bangaii cardinal fry

[THEDLO]

Congrats! They are ADORABLE. If you decide to sell some, I'd love one or two. And I'm hopeful for the little one in the sump--keep us posted

me too!

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

lol I think they are all spoken for now

 

[Domboski]

I didn't enrich the BBS, but I tried to feed the BBS to the fry as soon or within a few hours after they hatch

I did enrich the BBS I used when I took the few from you and it seemed to be fine for a couple of weeks and then poof! They died

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I did enrich the BBS I used when I took the few from you and it seemed to be fine for a couple of weeks and then poof! They died

Hmm, there's a couple of things going on here, either nutrition deficiency or intraspecific competition/dominance.
Would you say they were eating right until they died? or did they stop eatting, become very shy and reclusive, and then die a few days later?

Plus, did the fry you have survive longer then Ming's lot? How much longer did they live eatting the enriched BBS? or did yours and Mings die around the same time, showing BBS enrichment didn't affect them.

Lastly, what size were they?

 

[Domboski]

I took the fry from Ming after he got them to a certain point. They all ate right up until they died. Behavior was absolutely normal.

I spoke to some of the "experts" at MACNA in Atlanta a year or so ago and they said that the fry are prone to some kind of bacteria and usually do better with some low amount of meds to protect them. I'm not sure if that is what happened. I do think I had the fry eating pieces of mysis too but I can't remember anymore.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Hope you can master the trick soon and change your sn to homegrowncardinal

 

[Drinkmorewater]

You might consider talking to the Baltimore Aquarium as I know they breed/raise them. Maybe they will have some helpful hints.

Good Luck!

 

[homegrowncichlid]

Ultimately, for the fry to do well, i need to put them back into the sump/refugium and let them forage for themselves. That is the most natural setting that I have, with constant water flow and food particles a drift. I'm sure if one had a giant refugium with a constant supply of live shrimps and copepods, raising them wouldn't be a problem.

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I plan on selling the fry in the next couple of months once the females catch up in size to the males, at about one inch. As far as I can see, if you have a large refugium, you can easily keep 1 or 2 in there, and let them forage off the critters that drift by.

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Congrats on the fry!! I was waiting for following up on it to see if they did well. Cool beans maybe when you sell them Id like to possibly get one or two from you. I have 1 left now I lost 2 but Id like to have them hopefully all school together

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Glad to hear they are doing well I am definitely still interested in a few.

 

[THEDLO]

Me too!!!!!

 

[nyc reefer]

B. Cardinals

Awesome job with the fry, if you are eventually going to sell pairs, I'm interested in a pair, just lmk.

 

[bigdog1428]

I'll take a pair also , keep me posted


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[Jzhou]

That is so cool, I've only bred cichlids and clowns before. How do you sex them?

 

[tonyyammine]

wow that is really cool

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I guess its about time to sell these fish out, got 12 left, too hard to tell whos a female, but I can definately tell whos a male, since the males are displaying to each other. Females and non-aggressive males sort of hang out together. They are eating freezed dried cyclopeeze. They were fertilized August 7, and released at the beginning of September, so that makes them 6 + months old now.
$15 each.

 

[45acp]

WOW, your progress with these cardinals is just awsome! Do you have any updated pics?

 

[Bryceandmandy]

Soooo cool

 

[Royalty0086]

Is there away to figure out which Bangaii is the male? I have just 1 Bangaii Cardinal and I want to add another so I can pair then up but I have no idea how to figure out which one is the male?