Complete Mandarin Keeper's Library: All Three Guides Bundle
Three guides. One complete system. Everything between the moment you decide to keep a mandarin and the moment it reaches year seven.
The Complete Mandarin Keeper's Library brings together all three guides in the Keeping Mandarins Alive series: The Right Start, Feeding Mandarins That Refuse to Die, and Long-Term Care and Troubleshooting, at a single price that saves you £6 on buying individually.
80 pages of authoritative, practical guidance written by Darren, Director of Reefphyto Ltd, with 18+ years of professional marine aquaculture experience, not recycled forum advice.
One complete PDF download of all three guides combined, delivered to your inbox immediately after purchase.
If you have just bought a mandarin or are planning to and want to understand exactly what it takes to keep one alive long-term, this e-book is the right decision.
The Complete Three-Guide Series
The mandarin goby has a reputation for being impossible to keep. That reputation is partly earned, it is a genuinely demanding fish. But the keepers whose mandarins live long, healthy lives are not working with better equipment or secret knowledge. They have the right preparation, the right feeding system, and the habit of paying attention.
The Complete Mandarin Keeper's Library gives you all three. Written by Darren, Director of Reefphyto Ltd, drawing on 18+ years of professional marine aquaculture experience, these three guides take you from setup and sourcing through to long-term health management, disease response, and breeding. For a free overview of mandarin care fundamentals, our complete mandarin dragonet care guide covers the essentials.
What Is Included
Guide 1: The Right Start (£7.99 individually). Tank requirements that actually matter. Captive-bred vs wild-caught, the honest version. How to assess a fish's health before you buy it. Compatibility, tank mates, and the six-line wrasse warning. The critical first 30 days and the six mistakes that end most mandarin stories before the fish reaches its second month. Setting up a copepod supply before the fish arrives.
Guide 2: Feeding Mandarins That Refuse to Die (£9.99 individually). The complete live food system: refugium design and management, home copepod culture from setup to harvest, phytoplankton and rotifers, frozen food training using the pipette method, and a five-point body condition scoring framework that tells you whether the system is working. The most complete practical guide to mandarin feeding available. For quick reference on dosing volumes, see our guide on how many copepods to add to your tank.
Guide 3: Long-Term Care and Troubleshooting (£7.99 individually). Health assessment in depth, disease recognition and safe treatment protocols, the copper problem and its safe alternatives, long-term tank management, breeding, and what separates the keepers whose mandarins reach year seven from those who lose theirs in year two. Includes a disease quick-reference table and medication safety guide.
Why Buy the Bundle
At £19.99 the Complete Mandarin Keeper's Library saves you £6 on the individual prices and gives you the complete picture from day one. Each guide is strongest as part of the full series. The feeding system in Guide 2 assumes the setup covered in Guide 1, and the long-term management in Guide 3 assumes the feeding infrastructure covered in Guide 2. The three guides are designed to work together as a complete system.
About the Author
Darren has been working with marine organisms since 2008. As Director of Reefphyto Ltd, based in Wales, he has spent 18+ years producing and supplying the live copepods, phytoplankton, and rotifers that mandarin gobies depend on. The Keeping Mandarins Alive series is the direct product of that professional experience. If you have questions about a specific tank situation after reading the guides, Darren answers personally, by phone, email, or online chat.
