Banggai cardinalfish

Clownfishfan

Clownfishfan

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Well I have what I think is a m/f pair of banggai cardinals in my biocube 14 and my intentions are breeding them. The supposed male is almost 3 inches and the supposed female is 2 1/2 inches . They both eat frozen mysis but that's it.... . They share the tank with a peppermint shrimp only . I only acquired the pair on Saturday so they are still a little jumpy and the male is kinda spotty with his eating but getting better . I plan on having the tank packed with various macros but only have a little atm and I built a algae
scrubber that is slowly maturing in the second chamber. How many times a day should I feed them , it is a semi-reef. How should I try getting them to eat some other foods like cyclops? How long will it be before I expect breeding ? How should I try to get the fry in the rearing tank? Should I put the male in the 10g when he starts carrying or what? How long should I feed enriched bbs before trying to wean them and what should I initially start weaning with? How many times a day should I try to feed the fry? I would like to have a dsb in the rearing tank along with a lot of macros, what is your opinion on this? All help is wanted !
 
Read it all there too. @fla I read it all and even posted in that already. I started a thread for the answers I did not already get.....
 
Clownfishfan said:
Well I have what I think is a m/f pair of banggai cardinals in my biocube 14 and my intentions are breeding them. The supposed male is almost 3 inches and the supposed female is 2 1/2 inches . They both eat frozen mysis but that's it.... . They share the tank with a peppermint shrimp only . I only acquired the pair on Saturday so they are still a little jumpy and the male is kinda spotty with his eating but getting better . I plan on having the tank packed with various macros but only have a little atm and I built a algae
scrubber that is slowly maturing in the second chamber. How many times a day should I feed them , it is a semi-reef. How should I try getting them to eat some other foods like cyclops? How long will it be before I expect breeding ? How should I try to get the fry in the rearing tank? Should I put the male in the 10g when he starts carrying or what? How long should I feed enriched bbs before trying to wean them and what should I initially start weaning with? How many times a day should I try to feed the fry? I would like to have a dsb in the rearing tank along with a lot of macros, what is your opinion on this? All help is wanted !
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I feed mine once a day, the majority of their diet is thawed mysis but they have also eaten thawed brine, krill & plankton, raw shrimp, and just recently cleaner shrimp eggs & BBS. The last two they went nuts over.
Mine started breeding while still in QT.
If you looked at the above thread you've seen that I corralled mine into a pitcher to move them.
From everything I've read it is best to let the male hold them as long as possible. I stripped mine 7 days after the eggs hatched and he stayed in the DT the whole time.
I am at week 6 today and the only thing they will eat is BBS. I am trying everything and the aggravating little cusses just watch it float by.
I've been feeding the fry three times a day. I cut back to twice a day this weekend and right before the evening feeding there was not a single BBS floating in that tank so I went back to three. I do a partial W/C every three days to try and stay ahead of the waste.
 
Thanks I finally got some answers ! What size are your parent cardinals?Also what supplies will I need for the fry tank? I wad gonna use a 10g with macros and sponge filter. I have bs cysts and zoecon and phyto plankton lying around already. What else? What is better zoecon or phyto?
 
I bought the parents in June as a juvenile m/f pair from Inland Aquatics. When I first purchased them they were the size of a half dollar, now they have grown quite a bit and their bodies are about the size of a silver dollar, female a little smaller. They are currently in a 28 gallon Nano Cube.

For the fry I used breeder boxes in an established 37 gallon tank for the first 4 weeks (should have moved them at 2 1/2 weeks) and now they are in a 20 gallon long by themselves. I had everything needed to set it up already.
A little piece of advice on the BS cysts, don't go cheap, buy quality from the start. I just about worked myself to death using what I could find local.

I'm still real new at this so someone with more experience need to help with the rest. I'm barely getting by myself.
 
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john miller said:
The ADULTS:
I feed mine once a day, the majority of their diet is thawed mysis but they have also eaten thawed brine, krill & plankton, raw shrimp, and just recently cleaner shrimp eggs & BBS. The last two they went nuts over.

The FRY:
I am at week 6 today and the only thing they will eat is BBS. I am trying everything and the aggravating little cusses just watch it float by.
I've been feeding the fry three times a day. I cut back to twice a day this weekend and right before the evening feeding there was not a single BBS floating in that tank so I went back to three. I do a partial W/C every three days to try and stay ahead of the waste.
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Breeding bangai

Breeding bangai

I have had little luck just keeping my bangais alive, they like to kill one another and have a way of finding themselves in trouble.
 
lazidog said:
I have had little luck just keeping my bangais alive, they like to kill one another and have a way of finding themselves in trouble.
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If your's are killing one another, then you have two males....
I know this is very difficult but the way to tell if male or female is, the female has two vents and the male has one vent or you can tell if you can see the male has a bull dog looking jaw so it can expand when he is holding eggs.
Hope that helps....
 
Clownfishfan said:
I bought two that were swimming together at the store. So that problem was eliminated....
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Not necessarily. :)

Two bangaiis will often get along fine until they reach mating age. Then again, they may not. I've only found one way to accurately pair them, wait until they mature and if one lays eggs and the other holds them, you have a pair. :)

Jeff
 
But there was three in the tank! My two swimming together in the middle around a plastic plant and the other cowering in a corner!
 
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