Hey Guy (Bang guy)--
Nice to hear from you again, 22, 000 post later i may add.
It also great to see you still helping out.
I still try my best to help out as well, but my time is being spent at a higher level. As you know we had an unsuccessful try at CITES protection this year, we submittted at CITES II recommendation which was overturned. After this the IUCN used the same data to determine the banggais are an "Endangered species",, but this has no impact on collection/protection and the biggest losers are the fish.
The banggais are still unprotected and very much overcollected. This yrs estimate is around 900,000K collected, w/ a total remaining population of 2million, with approx~32 out of 68 island sites still having banggais. This fish is in trouble.
Anyway the more hobbyists that can be successful and bred these fish, the less pressure on the captive populations.
Happy Turkeyday
frank
of coming out of the egg. The male dropped the egg and I guess it didn't hatch. But other than that, I haven't lost any more. I just counted today and I have exactly 46 babies!!!! I'm buying a comercial holding unit to hold them in the grow out period. It should be interesting. I'm conditioning the male and females (in separate tanks) to breed them again in a couple of months. I also have four more individuals in my main tank wich I know that they are fighting because parts of their tails are beat up. I'm pretty sure that I have another pair in there I'm just figuring out how I'm going to remove the pair out of the tank and make sure that I don't confuse it with another bangaii and end up removing eathier two of the same --- or the wrong mate of the pair.
