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ReeferMonkey
02/05/2006, 08:16 PM
Anyone have any experience keeping the Candy Stripe Cardinal? Based on the picture on Saltwaterfish.com, I'm guessing it to be Apogon endekataenia but I'm not positive. Description says primarily nocturnal. I'm thinking it has some potential as a small, busy schooling fish? They're also cheap as dirt.

Anyone?

http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/Candy-Stripe-Cardinal_499_4_61_69.html

Amphiprion
02/05/2006, 08:25 PM
This species appears to get somewhat bigger than what saltwaterfish.com says. From my experience, they top out at 3-5 inches and don't seem to school or shoal very much. They are also primarily benthic invertebrate hunters (mainly crustaceans).