I have 3 new baby Bangiias and they are hosting in my 20" heteractus anemone
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IIRC, bangai young gather in longspine urchins in the wild, using the urchins as protection until they are bigger, and of an age to pair off and start defending territory...
Perhaps yours are practicing the same sort of psuedo-hosting?
With three of them, if you are lucky, you will have a pair in the making. Be on the alert as they grow though; usually, once two of them pair off, the third will need to be removed quite promptly, as the social stress can kill it within a day or two.
Edit: If your tank is large enough to give the pair a 3-4 cubic ft range to defend, and leave room for the loner to swim outside that, s/he may be just fine. I just wanted you to be aware
Edit again, lol: I just read your sig, and see that you are breeding the bangai's yourself? You should try making fake urchins for them out of pvc end caps and some stiff plastic threads. Maybe even krylon paint the whole thing black, if you make one. I read about them being used in rearing tanks to provide a sense of shelter, and that the survival rates of the young might even be higher.
Perhaps yours are practicing the same sort of psuedo-hosting?
With three of them, if you are lucky, you will have a pair in the making. Be on the alert as they grow though; usually, once two of them pair off, the third will need to be removed quite promptly, as the social stress can kill it within a day or two.
Edit: If your tank is large enough to give the pair a 3-4 cubic ft range to defend, and leave room for the loner to swim outside that, s/he may be just fine. I just wanted you to be aware
Edit again, lol: I just read your sig, and see that you are breeding the bangai's yourself? You should try making fake urchins for them out of pvc end caps and some stiff plastic threads. Maybe even krylon paint the whole thing black, if you make one. I read about them being used in rearing tanks to provide a sense of shelter, and that the survival rates of the young might even be higher.
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Jim-
What your observing is a very common occurance in the wild. Banggais primarily host in urchins or anemones, both provide protection, and in the Lembeh straits the banggai act like clownfish.
Right---guess you need photographic proof
http://eriksworld.altervista.org/pa...on_kauderni.htm
my concern for you is that your banggers (my word for banggi fry) will not get sufficent foods being in your display tank, so unless you dose w/ large amounts of enriched brine, you best have an active DSB.
What your observing is a very common occurance in the wild. Banggais primarily host in urchins or anemones, both provide protection, and in the Lembeh straits the banggai act like clownfish.
Right---guess you need photographic proof
http://eriksworld.altervista.org/pa...on_kauderni.htm
my concern for you is that your banggers (my word for banggi fry) will not get sufficent foods being in your display tank, so unless you dose w/ large amounts of enriched brine, you best have an active DSB.
its a very active sandbed. they are in a 300 reef that 5 years old with a very active 150 gal refuge also. i have been feeding frozen cyclops and fresh hatch baby artemia. At dusk the lower part of my tank is cloudy with spawn.
i tore down the bangaii breeder since they werent doing anything and put the pair in the main tank. THEN they bred...
i tore down the bangaii breeder since they werent doing anything and put the pair in the main tank. THEN they bred...
