baby bangai

[Diana]

Originally Posted by Doo

Not to hijack the post, but why would you not strip the male - I did it a million times with africans - are SW fish any different?

Yeah I used to do this with africans a lot too.... but you would have to tumble the eggs if you stripped too early. Bangaii cardinals are so little and delicate I would not be inclined try it....

My bangaii's have been having babies for almost 2 years now, and they all get eaten up fast in my reef. The other day I was sitting on the couch and out of the corner of my eye I saw a little white dot scoot across the tank and yellow tang ate it up in no time. Poor lill babies! And I do have a longspine in there for them. I guess he wasnt around!

-Diana

[Myka]

I stripped my Bangaii. I never hurt him.

[spoot]

I wonder if a DIY long spine would work to save some babies for people that don't have one in their tanks.

[reef bound]

No worries about a hi-jack, Doo. This isn't something we were even expecting. Our reef tank has a wide variety of creatures in it including a niger trigger, purple tang, yellow-tail damsels,....the list goes on. Quite aggressive little guys, so I wasn't thinking of breeding anything. I was surprised to even know I had a male and female cardinal as when I got them a few months ago they were so small. We're pretty new to this hobby and I wouldn't even begin to know how or when to strip anything. Now that I know I have a male and female breeding pair, I think possibly a new tank is in order.