A few pics of my Centropyge argi pairs.

Man those are pretty argis and there isn't an ugly one. They're my favorite fish but every single one I've had thought my acans were tasty. I may just have to deal with it and give it another try and feed more which is easier to do now that I have a larger tank so i don't have to worry so much about over feeding.
 
I have heard they are bad with nipping never tried it though, haven't kept corals since I came to school. To much of a hassle with moving all the time.

Also everyone is always wondering if there fish is male female.... well I noticed today that the pair I have here at home shows the pointed fin in the male and rounded fin in the female just like it is thought in flame angels. I found that interesting. The males fins are pointed so they keep the round shape with tail, so he looks like a big oval and the female's are obvious shorter and are rounded off before the caudal fin.

He also has more yellow on his face and I think I noted that earlier that all three males had more yellow on their head than all three females.
 
good luck with spawning the agris, i just paired my female target mandarin a couple days ago and have them both feeding on mysis. every night they make false spawning rises, hopefully soon i'll have eggs. with school i don't have time to try to raise them but if I get fertile eggs over x-mas break or summer break i might give it a shot.
 
Get them FAT and they will spawn. The female will look like she swallowed a marble, feed her until she looks like she will explode. Make sure you have a twilight period (it doesn't have to be actinic, like most poeple think) just bright light, dimmer light, no light and you should get spawning.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15620704#post15620704 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tcmfish
Get them FAT and they will spawn. The female will look like she swallowed a marble, feed her until she looks like she will explode. Make sure you have a twilight period (it doesn't have to be actinic, like most poeple think) just bright light, dimmer light, no light and you should get spawning.
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my female is already to that point and the male has a slightly sunken stomach but he's eating the mysis and already looks better. I run 6 39w t5's over my 40brd and 2 go out at around 8pm leaving just my 4 ati blue+ on then it's lights out at 9pm. I shut the pumps off when they go out, and the come out into the open then start making rises. probably in about a month they both should be nice and plump.
 
Tim, You've got my name down yet for the first pair of argi's you successfully raise? :D


Seriously though, best of luck! I'll be watching this thread closely. My breeding adventures are sidelined indefinitely for now, though.
 
So the males have much more color on the top of his head? Is it possible to add a male after a female is established. Or should it be done at the same time?
 
I think you could do it either way. All my pairs have been established by buying two fish and putting them together at a young age. In one of my pairs one of the fish didn't make it and was replaced quickly with another fish.

When you say established does that mean you have had your fish for a while? Because not all argi have as much yellow on their head as mine do. I have seen pictures of fish that are almost blue, so you could just have a variation.

The best way would be to add a smaller one than you already have.

One another thing that I think I have mentioned before is: you know the blue and black marking flame angels get on the back of their dorsal and anal fins, well the male C. argi has these markings on the end of his tail where the female doesn't. Also like I mentioned earlier he has pointed dorsal and anal fins. I haven't had time to observe all of my pairs so closely yet because they have been in the lab still and I don't recall from last year.
 
Interesting, thanks for the info.

I have had one for a few weeks and was interested in a pair. I may wait a while and then get a very small one.
 
Yeah no prob and these fish don't get real big so even if it is just a smidge smaller than your fish you should be fine.
 
Two days with light timers and there is already much more action with the actinic only. Its only been about ten minutes with the actinics on and he was already chasing and displaying to her. Pretty cool!!
 
I kept the one pair at my apartment for the school year, before selling them to someone local. I don't know what they did with them, but I think they were to go into a big reef tank. The other two pairs I lost due to using the wrong silicone, lesson learned there. I have since graduated college and now have a different collection of fish.

The spawning and egg collecting was cool, but we were in the process of moving the lab at the time, hence why I brought them home, and trying to collect NSW for water changes and collect wild plankton etc. while living in an apartment and going to school full-time just proved too time consuming. It is still a goal of mine, to raise a pygmy angelfish, so we will see, but I no longer care for the fish in this thread.
 
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