Blue Cheeked Cardinals (Apogon leptacanthus)

Blue Cheeked Cardinals Head On

Left picture by Lisa Page.

13 were added in January 2003. They are really rather cryptic, as they would be in the wild, and spend most of their day skulking among the branches of the gorgonian where they hover in pairs. Part of their day however is spent in the open water in a shoal.

Pregnant again

These mouth-breeders spawn every fortnight, with the male carrying the young, but I have not yet seen any fry.

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