Comments on: Banggai Cardinalfish given endangered status, yet still commonly available

By: marcia

marcia — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:00:21 +0000

I have several couples and the males countinuously eat or release the eggs from his mouth. The eggs are whitish and seems to be not fertilized. I also have some couples that are living some especies of soft corals for 6 months already. All my attempts have failed.
Water quality parameters: Salinity 30ppt, Temperature 27 degree celsius. Any suggestion?

By: glassbox-design.com » OKTOBERFEST | Hikari and Coral Morphologic Prizes

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:31:08 +0000

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By: saltwater aquarium

saltwater aquarium — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:28:59 +0000

very nice site, keep up the good work. I will bookmark and visit again

By: e&f

e&f — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:12:30 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Fortunately Eric Borneman did a presentation on Banggais at MACNA. Hopefully this will prompt some change amongst hobbyists.

By: glassbox-design.com » MACNA XX | ORA, MOFIB, My Reef Creations, Coral Dynamics

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:45:14 +0000

[...] Oceans Reefs and Aquariums was there with a colorful zero edge aquarium. They were one of the many with captive bred Banggai Cardinals. [...]

By: GSM

GSM — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:28:44 +0000

they are on the cover of the live aquaria catalog and listed as indo pacific for 19.99

i have an ORA but i had no idea they were endangered.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:02:00 +0000

Hear hear! I can’t be the only person in the world who would happily turn over my basement to trying to breed Bangaii Cardinals commercially were they to be banned commercially. It’s very difficult to compete with 1 cent wild caught fish!

Like the ongoing use of cyanide, Banggai collection makes it hard to justify marine aquariums to conservation-minded friends who ask me how I can keep a tank… I think overall marine keeping could be a positive force, because unlike say food fishing you have an automatic correlation with (theoretically) consumers who care and the ‘product’, and so who should in theory be happy to pay for best practice etc.

But again the Banggai situation throws this into doubt.

Great site, if I’ve not said so before.