Banggai Cardinalfish

More exciting news, our Banggai Cardinalfish (male) is carrying eggs in his mouth!!! The hard thing is that we don't know how long he has had them so predicting when they will hatch is difficult! We bought him on Friday (3/19/10), calling that day one! I picked him because he had a bigger mouth and pouch look under the jaw, perfect for holding babies!

On Day 2 we feed our fish and noticed that he was not eating!!!

Day 3, Sunday, what was going to be our lazy day (Justin's last day off from his bday week) I noticed something red inside Cardinal's mouth and he seemed to be juggling it from one side of his mouth to the other! I found some great info on line and realized that they were eggs!!! So we ran around to make it to a couple different pet stores to get things to make a nursery tank and of course advice from someone who's fish have done this! We have the nursery set up just need a little more salt water to finish it and put in a damsel to test the water.

Today is Day 4 nothing new to report, got some pix! And a video of him "juggling" the eggs! (will try and put that up here but not sure how that works yet) I did feed the fish again today and he did not eat again (that is normal). With how big his cheeks and pouch under this mouth, think we don't have very long!!!