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I previously had a trio of dispar anthias but one suicided against the opposite glass when I went to transfer them into a new tank system (that's what I get for not seeing the tank in 4 months, they weren't used to humans anymore). Now I have two dispars and I'm trying to decide what to do about this situation. Originally I was planning on two trios of anthias, but now that I have a pair temporarily I'm at a bit of a loss for what my best course of action should be. I was considering going for a group of 2-4 small female lyretails and one much larger male lyretail with the hopes that the similar colors might prevent the dominant dispar from bullying the smaller dispar to death. I much prefer the colors on my smaller dispar and would hate for her to have a rough time so I'd like to move quickly on solving this. Another option I considered was buying more dispar anthias but since there aren't any local healthy specimens I am aware of I would have to order and ordering dispar seems like a recipe for having 50% of the new arrivals dead. There are some healthy carberryi locally that I could also try as a dispar aggression diffuser. I have had carberryi with dispar in the past and they seemed to treat each other almost as the same species, but to me they look so similar that I'd rather the lyre tails or something else if possible or equivalent.
Any advice I could get from people with experience diffusing aggression in pairs or mixing anthias species would be much appreciated.
Any advice I could get from people with experience diffusing aggression in pairs or mixing anthias species would be much appreciated.