Keeping anthias

[grouper therapy]

Do any of you keep a shoal of Anthia ? What type ? How many? Feeding intervals?

 

[qasimja]

well for now i have 1 anthia im waiting on nemos on stone mountain to get another male eventually i want 3

Edit: squareback anthia that is

 

[crewdawg1981]

I've got a small shoal of dispar anthias that I've had for five months. I have an auto feeder that drops a small amount of pellets at 5 (lights come on at 4:30) and again at 11:00 (lights go off at12:30). I feed a cube of mysis or rods between then.

Sometimes I forget that cube, but everyone appears to be doing well, fat and happy.

 

[coolsurf]

I have a Lyretail trio. Very personable and beautiful. They are fed once per day in the evening. Frozen food and mysis.

 

[reeferman]

1 lyretail male and 3 females.fed chips and pellets once a day.

 

[jhutto]

Same here for me. A trio of females and a male. I feed once a day fleshy pe mysis or rod's food and occasionally drop pellets. I love mine.

 

[enderg60]

Lyretails, are awesome and will eat pellets
Bartlettes and squares are also pretty easy to get onto pellets
Disbars can be a pain to get eating but once they are they are great
fat heads / sunburst's are also good.

stay away from anything purple though.

 

[gmpolan]

I had a purple queen for a few months but as ender noted, they are hard to get to eat on a regular basis, not quite sure whatever happened to it...

Edit: I had a purple queen for a few months but as ender noted, they are hard to get to eat on a regular basis, not quite sure whatever happened to it...

 

[grouper therapy]

looking into the bartletts

 

[merkywater]

That is what I have Dave. I have 4 that stay together I do feed heavy I feed 4 times a day, they are fat and happy... They love PE mysis and mysis in general.

 

[morganatlanta]

I have three bartletts I got from Rit. The long nose hawk chases them around a bit, which worried me at first, but they've done great. They eat anything I put in and go nuts over small hikari mysis.

 

[wally]

Would 2 females and 1 male be ok to keep, or is 3 and 1 the norm?


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- Wally

 

[merkywater]

2-1 will work fine....for the record I got by Bartletts at Rits as well

 

[jmaneyapanda]

grouper therapy;681075 wrote: looking into the bartletts

Bartletts are ornery. Be prepared. Im curious, of all the accounts of previous "success", what is the time frame? Who has LONG term success, of say a year or more? Anthias are very tricky animals to keep socially. In fact, I would guess most die in aquariums from intraspecies agression, from people trying to keep them in groups.

 

[qasimja]

jmaneyapanda;681331 wrote: Bartletts are ornery. Be prepared. Im curious, of all the accounts of previous "success", what is the time frame? Who has LONG term success, of say a year or more? Anthias are very tricky animals to keep socially. In fact, I would guess most die in aquariums from intraspecies agression, from people trying to keep them in groups.

Does that go for all anthias or just bartletts

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[jmaneyapanda]

Qasimja;681336 wrote: Does that go for all anthias or just bartletts

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Well, all anthias, but Ive found especially with bartletts. They are not as dimorphic as other species, so not only is it harder to get absolute sexings, but there can be a lot more sexual competition between individuals.

 

[coolsurf]

I've had my Lyretails for 2.5 years now. They are one of the most enjoyable fish I have ever kept. They get along fine with everyone else in the tank and are very personable. They love to play games..very unique.

 

[grouper therapy]

jmaneyapanda;681331 wrote: Bartletts are ornery. Be prepared. Im curious, of all the accounts of previous "success", what is the time frame? Who has LONG term success, of say a year or more? Anthias are very tricky animals to keep socially. In fact, I would guess most die in aquariums from intraspecies agression, from people trying to keep them in groups.

Good point! Are there any that have had their Anthias say 5 + years? What kind if you have?