[MonopolyBag]

I plan on doing myself a project once my funds allow me to. I want to create the most natural looking aquarium, roughly 100 gallons, for Bangai cardinals that I can. I want to include a natural looking set up of live rock, corals native to the area, have a lot of Bangai cardinals, include the sea urchins they breed in, any natural native seaweeds and algaes, and have maybe a couple other fish native to the Bangai islands.

I need this your help because I spent the morning and last night looking for natural pictures of the area, lists of species of plant algaes, seaweeds, and organism (shrimp, crabs, hermit crabs, fish, corals) and found basically nothing. Other than where the Bangai cardinals are found. Bangai island in Indonesia. They now have moved to some straight and are breeding but I want their original habitiat replica.

So I am looking for the following.

-Where exactly the Bangai Cardinals live
-A fish list of that area
-An inverts list of the area
-The long spined urchins species name that the cardinal uses to breed
-corals list of the area
-type of sand
-type of rock
-pictures
-plant, seaweed and algae list of the area

-and any other info you can provide to help me make this aquarium as natural as possible

I want to try and get it to the point where the fish will end up breeding due to the fact it is so natural and like the original place they come from

If you feel I should go with a larger aquarium let me know. Or anything else you feel i must do or change.

Lighting is also an issue, as well as water flow and filtration are up for debate.

[spyke169]

Bangai Cardinals are native to the Bangai isnlands/ Indonesia. I googled bangai islands and come up with a couple sites. You may want to look at pictures people have taken when divning there.

bunaken

looking at the pistures I would say along with the Cardinals you could do a cleaner shrimp, or coral banded, A fire fish, a dwarf or regular size lion. May want to stay away from frog and leaf fish...

but I would continue to look into pictures people have taken while diving in the area!