Banggai Cardinalfish

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This native of the Banggai Islands of Indonesia is one of the most popular aquarium fish and one of the few marine fish that is now regularly bred in captivity. It is an endangered fish in the wild because of overfishing. Banggai are unusual in that the fish actually court each other before breeding. As in other fish species, the female lays the eggs, but the male cares for them.



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