Special Treat For My Orange Dendros

KeishaKornbread

KeishaKornbread

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My new Red Spotted Cardinal hasn't eaten since I adopted him last Wednesday and tonight I noticed him languishing in the current. The last time this happened a few weeks ago to one from my first set purchase, it died within an hour. I decided to just end his suffering and not waste my purchase....so I stuck my hand in the tank and grabbed him....and treated my Orange Dendro a fresh live dinner. The Cardinal tried to wiggle out, but he did not have enough strength to free himself from the mighty grip of my 2largest Orange Dendro polyps, Sodom and Gomorra. In the end, the smaller of the two won and enjoyed a fresh seafood dinner. Congrats, baby...I love you....and RIP, baby...I loved you.

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It happens. I figure out of each batch of these fish, 1 will live out of 3-4 I buy. THe two remaining ones are eating and doing well, and I don't plan on buying anymore.
 
Yeah, that's what I love about them. They stay in really tight schools. I was hoping for 3, but they are so hard to keep alive because they don't always feed and they do not travel well. My local LFS that gets them for me typically lose half of each shipment of these. Blue Zoo refuses to guarantee live delivery. They are excluded from their guarantee.
 
I think just this one. I can't find anyone online who has been able to keep them longer than 6 months. :-(

The Red Spot Cardinalfish (Apogon parvulus) usually suffers high mortality rates due to improper handling and not being fed properly. They are very fragile fish that need to be handled with great care. The shipping stress alone claims more fish than anything else. Couple that with a severe lack of proper food and amount of feedings, they stand no real chance.
 
These things are so tiny, I think the BWs would eat them. The two I currently have eat well. They love Rods and nibble mysis too. There turds are HUGE.
 
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