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About Banda Cardinalfish
Small cardinalfish with a reddish to orange body coloration. Features two white longitudinal stripes running along the body and a pointed snout. The dorsal fin is distinctly separated into two sections, with the second dorsal fin aligned over the anal fin, a characteristic feature of the Apogonidae family.
Key facts
- Difficulty Level
- Moderate - Requires some experience due to specific dietary water or tank requirements. Best suited for intermediate aquarists.
- Reef safety
- Reef Safe
- Diet Details
- Feed live or frozen small meaty foods such as mysis shrimp, copepods, and small crustaceans. Cardinalfish are nocturnal microcarnivores and prefer small prey items appropriate to their mouth size.
- Care Level
- Moderate
- Diet
- carnivore
- Care Requirements
- • Minimum 20 gallon tank for a single specimen • Maintain water temperature between 72–79°F and salinity 1.023–1.025 SG • Nocturnal species; provide plenty of hiding places, caves, and coral structure for daytime shelter • Generally peaceful but may consume very small ornamental shrimp or fish; use caution with copepod-dependent fish • Feed small meaty foods; slow feeders that benefit from regular feeding schedules
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Common Health Issues
- Ich, parasitic infections, poor feeding response in captivity
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific, found in the Banda Sea and surrounding regions of Indonesia. This species occurs in tropical coral reef environments in the western Pacific.
- Feeding Schedule
- 1-2 times daily
- Max Size
- 3
- Appearance
- Small cardinalfish with a reddish to orange body coloration. Features two white longitudinal stripes running along the body and a pointed snout. The dorsal fin is distinctly separated into two sections, with the second dorsal fin aligned over the anal fin, a characteristic feature of the Apogonidae family.
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