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Lindsey,

Mandarins are easily trained to accept frozen mysis. It is helpful if they don't have much competition for food in the tank during feeding and that they are in a very low current area or if you turn water moving pumps way down.
I took a small clam shell, say 1" x 2" and fixed a net around it. I think it was what garlic cloves were bought it - like 1/4" thin plastic mesh. At first I would put a frozen mysis cube in it and put it in the tank near the mandarin. Later I would just squirt the thawed mysis into the mesh.
They eventually learned to feed at the shell.
A guy in Biddeford got me Red Mandarins that were very nice and it took less that a week to get them on frozen food.

gotareef mentioned lps liking "dirty water". This is my experience as well. I was once told by A. Calfo that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible to keep a captive "mixed" reef where ALL of your corals are really happy. I learned this to be very true. Requirements to keep very healthy SPS are detrimental to many softies and LPS and the inverse is also true. I will say that there are exceptions to this and I am experimenting with it by settling on a maintenance schedule that is very lax with sometimes several months in between any water changes. I have 2 or 3 sps that don't seem to mind this. - Perfect! I use to be pretty nit-picky. Now I just don't worry about it and enjoy it. I haven't tested anything but salinity in a year or more.

Awesome!!! Thank you sooo much for your help and advice!! I really appreciate it and I'm gonna have to try the shell/net idea when I do get a manderine

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Nice! He really seems to keep any algae trimmed short. He was tiny when I got him. That's usually how I like to buy fish. Maybe a little big for this tank soon. I've been giving fish to Rick and they end up in retirement in a HUGE reef tank at The Old Port Tavern.

So, Lesser, do you have any frags? I am looking for zoas,palys, ricordia,toadstool,braincoral, hammerhead and pretty much anything colorful!!!! Rob and jsterns, this goes for you both too If you have anything let me know price and pic if poss. Thanks guys!

I would love to "stop" by, but youre about an hour and a half so I'd have to make a day of it LOL but I DO still plan to come see it SOON! I just thought if maybe you had some you could send me a few pics just to give me an idea. Not big deal, and I WILL see you sometime soon!!!