Baby cardinals

fishnugget · #1 01/15/2005, 08:36 AM

Once my adults have offspring, what is the best environment to put them in?

Tank size, lighting , filtration, sand or not?

I would like to set tank up now. I will give birth shortly.

FMarini · #2 01/15/2005, 10:18 AM

http://www.breedersregistry.org/Art...rini/marini.htm
http://www.reefs.org/library/talklo...ini_020799.html

heres some starter reading. If you male is in your main tank and he releases the fry you'll have a whale of time catching them. If you can capture the fry and place them into a growout system then you can provide food in large amounts.. The growout system is your choice. You'll gt some hints readingabove

fishnugget · #3 01/15/2005, 10:24 AM

Both links are not working. Any other ideas?

Atticus · #4 01/15/2005, 12:14 PM

Do a search in this forum for bangaii and you will find more information than you will know what to do with. You can also google it and find tons of info. I personally use a ten gallon tank with no filtration for the first month then use a HOB filter with a foam sponge over the intake.

David M · #5 01/15/2005, 02:18 PM

Yes, catching baby bangers in a reef tank is nearly impossible, especially since chasing them around with a net or using a siphon will ofeten result in "sudden fright syndrome" and occasionally death. My breeder tanks were 40 gallons with live rock & macro, still hard to get the fry. What I did was take a clear, wide plastic jar (a one quart Kent Marine Reef Carbon jar actually) and drill several 1/4" holes in it, none lower that 1" from the bottom. Then I loosely packed the jar with macro and removed most of the rest of macroalgae from the tank. The babies would group inside the jar which was easily removable.

Atticus · #6 01/15/2005, 04:36 PM

That jar idea was a good one. I had noticed a straggler in my 90 that survived in the macro also. I tried the fake urchin, but no luck there. All of the ones I grow out are from capturing the male in the middle of the night and transporting him into a 10 gallon until he releases the fry. He usually releases when netted.

meganmcclain18 · #7 01/18/2005, 01:11 PM

siphon is sometimes to hard on the babies. Try shutting down your pumps and lights and shine a flash light at the top of the tank the babies should swim towards the light and you can scoop them out with a bowl. A lady friend of mine has had 3 batches of percula babies and this is the only way she has been successful at getting them out. Although i've never had eggs of breeding going on in my tank i just thought i might share this. She was able to get about 60 babies out as soon as they hatched

Atticus · #8 01/18/2005, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by meganmcclain18
siphon is sometimes to hard on the babies. Try shutting down your pumps and lights and shine a flash light at the top of the tank the babies should swim towards the light and you can scoop them out with a bowl. A lady friend of mine has had 3 batches of percula babies and this is the only way she has been successful at getting them out. Although i've never had eggs of breeding going on in my tank i just thought i might share this. She was able to get about 60 babies out as soon as they hatched

This will work well for clown fry, but it will not work for bangaii as they are too far developed to come tword the light. Clown fry do this as it simulated moonlight and they naturally need to rise into the planktonic layer where they would be surrounded by food and safer from predation in the ocean. Bangaii are released as whole fry and need to find shelter near the ground that is why the jar and fake urchin will work. The one light trick that never fails for bangaii it the pitch black tank then turn on the lights which stuns the male allowing you to net him.