I have 9 Lyretails in a 180 6 females 2 males and 1 sub male they been in there or almost a year can I add different kind of Anthias to the tank now or will the get killed. I would add females
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IMHO I don't have issues with adding different Anthias, I have the following in my 120G.I have 9 Lyretails in a 180 6 females 2 males and 1 sub male they been in there or almost a year can I add different kind of Anthias to the tank now or will the get killed. I would add females
IMHO I don't have issues with adding different Anthias, I have the following in my 120G.
7 Lyretail Anthia (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) - 1M6F
4 Hutchii Anthia (Pseudanthias huchtii) - 1M3F
3 Evansi Anthia (Pseudanthias evansi) - 1M2F
2 Blotched Anthia (Odontanthias borbonius)
These will not be my last anthias, and I feed hourly small amount of pellets. As I'm replying I have another Lyretail turning male, do you face aggression issue amongst same specie? I'm always in the opinion that only one male per anthia specie can be in a tank, especially my 120G.
These guys have been in my 120G for 6+ months. As mentioned, one lyretail is in the mist of transition, it's turned almost dark purple for for a week and now the yellow on the body is starting to show on second week, but whole fish is still dark, unlike the resident male.How long has that list been in your tank? I have 3 lyretails now with one dominate which I starting to change, however it seems to be stuck in a change limbo. I see the dorsal fin and slight coloration to red change, but has been "stuck" like this for 4-6 weeks now without a full transition. If this completes, I'll assume to have 1 M + 2F.
I want to add evansi's but glad to see you have mulitple males of a type in a single tank. Especially 120G.
I believe the 12 queens are too small (1") or frail to start with. I'm more incline with 1.5-2" anthias... so far it has been under 5% mortality rate including 2 week TTM QT.Wow that sucks to lose all 12 queens.
I think your experience with the evansi convinced me to follow a similar stocking to my lyrerails. The 3 I have now all eat TDO so will be leaving new anthias in a QT observation while they train to eat pellets as well. Otherwise they won’t last in my DT with all the other pellet eaters. Figured I might be able to observation QT 4 evansis in a 10G tank and feed mix of frozen plus pellets while they train.
I believe the 12 queens are too small (1") or frail to start with. I'm more incline with 1.5-2" anthias... so far it has been under 5% mortality rate including 2 week TTM QT.
As long as one takes to TDO, which I'm feeding as core diet soak with TM LIPOVIT and TM IMMUNVIT, with supplements of 1 cube of frozen HIKARI Mysis or Brime Shrimp daily.
I've ordered another 6 purple queen of 1.5-2", current under Copper and Prazi at LFS for 2 weeks. if they are ok then, I will take them, TTM over my end and in they go to my display.
I'm currently TTM QT my Mccullochi Clown.
I do mixed in HIKARI FROZEN MYSIS or BRINE SHRIMP with TDO to spice it up during the initial period.My lyretails won’t touch the NLS prob bc of the larger size. Been doing more TDO for them