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I would like to share with you guys, my first experience in breeding cardinal Banggais in my home tank.
I have had a cardinal banggai (female) for over 4 years and I had never managed to get him a pair. Because it is difficult to identify the sex of those who are younger and here in my city it is not so common to find a cardinal banggai with adult size so that it is possible to identify the sex. I was only able to identify sex clearly after his second year of life. Well, I saw a friend selling a cardinal banggai with about 3 years of life and decided to go to his house to see to try to identify the sex, because he was not able to make good pictures. It really wasn't as visible as I could see it on my fish, but I decided to take a chance.
The female accepted the new colleague very well, but I saw some fighting at night in the aquarium. However, after 1 month together ... I could see the long-awaited, mating dance that the female does.
I was sure it was a couple of banggais.
After 3 months together, eating together and sleeping on top of a Long Tentacles anemone that I had, I realized that the mouth of one of them was much bigger than the other banggai. I decided to take my camera and try to take some photos with higher resolution.
I was very happy with what I saw:
extra pic
Then I notice the male eat some food that I offered to the other fishes in the tank after 15 days from these pics that I took.
Sad history, the eggs was eaten by male.
I bought a book just to make sure I have all basic information that I saw on the internet from expert breeders.
Yes, I had it.
So, I just wait for another lucky night to see male carrying more eggs.
BINGO!
After 2 weeks (I guess) I could see the same movie again: The eggs on male's mouth!
I started to feed the other fish with less quantity to avoid that the male could feel like eating and ended up eating the roe again.
After 20 days I noticed that the male's colouring was more opaque (lighter) and I was sitting there in front of the aquarium looking at the animals when I noticed that there were 3 baby banggais swimming close to my carpet anemone, (see the video):
I ran to be able to capture them and take them to a safer area, a box of nets to protect them.
So,
I started looking for more survivors ... hahaha
I found another single banggai swimming in the middle of the euphyllias.
And that was it ...
Only 4 babies Banggais were found.
I noticed that there were more chicks in the male's mouth and they were very agitated inside his mouth ... I ran to the fridge to get mullet roe to try to feed them (thanks Michel Deniz for the roe) ... And I already got my kit hatching brine shrimp and put it to work in order to obtain nauplii of brine shrimp as soon as possible.
Brine Shrimp Hatching kit (from AliExpress lol)
I researched some techniques to make the puppies less stressed, after all, they would be in the box without any shelter / hiding place.
I found a really cool post here by colleague @35ppt (thanks pal) he shows his fake sea urchins made of epoxy and zip tie clippings.
Than I tried to build my own fake sea urchin:
This is the last update from Banggais babies (today - few minutes ago).
I will get it another alternative of food to them this evening from 3D fish (Brazil) - Phytoplankton to feed the brine shrimps and Rotifers for the babies banggais.
Thanks @MarceloVaz for all support and products you provided.
For now: That's it
So far so good.
Hope get back to this topic with more good news.
I'm really excited to see these little banggais growing.
.
I have had a cardinal banggai (female) for over 4 years and I had never managed to get him a pair. Because it is difficult to identify the sex of those who are younger and here in my city it is not so common to find a cardinal banggai with adult size so that it is possible to identify the sex. I was only able to identify sex clearly after his second year of life. Well, I saw a friend selling a cardinal banggai with about 3 years of life and decided to go to his house to see to try to identify the sex, because he was not able to make good pictures. It really wasn't as visible as I could see it on my fish, but I decided to take a chance.
The female accepted the new colleague very well, but I saw some fighting at night in the aquarium. However, after 1 month together ... I could see the long-awaited, mating dance that the female does.
I was sure it was a couple of banggais.
After 3 months together, eating together and sleeping on top of a Long Tentacles anemone that I had, I realized that the mouth of one of them was much bigger than the other banggai. I decided to take my camera and try to take some photos with higher resolution.
I was very happy with what I saw:
extra pic
Then I notice the male eat some food that I offered to the other fishes in the tank after 15 days from these pics that I took.
Sad history, the eggs was eaten by male.
I bought a book just to make sure I have all basic information that I saw on the internet from expert breeders.
Yes, I had it.
So, I just wait for another lucky night to see male carrying more eggs.
BINGO!
After 2 weeks (I guess) I could see the same movie again: The eggs on male's mouth!
I started to feed the other fish with less quantity to avoid that the male could feel like eating and ended up eating the roe again.
After 20 days I noticed that the male's colouring was more opaque (lighter) and I was sitting there in front of the aquarium looking at the animals when I noticed that there were 3 baby banggais swimming close to my carpet anemone, (see the video):
I ran to be able to capture them and take them to a safer area, a box of nets to protect them.
So,
I started looking for more survivors ... hahaha
I found another single banggai swimming in the middle of the euphyllias.
And that was it ...
Only 4 babies Banggais were found.
I noticed that there were more chicks in the male's mouth and they were very agitated inside his mouth ... I ran to the fridge to get mullet roe to try to feed them (thanks Michel Deniz for the roe) ... And I already got my kit hatching brine shrimp and put it to work in order to obtain nauplii of brine shrimp as soon as possible.
Brine Shrimp Hatching kit (from AliExpress lol)
I researched some techniques to make the puppies less stressed, after all, they would be in the box without any shelter / hiding place.
I found a really cool post here by colleague @35ppt (thanks pal) he shows his fake sea urchins made of epoxy and zip tie clippings.
Than I tried to build my own fake sea urchin:
This is the last update from Banggais babies (today - few minutes ago).
I will get it another alternative of food to them this evening from 3D fish (Brazil) - Phytoplankton to feed the brine shrimps and Rotifers for the babies banggais.
Thanks @MarceloVaz for all support and products you provided.
For now: That's it
So far so good.
Hope get back to this topic with more good news.
I'm really excited to see these little banggais growing.
.