Bangaii sexing help..with pictures

[john miller]

Start reading:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1879622
Everything you'll need to know.

My saga started around page 12(?).

 

[Thumbster]

Just finished reading it....for the 2nd time. I didn't have anything else to do this winter anyway.

 

[lgray13]

Glad to have found this thread. I have 4 of them and two have paired off and what I now know is the male has a mouth full of eggs. Thanks for the great links!

 

[Thumbster]

Well crap! He must have ate the eggs. Oh well, that gives me more time to get my stuff together.

 

[burnah]

my idea would be to feed them as much as possible - from what ive read, eating the eggs means hungry fish. they cant eat while mouthbreeding, so you have to fill them up before...

 

[Thumbster]

Thats what my plan is. I only had them 9 days and he started holding eggs, don't know if this is his first time or not but that might figure into it also.

I started out the first week with frozen brine and mysis then switched to Spectrum Pellets hoping to get the Clowns and the female Bangaii to eat them. The Clowns seem to love them now but the female Bangaii not so much. I'd like to get them on dry food.

Anyone have luck with the pellets?

In the meantime I've got a 20g long grow out tank up and running. I'm still trying to find a hang on breeder tank that I think I would like.

 

[john miller]

My cardinals won't even look at pellets. They only eat meaty foods. If you really want to see them go nuts put in a little freshly hatched BBS.

 

[Thumbster]

Brine shrimp eggs are my next purchase probably. For some reason I can't get my head wrapped around how to hatch and when to feed them or what to feed them. Where did you get your eggs from and what kind?

I went down to the basement yesterday and dug out an old air pump to make sure it still worked.

@John...Is your male still holding eggs?

 

[ecupcar]

Yup, they like meaty foods. He probably swallowed his first clutch because he didn't know what to do. They do figure it out, if you are going to try and raise the fry, you will have to get your timing right and separate him from other predators and flow. I came down one morning to find a bunch of babies tumbling in the flow and my Kole Tang picking them off one at a time!

 

[Thumbster]

Well my plan is to catch him around the time that he's supposed to release the eggs and then put him into the hang-on plastic breeder net/tank that I will have on the side of my 20g long grow out tank.

When he releases the eggs I will take him out and keep the fry in the breeder net/tank until they get big enough to let out into 20g long. I might keep him in the 20g long for a few days to fatten him up before taking him back to the 75.

We'll see how it works. I'm hoping to not use any nets and to keep the fry in the same tank that they're born in until at least a few months. That is subject to change if I start seeing aggression but I am hoping the 20g long is big enough to keep them in for a while.