HI George: Mybe you got lucky and got a male and a female. I have both the
male has a spike on his dorsal fin and the female doesn't She also has
lighter coloration on her head. They ge along great. Bill
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KurtG wrote:

btw, I was able to get the mandarin to eat frozen brine shrimp. Poor
thing must be starved. It should hold him for a few days until the
copepods show up.

I ordered some from
http://www.inverts.com/Merchant2/mer...Store_Code=CRA

$17.50 for a 4 oz. bottle, plus $15.00 shipping.

My situation is a bit different. I thought I had enough pods established,
so I ordered a Mandarin. My wife works near the store, so I sent her down
to pick it up when it came in. The store owner was on the phone, the kid
bagging fish put two in the bag, and Elisabeth didn't know any better. So
I ordered some pods and hope they'll co-exist ok. So far, one stays on the
left end of the tank, and the other one tends to roam. There are brief
fireworks when he/she roams over to the left end (which is to be
expected). Neither one seems to be losing or gaining weight.

George Patterson
Forgive your enemies. But always remember who they are.