What fish is that?

[friendlyAlien]

Hi,


So I have been searching for a good schooling fish for my new reef. While looking I stumbled upon this video on this store website in Germany:

http://www.faunamarin.de/index.php?...20101009&ResetOrderBy=1&PContent=234&Lang=en&

If you watch the first vid you will see a school of small striped fish (about 30 sec in). Anyone ever seen this fish or know what it is?

Cheers
Carsten

 

[cjrudy]

Just watched the first video, there are no fish 30 seconds in only coral?

 

[friendlyAlien]

The still photo of the video also shows the school on the left.

 

[aquadonkey]

Are you talking about the small schooling fish? At about 1.11?
I swear I've come across that fish before, but can't remember the name - pretty sure it's a cardinal....

 

[zooman72]

Yep, looks like a slender Apogon sp. of cardinalfish, but not sure of the exact species...

 

[FOSELONE]

red spot cardinalfish...hard to keep...good luck

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...oeCbDA&usg=AFQjCNEgIMEh2f6_u-U7hNK_nsHipppqWQ

 

[friendlyAlien]

Thanks, after all your hints to look for cardinals google also found this one: http://www.saltwaterfish.com/Candy-Stripe-Cardinal_p_502.html

Too bad the mortality rates are so high. It really looks like a perfect schooling fish that i could add 10-20 to the tank - always wanted a school.

 

[FOSELONE]

why not do some blue eye cardinal fish ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPf4tJlqm4

 

[ming81]

I bought 10 of the red spot cardinals from diversden on LiveAquaria. They're pretty cool that they school so tightly constantly. There are some fish which school from fear and won't school without something threatening them, but the red spot cardinals are always schooling. The ones shipped from DiversDen are acclimating to eating frozen mysis right away (had them eating the same night they arrived). You'll receive a large styro box which contains only 1 cardinal per large bag in the box. The shipping is well overdone, and they've been QT'ed and eating frozen food vigorously, I'm not sure what more can be asked!
Another cool thing about them is, they prefer swimming out in the open, instead of within the rock work so you'll almost always see them.

 

[GMaquarium]

I really like the red spot cardinals, its the schooling tetra of the reef. However have never been able to keep them long term. Tried a few different batches a year about all I can get out of them. So I stopped gettingg those fish. They seem to be to weak for the strong pumps, overflows and lps mouths.