Cardinal Fish, and other fish opinions!!

sly65sally200

sly65sally200

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I am asking everyone to tell me their experience with cardinal fish. Are they easy to keep with angels and tangs? Are they a calm fish? Are they annoying like damsels? Anything you would like to share? Thank you for your opinions. I would like to purchase more fish in about six weeks, and I am doing as much research as possible. Any other fish that you would recommend with coral beauty angel, flame angel, and blue hippo tang? I am getting rid of the damsels. Thanks again. I have a 125 gallon. I would like to also add a mandarin dragonet, too. I like lionfish, but know they don't go well in coral tanks, and will eat my other fish. Oh, and my husband want a mated pair of clownfish...I'm not so sure on that.
 
monkdaily

monkdaily

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wow there are alot of ?'s here and not easily answered but i will do the best i can i dont know about how the angels and tangs will act toward the cardinals but the cardinals wont pick on either. very calm pretty much the exact oppisite of damsels. i prefer the Bangaii Cardinal w/the transparent fins looks like they are floating all around the tank. i wouldnt add the mandarin dragonet unless you have a mature tank and trillions of copepods seeing as how they dont eat frozen and will starve theirself out. as far as the lions ian not a specialist but the reason they arent reef safe is not because they eat coral but because they eat inverts and small fish. and finaly i like the mated clownfish idea with a anem for them to host. just my 2 cents i will differ to the tru professionas.
 
rara12

rara12

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I might be the only one on the boards who thinks this but i wouldnt put them with any fish its own size or smaller. They WILL eat small fish. Peaceful, i think not.

This was my experience, but im sure most people have had great experiences with them.
 
sly65sally200

sly65sally200

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Originally Posted by rara12
I might be the only one on the boards who thinks this but i wouldnt put them with any fish its own size or smaller. They WILL eat small fish. Peaceful, i think not.

This was my experience, but im sure most people have had great experiences with them.
My goodness, who knew? How did it get that in it's mouth?
 
granny

granny

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I have had the pajama cardinals in my tank for 2 years now and they are the most peaceful fish imaginable. That looked like a soldier cardinal in your picture which is more aggressive and obviously has a much larger mouth than mine who prefer marine pellets to anything else!
 
arod268

arod268

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Originally Posted by rara12
I might be the only one on the boards who thinks this but i wouldnt put them with any fish its own size or smaller. They WILL eat small fish. Peaceful, i think not.

This was my experience, but im sure most people have had great experiences with them.
What fish did it eat?
 
rara12

rara12

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Its a flame cardinal and in the pic he is eating a killie fish. It was a narrow fish but that was just the start. Once he got a taste for flesh there was no stopping him and he went on to eat two damsels and my pearly jawfish. After all my fish were gone he just died...
 
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