Any experiences with Blue-Streak Cardinals (A. leptacanthus)?

[LockeOak]

Has anyone ever kept blue-streak cardinals? They're now available from ORA but I've never heard much about them. Do they have a peaceful temperament? Can they tolerate high flow? Are they mouth brooders?

[TacoKing]

Peaceful.. Great fish. Perfect schooling fish. Mouth breeders, they love flow. Stay close together. Ideal reef fish.

[miwoodar]

Leonardo's Reef has some in his tank. I looked them up last night after reviewing his build thread...he talks about them at some point.

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...33&perpage=189

[King-Kong]

I have been trying to get a large stable school in my system for about 6 months now;



The only issue (and its been a huge one) is that they ship very very poorly, so some come in not eating, and never start eating, and die.

I have 7 healthy eating threadfins, but have lost aprox. 20 to get here. (First batch of 10 from LiveAquaria all died in 2 weeks). Next, got a batch of 5 from LiveAquaria Diver's Den; all survived. Then, got a batch of 13 from LFS -- 11 died. Will hopefully be adding ~3-5 more in the next week or so.

So far they seem to deal with my flow (which is tons)... but I would not recommend strong flow for them until they start eating. Otherwise keep them in a calm setting.

How much is ORA charging for them? I'd love to see how theyre breeding them, cause the only other person I saw come close lost all of the babies after 45 days.

[LockeOak]

I have no idea how much ORA has them for, they only sell to wholesalers. Hmm... they're pretty, but I don't think I'm willing to put up with that level of losses. Thanks for the heads up.

[miwoodar]

I didn't realize they were so hard. The site I was looking at last night said they were super easy. Marinecenter maybe?

[King-Kong]

They are easy.. after they get over being shipped

They are very binary... theyre either a 1 or a 0.. 1's eat, and eat ANYTHING, and tons.. 0's dont eat.. no matter what you feed them; live or frozen or processed.

My dispar anthias were easier to get to eat!

[Bret61081]

I have 5...I started with 3...all eating spectrum within a few weeks...then I added 3 more. One didnt make it but the rest are doing great. They are all little pigs too! Always near the feeder waiting for food! I love the fact that they are always sticking together. Very cool fish and color up nicely once they settle in.

[zemuron114]

the waikiki aquarium has about 25 in one of their displays. Its a beautiful tank with that many (could be more) and i believe they breed regularly between 5-10 females (it looks like 2 or 3 are always pregnant.

I didn't know they shipped so poorly either. ORA may not be breeding them, but importing them (they import as well)

[King-Kong]

Originally posted by zemuron114
I didn't know they shipped so poorly either. ORA may not be breeding them, but importing them (they import as well)

They claim to be breeding;

http://www.orafarm.com/cardinalfish.html

[zemuron114]

ok then... lol i didn't visit the website before hand. Im sure it is possible. the ones at the WA breed constantly but no they dont attempt to raise the fry.