Hey thanks guys. I have been doing some reseearch on these and found a good article from Hawaii. It suggested making a fake diadema sea urchin with plastic wires and
pvc caps so the fry could hide. At the moment the fry are still in the mouth of the dad, and i see fins and eyes poking out every now and then. So far, i have not seen any leave his mouth to eat. I tried target feeding some cyclopes-ez but they ignored it.
I still have an ugly (not that the fry care) 10 gallon hex tank. What would you put in there Dick? Would powerheads suck up fish and make fry sausage; what about an air bubbler? Maybe i could plumb the hex into the main tank for heat and O2, would that be worth doing? I could toss in a couple pieces of
LR and a small ball of chaeto from the
sump to give them some copepods to munch on.
I was thinking about trying to move the male cardinal while the fry are still in his mouth. If i can coax him into a jar or trap of some type i could move the lot without exposing them to air (theoretically reducing stress). Do you think this would be worth a try or might it stress the male to the point of spitting out or eating his young?
Oh, i will post pics when i find a new camera. My piece of junk broke.
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"If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.... There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region."
Herman Melville,
Moby Dick, Ch. 1.
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