost insect wing type motion.
Things to Know: So these little guys are not for the beginner reef aquarist just for the fact that they can be a little hard to take care of in a starter tank. They usually thrive best in a more established tank because of there eating habits. They like to eat whats called copepods, they are little insect type plankton that house in marine tanks and wonder through out the tank. They naturally start growing in your tank after a year, but thanks to your LFS (local fish store) you can buy these guys in a bag to jump start the copepod's growing rate recommended to add the bag about two weeks before mandarin so they have time to multiply.
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