Mandarin Goby, easy to keep!

Mandarin Goby, easy to keep! Feeding on frozen mysis and pellets.
Mandarin Dragonet Goby.
Great for pest control in a marine reef aquarium especially SPS tanks.
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[@jorgecastro6078]

Absolutely gorgeous fish. ❤

[@marinereefer1664]

Thank you.

[@jtdr2023]

Love to see your butterfly eating like that. Also love that the mandarin is doing so well. Two of my favorite fish. Both on my list for fish I want to keep. Thanks for sharing.

[@marinereefer1664]

Thanks for watching, they are also my favourite fish, such characters and they both have jobs of keeping pests out of the tank.

[@SallyEllis-s9t]

Beautiful!! Lovely fish and tank set up.

[@marinereefer1664]

Glad you like it

[@SallyEllis-s9t]

Lovely fish and tank set up!

[@marinereefer1664]

Thank you kindly

[@serkyt]

I understand that once a week is a sufficient top up for the Mandarin in your system but this could be a little misleading. Your thriving system has many critters that is keeping your Mandarin and Copperband fed and healthy but without this the frozen once per week would not be nearly enough. Great work though and I love your setup. New to your channel but glad I found it.

[@marinereefer1664]

I still feed the fish frozen every day which they must get some, I meant I just turn the pumps off and over feed the tank once a week to get the food on the bottom, wouldn’t do that every day. I also should have said they need a mature setup. But I did have a mandarin in a 100l nano for years with live rocks and clowns which was my favourite tank. Thanks for watching and check out my other videos.

[@JenniferPyman]

Great video, beautiful fish.

[@marinereefer1664]

Glad you enjoyed

[@queencityreefs]

Thanks for sharing 🙌🏻👌🏻👏🏻

[@marinereefer1664]

Hi mate, thanks for watching.

[@jules2545]

I understand the name marine reefer now. I was a matelot, I spent some time at CTC Lympstone on the senior/junior command courses. I had a Madarin for about two years, and she jumped, I agree they are fantastic fish, quite shy though.

[@marinereefer1664]

That’s funny we may have crossed paths down there, I’ve just recently retired after 26 years, so have more time on my hands now. Thought I would try and make sense of the name, you were paying attention! Yeah getting that footage was pretty tricky.

[@jules2545]

@@marinereefer1664 I suspect I was a few years before you. My time was the Falklands, NI and the first Gulf war, leaving at the start of the second Gulf war. I started reef keeping early but gave it up due to moving around, and the way they were catching the fish. Things have changed now for the better I am please to say. However I do think some of the LFS need to be a bit more particular about who they sell fish like the Mandarin and the Moorish idol to. Seeing your fish peck around the coral for frozen food is fantastic. About a year ago I bought a couple of Molly Miller blennies as they are epic Aptasia eaters. My tank was almost over run with them. They dont have swim bladders so they can't stay in the water column very long, boisterous fun fish though.

[@marinereefer1664]

Yeah, a little before my time!, same it was hard moving around and leaving the tank long periods with the mrs. Little easier now with all the dosing pumps and tech! Luckily haven’t had a problem with aptesia thanks to the copperband.

[@gnajera5109]

Lovely fish and tank. I would love to have a mandarin but I’m worried it may get bullied by my purple tang and or a flame angel who enjoys chasing a yellow wrasse. Did your mandarin was there from the beginning or did you introduce it later? Cheers

[@marinereefer1664]

Thank you, I added the mandarin after the purple tang, it was one of the last fish I added. They can hold their own against other fish when healthy.

[@DCMAN44]

Good video @marineReefer love the tank. Why do I see no sand though ? I thought Goby’s liked to dig and bury in the sand. Also what is the blue or purple and white corral the goby keeps hovering over ?

[@marinereefer1664]

Thank you, This goby isn’t a sand shifting one, classified as a dragnet fish, and doesn’t require any sand. I think the coral it likes the best is the big chalice, raja rampage grows like a weed.

[@marinereefer1664]

Or the encrusting monipora coral, which is a rainbow phoenix.

[@zakarymcleod1850]

Great video, but you should definitely consider a filter for your camera (iPhone?). The video was very blue.

[@marinereefer1664]

Thanks for the feedback, I will but the filter on next time.

[@kayodejohnson9730]

Hey your tank looks lovely lovely fish as well. What types of anthias are those?

[@marinereefer1664]

Thank you they are just the standard wreck fish anthias squamipinnis, 5 females and 1 male.

[@marinereefer1664]

*Wreck fish squamipinnis

[@pswanberg1]

their natural habitat is super dense rubble with tons of flow. they are natures hover helicopter

[@marinereefer1664]

Yeah they are awesome fish. I need to get this one a partner!

[@Danzig1387]

Dude PLEASE get a blue light filter lens. Was hard to watch this video. Good content though.

[@marinereefer1664]

Thanks for the feedback, I did it all on my iPhone so didn’t look as bad on the small screen. I will use the orange filter next time.😅

[@wereallnegan]

It looks just fine on my phone. Absolutely no issue seeing 😊

[@marinereefer1664]

Thank you, slowly getting there! I can’t believe this many people are watching it!

[@RandomvlogUKNP]

Do you sell coral? If yes how can I contact you?

[@marinereefer1664]

I do rehome some corals! in the Uk, my email is on my channel home page in the description. Please drop me a message, thank you.

[@RandomvlogUKNP]

@ Thanks! Will do