Banggai cardinal carrying! !

Valgae · Feb 25, 2016

They're a week old today! Yay!

Bunnee911 · Feb 25, 2016

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Valgae · Mar 3, 2016

Update: Day 15 still have all 12 babies. Moving them to a 20L tank this weekend. Ordered some spiraluna powder to grow out my brine shrimp. So far so good...

Valgae · Mar 7, 2016

Still getting ammonia readings in their grow out tank. Going to have to wait a few more days before I move them.

Valgae · Mar 8, 2016

Annnnd he's holding again! Saw her doing the shake last night. This batch is way bigger than the last, i can already tell.

Valgae · Mar 8, 2016

Quick video of them.

bairdimusprime · Mar 15, 2016

congrats on the fry, my male banggai killed all of the other cardinals in the tank... so he will be lonely for a lifetime

Valgae · Mar 28, 2016

Day 41 update: moved all 13 juveniles to their big boy tank. I wanted to move them a while ago but had a constant ammonia reading in the tank. Finally just took some LR from my sump and put it in there. 2 days later it was good to go. Used a 29L, sponge filter, and a whisper filter (rated for a 10g-mostly for some light flow.) My sponge filter shares airlines with my hatching setup.
My next batch is coming any day now. Going to try to get my male in a breeding net tonight.
A few pics of my setup and the cardinals. Putting a 40g breeder on the bottom shelf for my QT.

Valgae · Mar 31, 2016

Got my male in a breeders net night before last. Woke up this morning and overnight he spit out 4 babies. 1 was developed but very small, 1 hadn't hatched yet, 2 had just recently hatched.

hopefully he hangs on to the rest.

Live Water · Mar 31, 2016

Following

Valgae · Mar 31, 2016

Have another 4 out. These seem a lot smaller than the previous batch. The 4 from last night are still kicking! Yay. The rate at which they absorb their yolk sac is crazy. There were 3 who had visible hanging sacs, now they are in the stomach. Just look really fat. The second pic is the one with yolk sac.

Valgae · Apr 2, 2016

So there's 11 total new fry. Still waiting for him to finish spitting the rest out. In other news...the first batch have started eating frozen brine!

Lrood · Apr 3, 2016

Well done!

A+Aquatics · Apr 6, 2016

this is so cool! ^_^

Valgae · Apr 6, 2016

At 17 new fry right now. I think its been a week since he spit a few out early, he's still holding on to a couple. Hopefully he'll get those out tonight, if not....well....he's breaking out of baby jail. I feel bad for having him in the breeder net. Actually really surprised that none died after being "born" so early. 1st baby pics of batch #2.

Valgae · Apr 6, 2016

I'm glad my threats were taken seriously. The last 8 fry were spit out last night. Grand total 25!! Put him back into the main display this morning.

mrsaltwaterguy · Apr 6, 2016

So cool! This thread convinced me to go out and get a pair. Hoping they start breeding at some point.

kyle1284 · Apr 6, 2016

ha this is to cool. I honestly have never thought of keeping Bangaii Cardinal fish but the thought of raising some intrigues me! I noticed you live in Victoria, ever travel up to Houston?

aaron23 · Apr 6, 2016

Wow seriously awesome thanks for the updates and photos

Valgae · Apr 7, 2016

kyle1284 said:
ha this is to cool. I honestly have never thought of keeping Bangaii Cardinal fish but the thought of raising some intrigues me! I noticed you live in Victoria, ever travel up to Houston?

Yeah, i have family up there. Not many good lfs down here. I like fishland and TNT off hwy6. Are there any other good stores that you know of?