Demand for Mandarins that eat frozen and pellets

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Justyn

I'm just curious, but is there a demand for mandarin fish that eat frozen and pellets readily? I'm setting up a few pairs to breed and have them switched over to frozen foods. After going through this with them and seeing fat/healthy mandarins that accept frozen mysis, brine, bloodworms, and pellets; it has me wondering if there is a market for wild caught and acclimated mandarins that thrive in captivity? If so, what price would be reasonable to sale them at ($50.00)? I'm just trying to decide if I should import some high color specimens for breeding stock and then sell off the surplus once they are feeding well. After all, it does let you keep them in a nano.
 
Well, they are easy to bred (not so much to raise the fry the first few weeks however). The issue is it seems they take 1-2 years to reach saleable size. We are breedng them for the heck of it. Maybe I'll get lucky and figure out how to grow them a little faster.

My adults eat food with no problems, I was just curious if there was a demand for similar feeding adults. I think I'll be bring in a few dozen extra adults next time, get them others. Maybe I'll throw in 1-2 at the meetings for a killer door prize or something.
 
I wish mine would eat something I put in the tank, he just turns his head and swims the other way. I think you could get rid of them pretty easily.
 
Yesh, the red morph is found around Indonesia and the Southern Philippines. I've seen a few that are almost all red, pretty cool. It would be neat to try to fix the coloration to be more intense. I'll let everyone know how it goes.

@crawfish aka Bill wrote:
 
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