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By a lot, means minimum 3 feedings a dayNo they'll need freshly hatched baby brine shrimp soaked in selcon or some other enritchment and they're going to need a lot!! Once bigger u can can wean to frozen/ larger foods.
That's what I was saying in a round about way as well, the lfs babies that survived found their way to a long tentical plate and just survived by eating out of the water column, they didn't feed it or anything. With that being said the other 6 or so died. If you let them out in the DT if there is other fish with big enough mouths.... They may become dinner.What I really like about bangaii is that the babies are big! Comparatively that is. They are natural born hunters also. Which lets you go a different route than some other more complicated fish. Don't take this as disagreeing with the advice above. But I never had it in me to do that much work to raise proper food. And I couldn't hatch a brine shrimp to save my life. But I CAN design a good 'fuge and have it so full of bugs that you'd hesitate to put your hand in it. And that setup, assuming your babies can get to it without being filtered or chewed up by a pump, is every bit as good as targeted feeding.
That said, if I had any desire to actually consider myself a breeder or if I needed/wanted scale I'd be doing it the right way. Including separating the parents from the display, raising food, etc. Though tbh if you're going to put that effort in why not just design some breeding digs that are refugiums. Put the parent in there until he spits the babies and then he goes back to the display or his own setup. Then you'd have all the babies in a food rich environment with no danger. 20g or so with a sponge filter + airstone type deal, bit of bottom rubble and a bunch of macro. Feed it just enough to grow pods while maintaining water quality. That'd be ideal and very easy to maintain. Babies eating all the bugs? Harvest some of your main system macro and swap it into the breeder tank. New food!