msmith619
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Hello all, I asked this on the'Reef Fish' Forum but have received no responses so, posting here for input.
I have been successful on many occasions with breeding and raising fry of Bangaii Cardinalfish, usually in a 55 galllon tank with Long spined sea urchins.
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I have a 56 gallon column tank now that is a "species tank" with a carpet anemone and Ocelleris clownfish. I wanted to add some Bangaii and was worried about the anemone so.....I did some reading and found some surprising information:
"Pterapogon kauderni is regularly found living among the spines of the long-spine sea urchins (Diadema). The Banggai cardinalfish also lives within the tentacles of large sea anemones, such as leathery sea anemones (Heteractis crispa), long-tentacled sea anemone (Macrodactyla doorensis) and even large carpet anemones (Stichodactyla spp.). With some anemones, the Banggai cardinalfish can even contact the stinging tentacles with no apparent ill-effects."
My question is, does anyone have any experiences keeping Bangaii with carpet anemones? I have a Stochactyla gigantea. I don't want to put a Long-spine sea urchin in as they tend to 'bulldoze' the frags off their placement. I had planned to add a Haddoni anemone but, I could easily add a Sebae anemone or Long-tentacle anemone, there is a deep sand bed with plenty of space in this tank. I want to re-create a natural environment without putting them at harm of being eaten. It appears they like to be in the tentacles of longer tentacled anemones.
Here are some archive photos from the reefs where they live. As you can see, they are in the tentacles of these anemones.
I have been successful on many occasions with breeding and raising fry of Bangaii Cardinalfish, usually in a 55 galllon tank with Long spined sea urchins.
<a href="http://s773.photobucket.com/user/msmith619/media/Bangaii2.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/yy12/msmith619/Bangaii2.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Bangaii2.jpg"/></a>
I have a 56 gallon column tank now that is a "species tank" with a carpet anemone and Ocelleris clownfish. I wanted to add some Bangaii and was worried about the anemone so.....I did some reading and found some surprising information:
"Pterapogon kauderni is regularly found living among the spines of the long-spine sea urchins (Diadema). The Banggai cardinalfish also lives within the tentacles of large sea anemones, such as leathery sea anemones (Heteractis crispa), long-tentacled sea anemone (Macrodactyla doorensis) and even large carpet anemones (Stichodactyla spp.). With some anemones, the Banggai cardinalfish can even contact the stinging tentacles with no apparent ill-effects."
My question is, does anyone have any experiences keeping Bangaii with carpet anemones? I have a Stochactyla gigantea. I don't want to put a Long-spine sea urchin in as they tend to 'bulldoze' the frags off their placement. I had planned to add a Haddoni anemone but, I could easily add a Sebae anemone or Long-tentacle anemone, there is a deep sand bed with plenty of space in this tank. I want to re-create a natural environment without putting them at harm of being eaten. It appears they like to be in the tentacles of longer tentacled anemones.
Here are some archive photos from the reefs where they live. As you can see, they are in the tentacles of these anemones.
Great pictures.
