I am not sure if I am just lucky or what. I have purchased 2 Mandarins at separate times and I have not had any difficulty in getting them to feed on frozen brine shrimp and bloodworms. The trick is to put the food right in front or around it. This means that you would have to lure the other fishes elsewhere before you feed the Mandarin.It may ignore them the first few times but after a while, it will learn to accept them (much like getting a Lionfish to accept non-live food). In fact, the second one that I had even swims up and competes with the other fishes in getting its share of the bloodworms.
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