advise needid : breeding banggai cardinals

[new_world_disor]

well my pair of banggai cardinals have decided to start a family. i have noticed lack of feeding and the female being aggressive for around 1-2 days. ive set up a pair of breeding nets to go in the main tank.... as im not sure ill get my 10g up and running in time.

it would be great if anyone could offer help and advise on what i need to do. what to feed. when to remove the male to the 10g. etc etc.

thanks :

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[kar93]

If you nip to Pets at home or your local fish place they should have some sponge filters, air pumps and some little heaters. Thats all you need to put in the 10g with some of your main tank water. Do you have live brine or rotifers?

 

[new_world_disor]

no rotifers. i cn get my old hobby** breeder kit out for the brine. i litrually have no money for the sponge filter etc etc. is using the canister ok >? ive set up a big sponge over the intake so nothing can get sucked up. and set the flow to low. i have a small fluval heater in there

what temp should i run things at ?? and a small arcardia pod-light

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[FMarini]

Might want to start reading here
Notes and observations on Raising and Breeding the Banggai Cardinalfish (1996)
http://www.breedersregistry.org/Articles/v4_i4_marini/marini.htm


Frank Marini, "Captive care and Breeding of the Banggai cardinal (1997)
http://www.reefs.org/library/talklog/f_marini_020799.html

FAQ on Banggai Cardinals (1996)
http://www.reefs.org/library/article/f_marini.html

Keith Clarke, "The Joys of Tank Raised Banggai Cardinalfish (1997)
http://www.reefs.org/library/talklog/k_clarke_102499.html


Start counting from the first day your male stopped eating. Thats day1, you have approx20-23 days before you need baby brine ready to roll

 

[new_world_disor]

thanks for the links there a great help. . . .on question though. what exactly is selacon ?? i havent seen it about in shops round here.

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[Lotus99]

Selcon is a food supplement that has amino acids and vitamins. You soak food in it, or use it to enrich the baby brine shrimp.

 

[da1jewfish]

don't you think that info from '97 & '98 (10+ years old) would be outdated? especially in this hobby, when 10 years ago it was much harder to keep a reef tank w/o the technology we have today.
I would bet most of the info would be pertainant today, but some vital differences in technology wouldn't be in those articles. Also, breeding banggai's is much more popular now than then.... the more experiences with breeding the better.

 

[billsreef]

Since the biology of the animal hasn't changed in the last decade, those links are still accurate

 

[FMarini]

actually we know a ton more about the fish, a more indepth understanding of the fish's ecology, spawning cycles, food preferences, site preferences etc, however the basic understanding and how -to of breeding this fish and raising its fry haven't advanced much.

If you want to read an up-to-date article on these fish, Jan issue of Calfo's "C-the journal" is outstanding. Its a very indepth article and covers everything we know about the fish
I appreciate the concern you expressed about potentially outdated info, and really he only things that are truely disproven are any of the ideas I conceptualized on how to ID a male vs female. none of that has held true 10yrs later.
WE know are to the point we're we can strip the eggs from a male and raise them ex vivo, but these ideas where posed back 10 yrs ago and it wasn't reproducibly successful, now it is.