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Banggai cardinalfish
The Banggai cardinalfish is a small tropical cardinalfish in the family Apogonidae. It is the only member of its genus. This attractive fish is popular in the aquarium trade. It is among the relatively few marine fish to have been bred regularly in captivity, but significant numbers are still capture…
What do Banggai cardinal fish eat?
Feeding Banggai Cardinal Fish can be challenging when first introduced to your tank. They can be quite finicky and will probably not go after flakes or pellet foods. You may need to start with frozen or live fish food and then try to get them onto vitamin enriched flake foods.
What do you feed your cardinal fish?
I feed mine the same the rest of the tank gets: I alternate between 3 frozen foods (mysis, a seafood mix w/ brine shrimp, and a mix with bloodworms), and occasionally supplement with some flake, and TDO pellets. For a while the Cardinal kinda behaved as you describe.
What do you feed a kauderni fish?
Relatively hardy, P. kauderni can learn to accept most prepared aquarium foods. If you have a particularly shy-feeding individual, start with live foods, like brine shrimp or black worms. Then ween them over to frozen foods (like Mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, bloodworms), and eventually flakes or pellets.
How big of a tank does a Banggai Cardinal need?
Aquarium Size : 30 gallon (114 liters) minimum. Banggai Cardinal Fish Tank Mates : May be able to keep a small school of these in larger aquarium setups with peaceful tank mates. Could be considered a reef safe fish.
What do you feed Banggai Cardinals?
The Banggai cardinalfish feeds primarily on copepods, but it also eats planktonic organisms when they are abundant in the area.
What can I feed my cardinal fish?
In aquariums, it should be fed a well balanced diet of meaty foods, such as feeder shrimps, marine flesh, bloodworms, and depending on its size, liver feeder fish ("Kaudern's Cardinal - Tank-Bred"). It cannot eat dry prepared foods, such as pellets and flakes.
What do baby Banggai cardinals eat?
First they must grow on their diet of mysid shrimp and other miniature delicacies. But be sure to look for their parents in the Living Coral exhibit.
How many Banggai cardinalfish are in a tank?
How many fish can be in a cardinal tank? It's generally advisable that you set up a tank of around 30 gallons for these fish. However, to start with, a 20 gallon tank may be enough. The general rule of thumb for keeping any fish in a home saltwater tank is that there should be around two gallons per one inch of fish.
How do you take care of Banggai Cardinals?
Although tank bred specimens are considered relatively hardy, water quality should not be neglected; good filtration is a must and brisk water movement will be much appreciated. Tankmates can include other small, peaceful fish, even other cardinalfish species.
Are cardinal fish easy to keep?
They generally do so well in captivity that they are one of the easiest species to breed in the home aquarium.
How big do Banggai cardinal fish get?
about 3 inchesThe Banggai, along with most others in the cardinalfish family, feeds on plankton and small, bottom-dwelling crustaceans. This species reaches about 3 inches in total length. Banggai cardinalfish were introduced into the pet trade in the 1990s and are popular in home aquariums.
Can you keep a single Banggai Cardinalfish?
It'll do fine just as one, as if they'd be the same sex they could start fighting anyhow. I've had a single Bangaii for ~18 months and hes doing fine. Than can be bullied easily so need to be kept with calm tankmates. I have had a single Bangaii Cardinal for approx 3 years now and he has done fine.
What size tank do cardinal fish need?
What tank size should I get for cardinalfish? The aquarium size will depend on the species selected, but the larger the aquarium the less chance of water parameter changes happening quickly. For a single small-sized cardinal, a properly set up 5-gallon marine aquarium is the absolute minimum.
Do Banggai cardinalfish like to hide?
Like all cardinals, Banggais are nocturnal, so you will want to provide lots of caves and ledges where they can hide. Eventually, your new fish will adapt to daytime feeding and come out more frequently during the day.
Are Banggai cardinalfish nocturnal?
Most all are nocturnal, with the exception of the Banggai Cardinal fish (Pterapogon kauderni), which is diurnal and one of the most popular cardinal fish in the trade.
Can you mix cardinal fish?
You can go with a pair, but Pajama Cardinals will be happier in a group of at least 6. These fish are ideal for both small and large aquarium communities and are peaceful creatures that will not bully others in the tank. However, you do need to be mindful of the other fish in the tank.
What is the best food for cardinal tetras?
Cardinal tetras are omnivores and feed on worms and small crustaceans in the wild. Feed cardinal tetras a varied and nutritious diet consisting of pellets, flakes, vegetables, and live or frozen food such as bloodworms, mosquito larvae, and daphnia. Live food improves the cardinal tetra's coloration.
Can cardinal tetras eat pellets?
Here we have some very high quality sinking pellets for your tetras. Don't worry, because they sink slowly and are definitely small enough for cardinal tetras to eat. We do like how these pellets are made in the USA and are made with high quality ingredients.
How long can cardinal tetras go without food?
How long then can your school of tetras survive without food? The real answer is probably around 7 to 8 days or roughly around 1 week. Once the fishes have used up their fat reserves, which tetras do not have a lot of because they are constantly moving, they will probably die.
Can cardinal tetras eat tropical flakes?
Cardinal tetras are primarily carnivorous in the wild, and they feed on tiny invertebrates, insect larvae and insect eggs. However, even wild-caught neon tetras will quickly take to a flake food, though they will still appreciate the addition of live or frozen foods to their diets.
What is a Banggai Cardinalfish?
The Banggai Cardinalfish, sometimes referred to as Kaudern's Cardinalfish is a remarkable looking specimen having a silver body with vertical black stripes. The body is covered in small white spots that are more easily seen on the dorsal, pelvic, anal and caudal fins.
How long does it take for a Banggai Cardinalfish to release?
They won't even go after their favorite fish foods! The male will mouth brood the fish and then release them after 20 days or slightly longer.
How long does it take for a cardinal fish to come out?
The male will mouth brood the fish and then release them after 20 days or slightly longer. Take your time when acclimating these cardinalfish to your tank water. Once introduced they may hide out for a day or two but should come out once food hits the water.
Where can I find Cardinalfish?
It is interesting to note that these Banggai Cardinalfish are only found in a rather small area around Banggai Island off Sulawesi.
Can you keep a banggai cardinalfish in the same tank?
Aqua cultured specimens should be a little easier to feed. You may be able to keep multiple Banggai Cardinalfish in the same tank if it is sufficiently large enough.
Uhuru
they can be picky... I generally wouldn't buy any that I didn't see eating frozen foods in the store. If they are small they should be willing to eat cyclopleeze. If they are only eating live brine shrimp then you might have to wean them onto frozen foods. It's rare to find any that will eat dry flake food.
Uhuru
thats great, if they are taking frozen brine they should be able to adapt to mysis soon enough. have you tried PE mysis? you can always chop it up if its too big.
Hooked on Tropical Fish
I still can recall my first sight of a tropical fish. The year was late 1946 or early 1947, I was 5 years old, and our kindergarten class was on a field trip to the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Reef Tank Setup
I began reading all of the latest information on setting up reef tanks: Michael Paletta’s The New Marine Aquarium (TFH/Microcosm Professional Series, 2001); Jeff Kurtz’s The Simple Guide to Marine Aquariums (T.F.H.
A Surprise Spawning
One afternoon in January 2004, while sitting in my fishroom chair reading the local newspaper, I glanced at the reef tank and saw the larger of the two Banggais doing a little shimmy dance next to the smaller one. The dance was much like the discus shimmy dance, but here the dancing partner was side by side with its mate.
Getting Ready for Fry
I decided that if I wanted to see any live fry I had to remove the male Banggai from the reef to a smaller nursery. Four days after the egg-laying I optimistically set up an 8-gallon aquarium with water from the reef tank and a small piece of live rock, and I added a small urchin to “seed” the aquarium and monitor water quality.
The Fry
On the day following the move of the male to the isolation tank I noticed a round little ball with a big eye staring at me from the tank floor. It was clearly an egg, and it was alive. Since I was going away for four days the next day, I picked up the egg/fry and placed it in a little fry nursery tank within the male’s tank.
Now What Do I Do?
Even though I removed the male to the reef tank, I decided to keep the 12 fry in the smaller nursery tank, floating in the male’s former home. From the few articles that I read, getting the proper quantity of food to the fry seemed like an issue. By keeping the fry in the smaller confined space of the nursery, I hoped to eliminate that problem.
Looking Ahead
Based on this one experience, as well as the things I have read, getting your Banggai pair to spawn and seeing the fry is the easy part. The difficulty apparently is in raising those fry to maturity, even though they are rather large at birth.
Appearance
Breeding
- The good news is that these little guys are one of the easier saltwater species to breed. The males are mouth brooders which should increase the chances of successfully raising the young. The difficult part is figuring out if you have a pair. You may only be able to accurately tell once they've paired off. If you're really interested in breeding this fish and you have the appropriate equipmen…
Symptoms
- If your Banggai Cardinalfish end up breeding you may notice that the mouth on the male will be bulging at the jawline and they aren't eating anything. They won't even go after their favorite foods! The male will mouth brood the fish and then release them after 20 days or slightly longer. You may be able to keep multiple Banggai Cardinalfish in the same tank if it is sufficiently large enou…
Diet
- Feeding them can be challenging when first introduced to your tank. They can be quite finicky and will probably not go after flakes or pellet foods. You may need to start with frozen or live fish food and then try to get them onto vitamin enriched flake foods. Aqua cultured specimens should be a little easier to feed.
Prevention
- They seem to be fairly disease resistant but you still need to take proper pre-cautions and use a quarantine tank before introducing them into your main tank. Keeping them in quarantine can also give you a chance to get them eating without any competition from others.
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