Kaudern's Cardinal Babies. Advice!!!!

[Bender19]

I "have" a pair of Kaudern's Cardinals from Live Aquaria Divers Den. One of them disappeared a week or two ago, so i figured it died somehow, never seen a rise in water levels so i ignored. About an hour ago i was looking at my corals to see how they were doing and noticed some Kaudern's Cardinal babies living in one of them. Theres at least 4 that i have seen at the same time. Kind of exciting.

I was wondering what i should do for them? Just leave them alone and hope they make it? OR are they defiantly future fish food? Tank is only about 10months old.

Also, i still don't see the other adult Kaudern's Cardinal. And theres noway it can hide in that starburst like the babies can.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

feed 'em Cyclopeeze.

Net 'em out if you want to guarantee survival. Why aren't you on the Upstate Reef Society Forum on RC? :crazy1:

 

[Bender19]

Make that 5 babies

 

[Bender19]

Why aren't you on the Upstate Reef Society Forum on RC? :crazy1:

Never heard of that

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Upstate Reef Society Forum

Randy @ ARC and I were among the founding members years ago

 

[JPMagyar]

Congratulations Dad! Where are the cigars?!?

Seriously though I have found netting them out when the lights turn off to be easy with no damage and they live in virtually any predator free tank and eat frozen food readily just make sure it's plankton size. I actually used my sump as the nursery since it was 300 gallons of low flow and I initially did not directly feed the little guys so they seem to eat something in my system or perhaps leftover coral food that makes it down to the sump.

There is a very active market for them so I definitely encourage you to try and keep them alive. I would be even more interested in acquiring some offspring for breeding myself. I have enlisted my daughter and we have 3 breeding pairs at home and given that these guys are on the Endangered Species List I think that it would be great if we could come up with someplace for all us hobbyists with breeding pairs to get together.




Your Reefin' Buddy,


Joe


P.S. Gary, I owe you a dinner or a beer at least so I hope if you're ever in Westchester County you'll be sure to look me up!

 

[Bender19]

I actually used my sump as the nursery since it was 300 gallons of low flow and I initially did not directly feed the little guys so they seem to eat something in my system or perhaps leftover coral food that makes it down to the sump.

So when night comes i can net them out and put em in the fuge section of my tank? Will the find cover in my cheato down there, eat coral food and baby pods?

 

[Bender19]

 

[accordsirh22]

that is too cool! hopefully when i make the move to a bigger tank i can get some of these guys in there and they will breed like yours

 

[Bender19]

I netted them, which was actually quite easy, and put them by the cheato in my fuge. They aren't really moving all that much yet but thats probably because of stress.

 

[MisterX]

Very cool! Good luck with the little ones.

I have/had a pair of Banggai's up until about 12/01/2012... then one of them went missing. The woman I got them from (she raised them until about 3-4 months old for me) mentioned the missing one might be hiding with fry. Been almost a month now with no sign of it...

You said yours was only hiding for about 2 weeks? Have you seen it since?

Still hoping mine is in there somewhere, but it seems unlikely at this point.

 

[Bender19]

Very cool! Good luck with the little ones.

I have/had a pair of Banggai's up until about 12/01/2012... then one of them went missing. The woman I got them from (she raised them until about 3-4 months old for me) mentioned the missing one might be hiding with fry. Been almost a month now with no sign of it...

You said yours was only hiding for about 2 weeks? Have you seen it since?

Still hoping mine is in there somewhere, but it seems unlikely at this point.

Thanks, yea its exciting. And i just moved the fry to the fuge to try to avoid other fish eating them, but yea one has been missing for 2 weeks, although the fry were up front by themselves with no protection other than the starburst. The one cardinal is still nowhere to be found.

 

[JPMagyar]

Depending on the flow in your fuge (lower is better) they should live there fine. Sadly if your adults were wild caught then you may lose them. There is a disease that afflicts the vast majority of wild caught Banggai's but if you can successfully raise the fry they should have a much longer life.

Good-luck and keep us posted!

Joe

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

P.S. Gary, I owe you a dinner or a beer at least so I hope if you're ever in Westchester County you'll be sure to look me up!

you're on.

PS: I have family in Sullivan County