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Posted: February 16 2014 at 9:46pm |
My banggai laid eggs tonight...too bad I only have one cardinal, at least I know its a female...eggs were quickly eaten by my wrasse and a bristle worm...sad but still cool. Egg cluster center of pic below.
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 5:11am |
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That's curious. I wonder how they ended up in a clump. Did your Bangaii collect and hold them herself before discarding?
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 9:39am |
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Not sure didn't see that but the cardinal was guarding them pretty aggressively, making those click sounds cardinals can make. Other fish I have are chromis, kole tang, hovens wrasse, fire fish, rose goby, mandarin, and some clowns but the clowns are not mated and from google images these were definitely cardinal eggs not clown eggs.
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 11:34am |
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Sounds like she needs a mate. How old is she?
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 11:44am |
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Yea not sure I want a tank full of cardinals, I have had this fish 15 months and got it when it was tiny.
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 12:15pm |
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Wow in all the time I was breading them
I've never seen a female have a cluster with out a male. Its sure death besides being unfertilized. Way weird.
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 12:20pm |
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Yea my wife's motherly instinct kicked in and wanted me to try to save them? but once my wrasse saw them I knew they were goners, they were visible to us for maybe 5 minutes. I have some better pics I will post tonight.
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 1:14pm |
Since you only have 1, the eggs would not hatch because they never were fertilized I have had lone females drop an occasional egg cluster; they are encased in a weak kind of 'sac' that usually dissolves in the males mouth (Banggais are mouthbreeders and the male does the holding). The male holds the eggs for about a month until they hatch and the fry become free - swimming If you were to pick up a male and they mated you usually end up with between 10 - 20 babies per brood Very easy to raise, as the babies are the size of freshwater livebearer fry (think guppies or mollies) when 'born' and will eat newly hatched live brine for the first 3 months of their lives
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 2:09pm |
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Oh man my plan to fertilize them myself would have never worked! Haha, j/k when I said my wife wanted to "save them" it was more save them from being eaten while the poor cardinal watched. I dont have any interest in breading them but still cool process.
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 2:52pm |
 Bryce wrote:
Oh man my plan to fertilize them myself would have never worked! Haha, j/k |
OOO how to use that statement..........
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 3:06pm |
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I would love to buy her from u. Or maybe replace her with two others or something let me know ;)
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Posted: June 11 2014 at 1:40pm |
Well she laid eggs again, this time my acans and a snail are eating them:
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