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Xirxes23
07/29/2007, 09:16 PM
My bengais have been breeding for a while in our 90 reef, and today i pulled some of the babies to see if i could save them from being the display's dinner.

13 of them are now in the fuge! enjoy the pics.

First shot has fingertip for sizing.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c39/NicholeS29/bengai1small.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c39/NicholeS29/bengai2small.jpg
happyface888
07/29/2007, 09:20 PM
Wow thats pretty neat, did the adults keep them in their mouths?, do they eat? Wow your pretty lucky how did you manage to fish them out?
Xirxes23
07/29/2007, 09:22 PM
yeah they are mouth brooders, i moved the male into a bowl, ready to physically extract them, and he spit them out as a last ditch evasion method i suppose.

Tossed him back in and took these little guys to the fuge.

Dont know if they are eating yet, but that fuge has millions of little mysids.
annamarie421
07/29/2007, 09:45 PM
They're adorable!!! One of these days I'll have a pair. Good luck to you on raising the fry!

Anna :)
dc_909
07/29/2007, 10:08 PM
That is very cool.
CeeGee
07/29/2007, 11:14 PM
extremely cool!

Good luck with them. Let us know how they fare!
hooterhead
07/29/2007, 11:41 PM
biologist friend of mine had his banggais breed and did the same as you, throwing them into his fuge. Said they almost wiped out his mysid population. Hopefully they'll do as well for you as they did for him!
Xirxes23
07/30/2007, 12:16 AM
i can imagine that they will put a sizable dent in the mysids, but by that point, i will probably try to keep them in an inside tank enclosure that i can start to feed baby brine, just to keep the population there.
happyface888
07/30/2007, 12:20 AM
where did you get live mysis?
Xirxes23
07/30/2007, 12:25 AM
years of growth without fish in refugiem has given me a dense cloud of mysis of all sizes in my 40 fuge.

I run very low nutrient, so very little macro grows in it, and i never trim it, so its just filled with sand, live rock and red kelp.
specialkb
07/30/2007, 04:49 AM
that is awesome keep us posted on how it goes.
Eel-byte
07/30/2007, 06:54 AM
Love the pics!! Bengais are one of my favorite fish. Good job!
skeeter-doc
07/30/2007, 12:37 PM
very nice, and congrats indeed!
rbrusletto
07/30/2007, 12:50 PM
wow, those are tiny and cute!