Bangaii Cardinal Egg Poll

[Zaita]

Ok.

If you have a Bangaii Cardinal who holds eggs and released them, or lets them drop I'd like you to make a post.

Please include:
- Whether or not the Bangaii Holds Full Term or Drops
- SG (Specific Gravity, Salinity)
- Ammonia
- Nitrates
- Nitrites
- Daytime PH
- Temperature
- Reef or FOWLR

Please, re-test the Nitrates, Ammonia and Nitrates before posting. Don't just assume they are 0

I am doing this because I was able to strip my Bangaii of the eggs at Day 5 post-spawn and successfully have 24 hatch after artificial incubation. 1 has died, and the other 23 "bounce" slightly in the water. I am asking people to post to try and identify a correlation between the bouncing, and males dropping eggs (e.g specific temp ranges, SGs etc).

Z.

 

[Zaita]

I'll start

- Bangaii Drops/Eats the Eggs
- SG: 1.027
- Ammonia: 0 PPM
- Nitrates: 20 PPM
- Nitrites: 0 PPM
- Daytime PH: 8.2
- Temp: 27.0'C
- Reef

 

[Fragman2]

Bengai drops /eats eggs
SG= 1.025
ammonia =0
Nitrates = 0
Nitrates = 0
Daytime PH 8.2
Temp = 79 to 80 F
125gal Reef

 

[Fragman2]

I had my Bengais carry eggs to full term back in December 7 months ago. However they only had 7 babies. Sort of a small batch. Since then he has carried eggs probably three times and dropped them. I have compartment tanks and they were living in a 12 inch by 12 inch by 10 inch deep "cell". I considered the reason to be more related to the stress of confinement to be more of a factor. A few weeks ago I plumbed a 20 gallon breeder into my other 220 gallon system and gave them a new "private home". I am hopping to see them produce more babies in this new environment.