Banggai Moving Day
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steven the fish
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SWEET!!
Is it anything like breeding clowns?
Is it anything like breeding clowns?
steven the fish
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Right now my FW kribensis is beating the crap out of my archers because they get too close to her babies.
flamingkingofhe
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is there any way to distinguish the males frome the females ? what do the babies eat ? also what do you do with all these babies once the are grown
bang guy
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Originally posted by Kipass4130
I never see mine eat... but it keeps living... what do these Gaiis like?
also... do they ever get by the shy stage
In the wild they eat large zooplankton as it swims by. In captivity I suggest meaty frozen food like Mysis Shrimp or minced Scallops, etc. Flake foods are not normally accepted.
If they have adequate hiding spots they will become bolder.
bang guy
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Originally posted by flamingkingofhe
is there any way to distinguish the males frome the females ? what do the babies eat ? also what do you do with all these babies once the are grown
After the males breed they have a mouthful of eggs.... that's the best identification. After, it seems the mouth is permanently extended so it's usually easy to tell on a large mature adult. My test is to place a mature banggai with a known male. If the male attacks then the new one is also male.
i feed my baby Banggai frozen Prawn Eggs. The fry rearing tank is downstream from my copepod propogation tank as well. Most people report success with freshly hatched Artemia nauplii. Exclusive feeding of Artemia has proven to cause a condition nicknamed "Sudden Death Syndrome" where the baby Banggai appear to experience a heart attack during a stressful event.
I grow the Banggai to a saleable size and sell them to local fish stores. My goal is to reduce the number of Banggai removed from the wild. The latest numbers I saw from the wild population was frightening.
krishj39
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Thanks for the offer to help, Bang Guy. Well, I don't know what tank conditions to list. Everything else in the tank is doing well: corals, inverts and fish, one and all. I had ordered 2 bangaiis from this site. The first time, one arrived dead and the other died within the day. The second time I had them send them, one was already DOA, and the other died about 4 days later. I gave up after that, and SWF was good enough to let me substitute a maroon clown for the same price under the guarantee (while I paid for 2 bangaiis, I was unable to remove the one that died after 4 days until all but a small part of its skull remained so I was unable to return it for a credit for another one). Anyway, that's where we are now. I have plenty of areas for the bangaii to hide, under rock caves and such where there isn't strong current. The tank is very peaceful. What other special conditions should I know about, that don't apply to all fish? I'd still love to keep them, dunno when that would happen now though since my tank is maxed out on fish.