Red Spot Cardinal Fish laying eggs or something else?

[Matt LeBaron]

See the picture attached. There's virtually nothing on the internet about breeding these guys. Rumor is that Foster and Smith has tried/done it before (that is where I got them from) but I had thought since they were cardinal fish that they were mouth brooders.

 

Or as my paranoid brain usually goes to the worse case scenario, is this some type of disease?

 

See picture I took below:

 

 

[marinap]

Those are eggs on the female. The male should get them within 24 hours or so.

[Coral Hind]

That is awesome!

 

Marina, so what does the male do with them?

[Valeria]

I could not post from work but this is what I wrote to Matt

 

Yes those are eggs. How many red spot cardinals do you have?

The male should scoop them up and hold the eggs for 6-7 days

and then release larvae but not sure which strand of rotifers you

would need. This is very exciting as these guys usually die during shipment.

 

I hope Matt is able to grow them out.

Edited March 9, 2012 by Valeria

[marinap]

That is awesome!

 

Marina, so what does the male do with them?

 

He will hold them in his mouth. No appropriate first food has been discovered yet. S-strain rots are too big. Nobody has raised them in captivity.

[Coral Hind]

That's sad, hopefully someone finds a food source soon then. Thanks for sharing the info!!

[Matt LeBaron]

Might be a moot point, the female disappeared. I have no darn idea what happened to her and all of my other cardinal fish are eating so I don't think any of them picked the eggs up.