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BIOTA Green Mandarin

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$99

Our Biota Captive Bred Mandarins offer a hardy and sustainable alternative to wild-caught specimens with easier care requirements. Once trained on a diet of Live and Frozen foods, your Mandarin can graze naturally on Pods during the day and fatten up on frozen foods at feeding time. See below for detailed diet information.

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  • Size at Time of Shipping:  .75″ to 1″ length
  • Current Diet: Live Copepods
  • Can be Trained to Eat Pellet and Frozen Food: Yes
  • Fish AoA and 7 Day Guaranteed: Yes

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Green Mandarin Dragonet

The BIOTA Green Mandarin Dragonette (Synchiropus splendidus) is a bottom-dwelling creature that displays a wild mix of wavy patterns and beautiful bright colors–green, orange, red and blue making them one of the most sought after and attractive fish in the world (its distinctive blue pigments are unique to the genus).

Quick Stats

  • Size at time of shipping:  .75″ to 1″ length
  • Current Diet: Live Copepods
  • Can be Trained to Eat pellet and frozen food: Yes
  • Fish AoA and 7 Day Guaranteed: Yes

Why Captive Bred Dragonets?

Our Biota Captive Bred Mandarins offer a hardy and sustainable alternative to wild-caught specimens with easier care requirements. Trained on a diet of live and frozen foods including Can O Cyclops, BeneReef by Benepets, PE Calanus, V2O Cyclops, frozen baby brine shrimp, live NanoBrine™ Brine Shrimp and 5280 Pods™ Live Copepods your mandarin dragonette can graze on pods during the day and then fatten up on frozen foods at feeding time. The Mandarin Dragonet will not accept frozen ADULT BRINE OR FULL SIZE MYSIS when they are first shipped. Once they have reached a larger size, they will accept adult brine and mysis. 

Buy A Green Mandarin with Confidence

Every BIOTA Captive Bred Green Mandarin Dragonet we sell comes with a 100% Alive On Arrival Guarantee and a 7 Day Health Guarantee. While captive-bred fish are in general more adaptable to captive conditions, the difference between cultured and wild specimens of this species is considerable, as wild individuals much more frequently refuse food and starve to death. We make sure all fish are healthy and eating during an observation and conditioning period before offering them for sale. We will not sell a fish we wouldn’t buy ourselves! 

*Overnight shipping is required on all orders containing live fish* 

Failure to select overnight shipping at checkout will complicate and delay your order. This item requires overnight shipping and does not qualify for the free shipping over $40 service. Due to the extremely limited supply of our Biota Green Mandarin Dragonet, they are excluded from all sales, coupons, offers, PodPoints redemptions, or other discounts*

**Mandarin Dragonets are Shipped Directly from BIOTA Facilities and not from AlgaeBarn**

While this change in our policy is one that helps keep your fish under stress for less time and provides you the animals direct from the BIOTA facility, please note the following:

  • While they are very good at the identification of their male and female dragonets over at the BIOTA facility, we cannot guarantee the gender of the Mandarin Dragonet at this time. Since these fish are small and the males can sometimes show aggression towards other males, their dorsal fin can sometimes be slightly damaged (which will heal with time). However, this means gender assessment is far more difficult for fish with any damaged dorsal fins.
  • For all DOA claims, AlgaeBarn is your point of Contact, NOT BIOTA. Please reach out to AlgaeBarn for customer support.

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Weight 2 lbs
Dimensions 3.98 × 3.98 × 3.98 in
Size

Male .75-1", Female .75-1"

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Andrew Campbell

BIOTA Green Mandarin

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Camden

I purchased a male mandarin dragonet for my reef tank. The fish arrived very small. I would say just smaller than 3/4 of an inch. He was extremely malnourished and had ripped-up fins. I knew right away he could not go into my reef tank as he wouldn't make it. So, he has his own 10-gallon tank with another docile goby. I feed him live baby brine shrimp once a day with pumps off for 3 hours. I use a HOBBY, brine shrimp hatchery dish (highly recommended) I also use my own Paul B mandarin feeder. He refuses to eat any other frozen food, but he will pick at TDO B-2 pellets. He has been under my care for over half a year. He is fat, healthy, and a little bigger than an inch long. A truly beautiful fish that can be difficult to keep. But with enough experience and developing a method to learn how to cater to this fish's feeding behaviors it will be all worth it. The best part is the fish is captive bred meaning no collectors are taking this gorgeous fish from the planet's oceans.

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Llovane Garcia

These mandarins are really tiny but worth the price and very hardy compared to the wild caught ones. My mandarin was less then an inch big when I got him and he is getting bigger each week. I still have not seen my mandarin eat pellets or brine shrimp but I do have plenty of copepods in my tank. I highly recommend getting a captive bred mandarin!

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tonymutti

I bought mine directly from BIOTA, but the same high quality fish. They are really tiny. Really, really, really tiny. I put the pair in my very established 120g with lots of live rock. I don’t see them too often because of how small they are, but 4 weeks later they are growing very quickly - nearly doubled in size. I’ve owned Mandarin’s in the past and these were the easiest. Right now they are only eating pieces of frozen food, and some tiny pellets I soak in sea water and feed pretty close to the fish. All good so far!

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ALBERT

Purchased 2 pairs and both died within 2 weeks. Never found the bodies of 2 bc they were SO SMALL
They are not large enough to be sold and it is criminal Feel bad for the fish

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