baby bangai
 

Had to share! I'm a proud new mom. We came home from holidays a couple weeks ago and I noticed my pair of cardinals had indeed turned out to be a male/female pair. On closer inspection, my boy had his mouth full of eggs. Not sure how long they'd been there, or when they would be gone as we have quite the mixed reef with what I'm sure has enough predators for the babies to be a nice light snack. Low and behold this little fellow made it to my sump and was swimming around this morning, so I transferred him to my refugium. The male still has his mouth full, so maybe we'll find a few more. Not sure what we do now, I never expected a baby. My Qt is in use right now, too, so I guess we just see what happens.

Hey congrats! The fuge sounds like the best spot for the little fella. Im sure others with more experience trying to raise fry will chine in, but perhaps artemia (baby brine shrimp)???? They are cheap and easy to hatch.

OH,
That is cute!

That is very cool! You must be proud :smile:

For a successful rearing, you need two things: small food and an urchin. Artemia will do for food although you'll need to gutload them. The best urchin to use is a long spine (diadema sp.). Or, if you don't want an urchin, you can use a surrogate (DIY urchin) made of a ball of epoxy putty with popsicle sticks or BBQ skewers stuck into it to simulate urchin spines. banggai larvae associate with urchins for protection

Very cool

I do actually have an urchin in the fuge, not a diadema, but a hitch-hiker with spines about 1 1/2" long, and it's so funny that just after I read justinl 's post I checked on him and he was over beside the urchin. I'm off the the LFS to check what they have for me.
(I kinda want to take my big boy out and shake him till he spits the others out, but I know that's bad--lol). I know I'm not gonna get anything done today because I'll be going to check out the sump every five minutes to see if there's more. I love this hobby!

.....and then there were TWO.

Wow congrats. This hobby is so cool :smile:

Very cool. Good luck with them I hope they make it.