I love Cardinalfish! their angular shape, their colours, their unique behaviors.
understand my surprise when i find that there isnt a whole lot about theses guys on the internet (exept the pyjama and the bangai)
i have a 55 gallon tank with three pyjamas, 3 bangais and 3 longspine cardinalfish. if i could have more, i would had 3 yellowstripe and 3 seales cardinalfish. maybe also 3 flames.
i made a whole lot of research on their behavior and their social structures.
when i bought them i intended for them to all school together and not to segregate themselves too much, and it worked!
my 3 pyjamas are the biggest and the first CF to be in the tank. they each like to stay in their own corner of the aquarium. the longspine are pretty much always together and share their shcool with at least one other fish. this is where it gets a little complicated: my bangais are in groups 1-2. (they are also the smallest fish) they take their turns being with a pyjama or the longspines. because of this weird setup, each individual gets to be in the school at least once a day. sometimes my silver belly wrasse joins the shcool or my clown goby.
for thoses who are curious about what i feed my fish:
-flakes (no fish's favorite)
-bug bites are the pyjama's favorite.
-frozen food, reef frenzy nano (the bangai's favorite) (and my clown goby)
i also have some amphipods in my aquarium.
feed my hermit crabs, pistol shrimp and yellow watchmen goby some hermit crab pellets, similar to bug bites. also my pyjamas are getting big enough to eat them whole.
im curently looking for what the longspine cardinalfish might enjoy the most. ive seen on the internet that some have troubles feeding them. hopefully seeing the others eat diffrent foods will incite them to eat more. im also looking for something that might trigger i better feeding response for my wrasse, since i never see him eat. hes not starving though, he has a little fat belly.
all my tank mates are getting along really well. my gobies and pyjamas are a little territorial, but they dont bully any fish and at the end of the day they all come together in a corner to sleep together.
my aquarium is less than a year old.
So tell me all about your love for cardinalfish! thoses i mentioned or otherwise.
maybe someone elses has plans to have a diverse school of cardinalfish?
understand my surprise when i find that there isnt a whole lot about theses guys on the internet (exept the pyjama and the bangai)
i have a 55 gallon tank with three pyjamas, 3 bangais and 3 longspine cardinalfish. if i could have more, i would had 3 yellowstripe and 3 seales cardinalfish. maybe also 3 flames.
i made a whole lot of research on their behavior and their social structures.
when i bought them i intended for them to all school together and not to segregate themselves too much, and it worked!
my 3 pyjamas are the biggest and the first CF to be in the tank. they each like to stay in their own corner of the aquarium. the longspine are pretty much always together and share their shcool with at least one other fish. this is where it gets a little complicated: my bangais are in groups 1-2. (they are also the smallest fish) they take their turns being with a pyjama or the longspines. because of this weird setup, each individual gets to be in the school at least once a day. sometimes my silver belly wrasse joins the shcool or my clown goby.
for thoses who are curious about what i feed my fish:
-flakes (no fish's favorite)
-bug bites are the pyjama's favorite.
-frozen food, reef frenzy nano (the bangai's favorite) (and my clown goby)
i also have some amphipods in my aquarium.
feed my hermit crabs, pistol shrimp and yellow watchmen goby some hermit crab pellets, similar to bug bites. also my pyjamas are getting big enough to eat them whole.
im curently looking for what the longspine cardinalfish might enjoy the most. ive seen on the internet that some have troubles feeding them. hopefully seeing the others eat diffrent foods will incite them to eat more. im also looking for something that might trigger i better feeding response for my wrasse, since i never see him eat. hes not starving though, he has a little fat belly.
all my tank mates are getting along really well. my gobies and pyjamas are a little territorial, but they dont bully any fish and at the end of the day they all come together in a corner to sleep together.
my aquarium is less than a year old.
So tell me all about your love for cardinalfish! thoses i mentioned or otherwise.
maybe someone elses has plans to have a diverse school of cardinalfish?