full term bangaii's

thanks guys. Hey I'm going to register myself as a business so i can sell these things legally. Anyway I'm having trouble comming up with a name for my company. The best I've come up with (that isnt taken in Ontario) is Fish Factory. I wanted Northern Aquaculture or Canaqua but they're taken... so ...Anyone got some ideas? Right now im just doing bangaii's but i want to expand to rare clownfishes soon.
 
DUDE this is an incredible thread! you rock, weve had our bangaii for about 2 months now. got them from a buddy he sells coral, fish as a whole seller, he also has stated he will buy as many as we can produce, I'm in AWE! this has given me such a boost to do this right, ya'll are such a wealth of info and insight, thank you thank you..

much luck with the name, and more with your babies
 
Wow! Thats amazing. Do you still feed them live brine shrimp or do they eat other things at this age?

I'm thinking of getting Bangaii Cardinals and was wondering if theres any way to tell if they are male or female or if there is a pair. If I got three, would two (given that they are opposite genders) mate and have babies? How long do they hold the eggs for in their mouths? And how many gallons is the baby Bangaii tank? It looks like an awesome thing to do, sorry if I'm asking so many questions, I would like to raise them myself.

Anyway, good luck with everything.
 
thanks man, to answer the q's

ok...

telling apart the sexes is really hard. best to buy a bunch and pic out the pairs as they form, IMO.

eggs/babies are held approx 25 days

fry tanks are 10 gallons w/a sponge filter, heater, and a fake urchin in each

unfortunately they are all still on live bbs but they are starting to try the frozen.
 
boo...i just had my first casualties

i was trying to finish setting up my breeding system in the basement and i had to dismantle 3 tanks that were on the racks in order to move the racks that the tanks sit on...anyway i left it too long, the temperature went down 7 degrees and i lost 5 of my 10 day olders....frack...well, it had to happen sometime.
 
not to sound cynical, but the two mishaps you've mentioned thus far (the temp drop, and failure to match temps during a water addition/change), could have been much worse. I know if it were me, the temp drop and the water temp incidents would have wiped out 100% of my stock. . LOL

The good part here is that you're learning from mistakes, and the mistakes didn't cost you everything.

So will you ever let the temp drop 7 degrees again? Will you ever put water in a tank that doesn't match the temp of the tank?

I didn't think so. . .
 
acropora1981,
Have any of the offsprings paired up yet?? Are you still feeding them on LBS or are the fully eating frozens now??

I'm in Ontario too and would love to get my hands on a paired up couple. Let me know how much your asking for them.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11303014#post11303014 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by billsreef
Might want the temperarily break the happy couple up so that the male can get a few good meals and regain some reserves after not eating for so long.
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Sperating the male for a month between spawnings helps keep him healthy and helps prevent him eating the eggs or aborting the carry before the babies are ready...
 
Just got home from 3 days in Minnesota to find a pregnant male (hehehe that so fun to say) and have a bunch of questions...

I have a 55 gallon tank cutting board bottom, occupants include the two bengais and one super super shy fire fish (ie never comes out, ever since his buddy jumped it hasn't been the same :( ) a cleaner shrimp, an albino rock boring short spined urchin that never leaves a cave and a giant black serpent star (that I could banish to the sump)

If I don't seperate the male and female from the fry what are the chances that any of the babies live?

Will the male bengai sacrifice himself to carry eggs? He will eat the eggs if he is starving right? Cause I don't really feed the tank that frequently, its already been probably almost a week since I fed last, and if hes not gonna eat until the fry leave his mouth, he wouldn't have eaten for about a month...This is his first litter of pups so Im guessing he'll be okay this is what he's been living his whole life for so he should have some energy reserves.

I found this awesome site
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/Algae-Pastes-c6.html
any recommendations on what type of phyto i should enrich the brine shrimp with?

We have this floating breeder plastic cube
http://www.fish.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=710224
the holes in the breeder aren't even a millimeter wide so im assuming fry couldn't escape it(??). Should I seperate the male and put him in here before he releases? This would leave him in super close quarters when they do escape his mouth. Or leave the father in the main tank and make a skewer urchin and somehow get the fry into the box later after he releases? Is the box big enough to rear the fry in, in the tank (its 2.5in x 5in x 3in)
It also has a divider could I keep the male in one side and the babies in the other?

Okay thats all I got for now,
I think the male is on day three right now...
so how many days do I have to figure this out before the fry are released??? about 15 days or so?

You guys should try breeding firefish, its possible if you can keep them from jumping, they are the sweetist fish, visually and tempermentally :)
 
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You've probably been asked this many times before, but is there any way to tell the difference between the male and female, do any stores sell pairs together? What are some differences between genders if any, how did you get the pair?
 
Hey nice job on the banggais
I'm going banggais too, but the better i found here was someone selling 4 month old banggais.
If I buy 5 of them, how long until i got one pair?
I saw your post up there saying something like 5-7 months, but its how long yours would couple?
Thanks, Augusto
 
I am raising two batches of fry from August, I can not see any pairing yet. I have 12 left from each batch, one batch started at 18 and the other was a whopping 45 or so it's hard to count.

Acropora1981 - one piece of advice that cost me an entire batch of 35. if you decide to get one of those cheap perforated plastic dividers for your 10g make sure you have water flow on each side. my 10g had a h.o.b.filter so on one side of the divider and the heater on the other side, but there wasn't enough water flow through those tiny perforations, once they started dropping there was nothing I could do, they all went. for the next batch I put a sponge filter on the side with the heater and ran a piece of tubing from the filter area of the HOB to the sponge filter side which ran like a siphon bringing fresh water over there. that worked well
 
Just wanted to update this old thread here...

So, I raised the first two batches to saleable size, sold them, and gave the third batch to a friend.

I moved out to Halifax with my gf at the time soon after this thread, and sold everything I had, all my tanks and systems etc. Then she dumped me a week after we got there. It was a very difficult time, and made me bitter, angry, and depressed.

Its been a long journey in life since then, and I've lived as far off as Prince Rupert BC.

Now I'm back in Toronto, with a new girlfriend, and a different life. All this seems so far away, yet it was only 3 or 4 years ago, and I'm nearly 30 ha! Crazy...

I have a pair of Banggai's as well now, but they don't breed.
 
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