Red Spot Cardinalfish

[LisaP]

I think the lfs employee is mistaken about the flow

Yeah, it did seem a bit odd but when a LFS employee is not trying to sell me something I tend to sit up and take notice. :lmao: I am still tempted I must admit, some seem to have succeeded with this species (and even had them breed) and some just haven't. I need to work out if I have a good chance at the former and not the latter. :strange:

Regards

Lisa

 

[LisaP]

So after much debate I decided to give the Red Spot Cardinals a go after all. At the LFS I asked for five but ended up with six (the 6th was a freebie, thank you very much!). I introduced them last Saturday and for six days they were doing great, eating well and swimming out in the open which is exactly what I wanted. Even the Possum and Pink Streaked wrasse have gained in confidence, showing themselves much more often than before. Oh and my nano gobies are absolutely fine with them, the new fish have totally ignored them (so far).

Then yesterday to my complete amazement two of the fish spawned right before my eyes!! The female released the most enormous ball of eggs for such a small fish and the male immediately took them up into his mouth. It did take a few minutes of juggling to fit them all in but he did it in the end. It was totally amazing!!

Here is a quick photo from this morning. What a proud Father he is!

It's going to be interesting to see if he can last the full seven days it takes for the eggs to develop. I hope he has enough energy reserves to cope with seven days not eating. :uhoh3:

Regards

Lisa

 

[rhdoug]

Wow great shot and very cool that they spawned! Good luck with those guys, let us know how they do.

 

[Javeo]

Brilliant to see you having good luck with these. LFS around here will only get them to order as they tend to die en masse. Remember also they have a very short lifespan, a couple of years at most as they are so tiny. There's a marine goby that lives only 3 months, that's something we can't do anything about b

 

[smatter]

How are the red spots doing?

 

[LisaP]

I'm afraid my experience turned out to be the same as the majority of other reef keepers. They seemed to be doing great, feeding well and looking fat. Then after two months one of them vanished, it seemed totally fine the previous day and then just gone the next. It was a complete mystery as to what happened to it. A second vanished in the same manner two weeks later. The third jumped out of the tank whilst I was doing some maintenance on the tank and the remaining three disappeared one by one over a period of 4 months till they were all gone. I fed them 4 times per day and they ate well but something must have been missing from their diet or something else in the tank was off. Needless to say I won't be trying any more, it's a shame because they were really lovely fish.

Regards

Lisa

 

[ZOAREEFTANK]

I've currently got a group of 3 from divers den in qt with a Randall's goby may not be your definition of a nano goby but they could care less that there in there together


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[smatter]

I'm afraid my experience turned out to be the same as the majority of other reef keepers. They seemed to be doing great, feeding well and looking fat. Then after two months one of them vanished, it seemed totally fine the previous day and then just gone the next. It was a complete mystery as to what happened to it. A second vanished in the same manner two weeks later. The third jumped out of the tank whilst I was doing some maintenance on the tank and the remaining three disappeared one by one over a period of 4 months till they were all gone. I fed them 4 times per day and they ate well but something must have been missing from their diet or something else in the tank was off. Needless to say I won't be trying any more, it's a shame because they were really lovely fish.

Regards

Lisa

Sorry to hear that. I will definitely avoid this fish :sad2: