Baby Bengai appeared this morning!

xler8r · 06/23/2016, 07:40 AM

Hi everyone!
I woke up this morning to find swimming in the lowest flow area in my tank a baby Bengai Cardinal! This was pretty unexpected as I'm still under a year of having this tank and didn't know my pair were breeding.

It's pretty unfortunate though and maybe you guys can shed some light on this. Just 2 days ago in the morning, one of my pair I found laying on its side in basically the same spot I found the baby today, not moving but still breathing. I captured it and put it in my little floating breeder box and even after 20 minutes it still wasn't changing so I figured it was dying like some of my other fish. I had noticed for a while one of the pair was not eating and in the past week saw the 2nd one was not eating... saw something like this coming.

This morning I read this topic that was posted on the forum and now makes me think the pair were breeding. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1990387
I'm so not prepared/set up to breed any fish yet, haha. I don't want to let this little guy down but am really behind the curve and don't know the first thing about getting baby brine shrimp for this guy... so basically I put some small frozen Hikari Mysis and some BRS Reef Chili in his little container to see if he'd pick at either.

Any feedback is appreciated!

xler8r · 06/23/2016, 07:44 AM

I'm not sure why it won't let me edit my previous post... but I'll try posting a photo again differently here...

collegereefs · 06/25/2016, 09:45 PM

Congrats on the baby. Sorry, about the pair. If you can separate the pair with a clear divider it would give the male a chance to put some weight on. If you can't get live brine for the baby you need to keep the frozen food in suspension with a bubbler or light flow of some kind. Hope this helps.

xler8r · 06/27/2016, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by collegereefs

Congrats on the baby. Sorry, about the pair. If you can separate the pair with a clear divider it would give the male a chance to put some weight on. If you can't get live brine for the baby you need to keep the frozen food in suspension with a bubbler or light flow of some kind. Hope this helps.

Thanks Collegereefs. I posted a video of them herehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEm...pFK7LPM2MI4WbQ on my Youtube page. They seem to be doing pretty well as I was able to find a shrimp breeding kit at the local store. Its funny though, they really only go after those baby brine shrimp!

collegereefs · 06/27/2016, 07:15 AM

They are known to be very stubborn about what they eat. It's best to start mixing in a few frozen baby brine over time.

shellsea · 07/07/2016, 10:43 AM

Congrads on the babies!!!! I too discovered babies (2 of them) in my overflow on May 27. About 6 weeks old now. 1 disappeared. Not sure if it went down to the fuge in sump or not. Its a jungle in there. Anyhow, my babies were given tiny bits of freeze dried brine shrimp and ate it. Now eating just about what ever little bits I put in the overflow. Hope to move the 1 survivor to a new frag tank I am planning.
Good luck with yours.

06/23/2016, 07:40 AM	#1
xler8r Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 14	Baby Bengai appeared this morning! Hi everyone! I woke up this morning to find swimming in the lowest flow area in my tank a baby Bengai Cardinal! This was pretty unexpected as I'm still under a year of having this tank and didn't know my pair were breeding. It's pretty unfortunate though and maybe you guys can shed some light on this. Just 2 days ago in the morning, one of my pair I found laying on its side in basically the same spot I found the baby today, not moving but still breathing. I captured it and put it in my little floating breeder box and even after 20 minutes it still wasn't changing so I figured it was dying like some of my other fish. I had noticed for a while one of the pair was not eating and in the past week saw the 2nd one was not eating... saw something like this coming. This morning I read this topic that was posted on the forum and now makes me think the pair were breeding. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1990387 I'm so not prepared/set up to breed any fish yet, haha. I don't want to let this little guy down but am really behind the curve and don't know the first thing about getting baby brine shrimp for this guy... so basically I put some small frozen Hikari Mysis and some BRS Reef Chili in his little container to see if he'd pick at either. Any feedback is appreciated!

07/07/2016, 10:43 AM	#6
shellsea Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Destin, Fl. Posts: 479	Congrads on the babies!!!! I too discovered babies (2 of them) in my overflow on May 27. About 6 weeks old now. 1 disappeared. Not sure if it went down to the fuge in sump or not. Its a jungle in there. Anyhow, my babies were given tiny bits of freeze dried brine shrimp and ate it. Now eating just about what ever little bits I put in the overflow. Hope to move the 1 survivor to a new frag tank I am planning. Good luck with yours. __________________ Jack "Shellsea" 120 mixed reef, Reef Breeder Photon 48, Apex and a proud owner of a Lifereef Skimmer

06/23/2016, 07:44 AM	#2
xler8r Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 14	I'm not sure why it won't let me edit my previous post... but I'll try posting a photo again differently here...

06/25/2016, 09:45 PM	#3
collegereefs Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 68	Congrats on the baby. Sorry, about the pair. If you can separate the pair with a clear divider it would give the male a chance to put some weight on. If you can't get live brine for the baby you need to keep the frozen food in suspension with a bubbler or light flow of some kind. Hope this helps.

06/27/2016, 07:15 AM	#5
collegereefs Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 68	They are known to be very stubborn about what they eat. It's best to start mixing in a few frozen baby brine over time.