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Baby’s Bangai’s in the small display!

gmdcdvm

gmdcdvm

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Well,
The baby bangai’s finally made it into the smaller display tank. I apologize to those who showed interest. It’s been a struggle to coordinate sales due to time constraints or location, work trips, vacations.
Ended up with 12 babies. All eating really well. Need to confirm with my son, but I think he wants to keep 4. So probably sell 7 or 8 of them.
It’s been a cool ride. But after a while not worth the effort if you look at it from purely a financial stand point. I wonder how the commercial guys do it. They are finally easy. Eating whatever goes into the tank. No more baby brine shrimp!


Gerry
 
Some updated pics. I wish these fish would hangout like this when they get older. It is really cool to see them move as a group. With their patterns it creates a cool shimmer like effect. From what I have read or seen they will pair up and eventually kill off their competitors. Makes me wonder if you have enough of them together will it work out???? Still have twelve of them. It is interesting to see the size discrepancies. About 3 to 4 are quite a bit bigger than rest. Thankfully, the wrasse and clowns are leaving the little ones alone. Still have a total of 12.



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gmdcdvm said:
Some updated pics. I wish these fish would hangout like this when they get older. It is really cool to see them move as a group. With their patterns it creates a cool shimmer like effect. From what I have read or seen they will pair up and eventually kill off their competitors. Makes me wonder if you have enough of them together will it work out???? Still have twelve of them. It is interesting to see the size discrepancies. About 3 to 4 are quite a bit bigger than rest. Thankfully, the wrasse and clowns are leaving the little ones alone. Still have a total of 12.



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Very interesting that this is the case. My ‘first memory‘ of becoming very much fascinated and interested in a reef tank was a display tank in a public aquarium in either Singapore or Switzerland several years ago - cannot remember exactly where - which was dedicated to Pterapogon kaudeni only, a large number of them which seemed to swim in school formation (update: most likely Singapore). The light and everything was perfect and it was both my wife's and my favorite display tank. We always wanted them (not sure if they fit into my tank though).
 
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How big was the display? I wonder if there is a critical mass where the aggression gets diluted out over too many individuals. But at $40-60 each I can’t see someone spending $400 or more to try that out and risk losing fish. I suspect it also depends on overall tank size. That’s why I wonder what happens if they all stay together. Keep toying with the idea of a long spine urchin.

I need to get a video at night when the main light is off and they get some indirect kitchen light. That’s when it looks cool.
 
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