banggai cardinal

I bought a pair of young banggai cardinals three days ago, but one of them died suddenly. It got sucked into a powerhead and beaten up (idk if it was postmortem or perimortem), so I can't tell if it was the male or the female of the pair. The store sexed them for me, so I'm not even sure if they...

Hello! So around two days ago, the fish in my 37gal tank started becoming lethargic one by one. There's 4 Banggai cardinals, 1 firefish. 1 decorator crab 6-7 small hermits 2 urchins On the first day, I noticed 2 of the cardinals have lost most of their fins, and were not accepting food. One...

Hey Everyone! I got these two Banggai’s about 4 days ago. I have them in a 15Gal quarantine tank. I’ve noticed nothing wrong with them other than the one smaller guy has no interest in any food. The bigger one goes at mysis like it’s his job but the small one always darts after it but never...

After countless fry showing up for only a day and my attempts at netting them were impossible….then disappearing …. a baby has seemed to survived beyond demise in my display. He has been around for about 6+ weeks now in the display with 17 other fish since spotting him: over last 6 weeks, I...

I got a banggai cardinal 5 days ago and I've been feeding him little by little to see if he would eat the frozen food, which he always did. Today, he refused to eat any of the food given. Some of the food dropped literally on his mouth and he just turned the other way. Any help on this? I am...

Hello everyone! I am wondering if you guys know a way to provide enrichment / exciting experiences for my fish. I have a 45G tank with 2 clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 gold midas blenny, 1 longnose hawkfish and 2 banggai cardinal. I would like to help them have some fun to make their lives happier...

Hey all! I recently acquired 2 banggai cardinalfish which I believe to be a male and female. I’ve only had them home for a few days, but I’ve noticed every once and a while they will do this behavior. One will pause, fold it’s fins over and turn slightly, and then yawn. Occasionally the other...

I am currently in the process of starting my first saltwater aquarium which is a 120 gallon FOWLR. Yesterday I got my first fish, a banggai cardinalfish. It is currently in my 10 gallon QT tank before it will go in the display. Since I got it yesterday, it has been hiding in the corner of the...

Hi everyone, I just got 3 (QT'd) Banggai Cardinalfish in yesterday and always saw that they spit out mysis and omega enriched brine shrimp (I assume it was too big for them). I did also add Hikari's coral gumbo in their last feeding and saw them picking at the water column so I assume they're...

so month ago i got this s bangai cardina for male who lost his girlfriend. baby bangai went through qt and now is in acclimation box that they will be inthere for few days. i saw that male is checking out baby one not sure if he is trying to bond or kill them what do you think.

I thought my tank was finally ready to add fish, but I woke up this morning to find 4 dead fish. I don't know what I did wrong. I added 2 saddleback clownfish, 2 damselfish, 2 banggai cardinalfish, 2 blue leg hermit crabs, and a turbo snail to my tank last night after double checking the water...

I had one juvenile banggai cardinal that was in my tank for about a month. Now I just got another one of the same size. The new one is getting bullied the first day. When I picked it up, its fin was nipped at the fish store (I didn’t notice until I got home). It got further damaged by the...

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What can i use for conditioning banggai cardinals? i know chopped squid, mysis and even baby guppies??? If I bought baby saltwater mollies from my LFS would that still be the same as the guppies? would it have the same effect? and "wild" cherry shrimp, there are people in my area selling...

Hey guys, new reefer here. SO last night one of our 2 Banggai Cardinals died. Here's the timeline, 4:30 - roommate arrives home and both cardinal fish are swimming normally 8:00 - I notice one cardinal is missing. Find it on bottom side of tank gasping rapidly 9:00 - fed tank and all fish...

Looking for some advice specific to this quarantine I have 6 tank-raised banggai cardinalfish in quarantine right now. After 5 days, they seem to look healthy, no signs of aggression or disease. They are swimming normally (for this species) and eating. They actively seek food of all kinds, but...

Okay, I am totally new to this forum but have a 55-gallon saltwater aquarium and a totally interesting situation! I have a banggai and pajama cardinal and didn't even think them breeding was possible or likely, but my banggai cardinal has been acting strange- not eating, staying in a corner...

hey guys i’m new to the hobby and i have a small clown and small banggai cardinal (about 1-1.5in). the banggai has been in the tank for about 2.5 weeks and clown about 1.5 weeks. the clown eats real well mysis, blood worms, flakes but i rarely see the banggai eat anything. he chews every food i...

hello! i own a 30 gallon tank (about 1 month in after cycle) and currently have an oscellaris clown + banggai cardinal , 2 small hermits, and one cleaner shrimp as well as some leathers and zoas. i’m ready to start researching another fish and thought it might be cool to get inspiration from...

Last night i went to bed and all the fish were fine. This morning i woke up and my yellow tailed chroma was dead my banggai cardinal was dead and one of my clown fish was missing his tail and died just a few minutes ago. My levels are Nirate 0 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Ph 7.8 or 8 And the saltinity is...

I have been watching my male BC for a few weeks, I noticed at one point early on I could see the 'pink spheres' in his mouth and then just last week noticed that I could see what appeared to be a mini BC peaking out. When he started to gape his mouth I thought that the time was very near...