Baby Bangaii's - how successful have you been in raising them???

[Veng68]

Hey Chin,

Check this PDF manual about Bangaii Cardinal Breeding

http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/hawau/hawauh05003.pdf

Also this website is dedicated to breeding marine ornamental fish

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/i...8fc572c5a3d11c

Good luck.

Cheers,
Vic

[Myka]

Here a Bangaii Breeding Journal I made. http://216.187.96.54/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=38770 (if that works...the link looks funny)

It is incomplete though, as I did end up raising 2 or 3 batches to selling size. Those batches were 28-35 babies if I remember correctly, and none of them died from the batch. They are fairly easy to raise provided you know a thing or two. Like...get them onto frozen food within the first week. That's a biggie.

General
1) How many frys did you start out with?
28-35

2) How many survived to adults?
First few batches, none
Last few batches, all

3) If none, how long did the oldest one live for or how big did it grow?
I had issues getting them onto frozen food, and they died because I quit feeding them BBS. I think the last one kicked the bucket around 3 months old. Use the turkey baster to keep the frozen food suspended...they won't take it off the bottom when they are young.

4) Did you attempt to raise them?
Yeppers.

Foods
5) What did you feed the new born frys?
BBS

6) Did you do anything special to the foods? (ie Selcon)
I fed the BBS Selcon 1 hour before feeding the fry.

7) As they got older, what and when did you try frozen/pellet foods?
I blended up PE Mysis, and got them eating that within a week on the successful batches. They had Selcon and garlic mixed in, and I mixed it up with the BBS to get them change over.

8) If successful, how did you wean them off live foods?
See above.

9) How did you feed them? (manual turkey baster or automatic setup)
Turkey baster, although I had great plans of an auto system.

Habitat
10) Where did you raise your fry? (ie sump/separate container/main display)
Successful batches were in separate tanks.
Unsuccessful were in floating containers in the display.

11) What temp was the water?
Probably 78 like the rest of my tanks?? Not sure...

12) How much swimming space did they have? (LxWxH)
The teeny guys had about 2 gallons, then moved up to 5 gallons, 10, then 20 to selliing size.

13) How much flow in the swimming space? (none, low, moderate, high)
Very low with the teeny guys...just a sponge filter. As they got bigger they got more flow.

14) What was in the swimming space? (live rock, algae, fake plants)
Fake plants, nothing organic. Made for easy clean up. Gotta keep nutrients real low or they go gimpy.

15) What was your lighting schedule?
The little guys were dimly lit for 12 hours/day so I could feed them more. I found they did better in dim lighting. The bigger guys were 8 hours light, and it was brighter so I could prep them for peoples' display tanks.