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Baby Banghai

fishy408

fishy408

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About 3 weeks old.

If requesting please make sure you have the capacity time for them. Found them in the sump.

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I would love them!

They need a lower flow region with fattier, smaller food right? Do they need anything super specific like especially many feedings a day?

Will you be at the swap?
 
ohhhhh.. Never mind. I thought they were old enough to wean off live food esp since they are sump babies

Sorry- all the best to the fish, I currently do not have that bandwidth
 
tribbitt said:
ohhhhh.. Never mind. I thought they were old enough to wean off live food esp since they are sump babies

Sorry- all the best to the fish, I currently do not have that bandwidth
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I don't know how old these are, but based on the pics they look pretty small. And, even if they are older they would still require training to switch from live food to dead/frozen things.
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Chrism1330 said:
How hard would it be to take care of them on a scale from 1-10?
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From my experience, it is not hard, just a daily ritual that will need to happen for a long time. It took me a good 4 months to get these guys to eat canned copepods which I got from algae barn. Then it took another month or two to get them interested in frozen brine. Having live brine helped a little. Now, they eat almost everything. You need at least two brine shrimp hatcheries and ideally 3 so you can alternate them for a consistent supply. The shimp take about 48 hours to hatch. You feed them ideally two to three times or more per day. You have to keep up on the hatcheries. That is usually the biggest issue. The rest is just like any other fish only tank: heater, monitor ammonia, use a sponge filter since the little guys can get sucked up easily. Can switch to a HOB filter when they are older. Since there is a lot of wasted food during the training process you need to keep up the water quality. Mine would show an interest if the food was moving, but once it hit the bottom they lost all interest.

The bigger issue is what are your long-term plans? It will be a good 6 months or more before they are big enough for a display and even then, it has to be a very non-aggressive tank. I could see some wrasses and other fish picking at these guys when they are small.


Final answer on a scale of 1 to 10: probably a 5 if you have the time. Way easier than baby clowns from what I have read, but they take longer to get off live food than baby clowns. No need to culture rotifers of phyto, but they took forever to get off the live foods.

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gmdcdvm said:
From my experience, it is not hard, just a daily ritual that will need to happen for a long time. It took me a good 4 months to get these guys to eat canned copepods which I got from algae barn. Then it took another month or two to get them interested in frozen brine. Having live brine helped a little. Now, they eat almost everything. You need at least two brine shrimp hatcheries and ideally 3 so you can alternate them for a consistent supply. The shimp take about 48 hours to hatch. You feed them ideally two to three times or more per day. You have to keep up on the hatcheries. That is usually the biggest issue. The rest is just like any other fish only tank: heater, monitor ammonia, use a sponge filter since the little guys can get sucked up easily. Can switch to a HOB filter when they are older. Since there is a lot of wasted food during the training process you need to keep up the water quality. Mine would show an interest if the food was moving, but once it hit the bottom they lost all interest.

The bigger issue is what are your long-term plans? It will be a good 6 months or more before they are big enough for a display and even then, it has to be a very non-aggressive tank. I could see some wrasses and other fish picking at these guys when they are small.


Final answer on a scale of 1 to 10: probably a 5 if you have the time. Way easier than baby clowns from what I have read, but they take longer to get off live food than baby clowns. No need to culture rotifers of phyto, but they took forever to get off the live foods.

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Nice explanation! Sounds like you have to be religious with timing on the feeding and consistency until they get to eating everything. I hope those fish find a good home.
 
gmdcdvm said:
From my experience, it is not hard, just a daily ritual that will need to happen for a long time. It took me a good 4 months to get these guys to eat canned copepods which I got from algae barn. Then it took another month or two to get them interested in frozen brine. Having live brine helped a little. Now, they eat almost everything. You need at least two brine shrimp hatcheries and ideally 3 so you can alternate them for a consistent supply. The shimp take about 48 hours to hatch. You feed them ideally two to three times or more per day. You have to keep up on the hatcheries. That is usually the biggest issue. The rest is just like any other fish only tank: heater, monitor ammonia, use a sponge filter since the little guys can get sucked up easily. Can switch to a HOB filter when they are older. Since there is a lot of wasted food during the training process you need to keep up the water quality. Mine would show an interest if the food was moving, but once it hit the bottom they lost all interest.

The bigger issue is what are your long-term plans? It will be a good 6 months or more before they are big enough for a display and even then, it has to be a very non-aggressive tank. I could see some wrasses and other fish picking at these guys when they are small.


Final answer on a scale of 1 to 10: probably a 5 if you have the time. Way easier than baby clowns from what I have read, but they take longer to get off live food than baby clowns. No need to culture rotifers of phyto, but they took forever to get off the live foods.

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Thank you for the detailed explanation on caring for them. Hope someone has the capacity to raise them!
 
gmdcdvm said:
Good luck! Let me know if whoever picked them up needs any advice. You can PM me for my phone number. It was fun watching them grow. Ended with 11 adults that are waiting to go into the display.

Gerry
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They are a part of BAR and has been here for awhile. I will let them know and thanks for offering to share your knowledge/experience.
 
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