Redspot Cardinalfish - Apogon parvulus

That is great. I would imagine the fry will be really tiny. Do you have any plans to try and raise them?

Here are my 5, just got them from DD today. They are active and eating.
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thanks basser1. There would be twice or 3x as many if I didn't already have a full fish load in that tank.
 
If we have the opportunity and they continue to spawn we will surely make attempts at rearing them.
 
Here's mine...there are 16 in the tank and I got all but one in the shot. The Prognathodes aya is from the DD too. We received these ~5.5 months ago.

They get New Life Spectrum pellets 4 times per day and 2 add'l feedings of fish eggs or other small meaty food.

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Beautiful fish! They remind me of the delicate freshwater tetras. Is the consensus that these would not fare well in a reef with more active fish?
 
I second, any updates? I just missed getting 5 of these from DD liveaquaria yesterday.:( I would also like to know how they are doing in a normal reef tank setting with other fish.
 
I am happy to report that all 10 of these fishes are still thriving in our 30-Gallon breeder set-up housed with a pair of captive bred Amphiprion latezonatus.

The cardinalfishes have spawned several times now, but unfortunately all of our attempts to gently capture the carrying male have failed with the fish spitting out the egg mass.

It's incredible to see how many eggs are present in clutch (I would estimate over 50), as the eggs themselves are tiny and appear to be less than 1mm each.

Regards,
 
Kevin if you can get them to spit the eggs I would think that would be great. You can then tumble them on your own and transfer them to the rearing vessel easier. The eggs are much much stronger than the larvae, so your only hurdle is to get good hatch rates by artificially incubating them.
 
Tim,
We have been very successful in utilizing an egg tumbler for hatching our own captive bred Pterapogon kauderni. This is needed if and when the male Cardinalfish releases the clutch of eggs from it's mouth during the transfer to a separate holding tank.

Unfortunately both times we have tried moving the carrying male Apogon parvulus, the egg mass has inadvertently slipped through one of the small openings in our plastic breeder container, only to get lost in the aquarium rock work.

Next time a different technique is in order when capturing the carrying male so we will have to wait and see.

Cheers,
 
karsco said:
I second, any updates? I just missed getting 5 of these from DD liveaquaria yesterday.:( I would also like to know how they are doing in a normal reef tank setting with other fish.
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I added a group of 5 from DD on the 28th of Jan. My tank is a 58 gallon mixed reef and is nearly 11 yrs old. There is a breeding pair of ocellaris clowns in a sebae anemone, an old threadfin cardinal, a starry blenny, a McCosker's wrasse, and a whipfin wrasse, along with a heavy coral load.

The redspots seem to be ignored by all the other fish, and the redspots ignore them as well. They stay grouped nearly all the time and swim (hover and dart) in the open, and eat well. Unfortunately, I have lost 2 in the last 10 days. The 2 fish who died both refused food that day, and became visibly "duller" - less reflective. The first one had a cloudy eye, I don't know if it was diseased or injured, or if that had anything to do with its death. On a more positive note I am pretty sure I witnessed breeding or pre-breeding behavior last night, which brings me to my next point.

I'd like to try and add to the group for the sake of the "odd wheel" (and because I like them), but I am hesitant in case they are harboring some disease or parasite.
 
I love the Apogonidae family, but I had near given up on this species... In the past I had tried them two times and the fish arrived either dead or on their way out... well... I am very happy I gave them another shot.

I recently received a large group from the Diver's Den (multiple groups of five) and holy cow! Kevin and the DD again get props for their conditioning of fish. These fish were shipped in individual bags they could have lived for a week in, and came fat and happy and were like little tunas right after being introduced... I did not lose ONE, which for anyone who's received any Apogon species through the mail is an amazing feat! Props to Kevin and the DD for being an absolute model for the industry... :):celeb1:

Copps
 
We received a batch of 25 A. parvulus from direct import. After 2.5 hours acclimating, all still lived.
We heavily fed them with frozen red plankton, mysis, artemia, cyclops, lobster eggs and spirulina flakes. They happily accept all served foods and today, 3 weeks after we bought them they all still live and are realy fattened up.

I'll keep you posted on behalf the condition and survival rate of these pretty little fishes.
 
Mine are going on 6 months and very fat. I hope to see spawning soon. The race is on to see who can breed these first and provide CB individuals to the trade... ;)
 
copps said:
Matt how many do you have and what fishes are on display with them?
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Hi John!

I took a pretty shoddy camera phone photo of them earlier in this thread--there are 16 of them in a 2' cube with a 2" Prognathodes aya and a 3" male Paracheilinus rubricaudalis. The system gets fed 4 times a day automatically with NLS pellets, and I manually feed twice a day with various small meaty food like Hikari mysis, Cyclopeeze, fish eggs, etc.
 
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