| Re: Fish Focus - Banggai Cardinalfish
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Originally Posted by BoomerD There is a couple in my local area who has had great luck breeding the bangaii's. I got 4 of their babies a couple of years ago, (less than 1/2" long) and put them in my 90 gallon reef. They immediately swarmed into the tentacles of my LTA. OH NO! I thought...till I did some research and found out that it's a normal thing in the wild...they hide in there for protection, and rarely get eaten by the anemones. For some reason, one by one, they'd disappear...I finally caught my sally lightfoot stalking one and watched it kill & eat one...POOF! that sucker went into my sump until I could take it to the LFS...the last remaining one lived for a couple more months, (still hiding in the LTA, till one day, when I was cleaning the tank, I startled the LTA, and it withdrew into the sandbed, taking the cardinal with it...never to be seen again.  |  oh noooo...that story was sooooo sad!
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