Anyone had luck with Purple Queen Anthias?

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Long term?

 

[Coral reefer]

I had a dream earlier (bad) about having bought some anthias and getting home and realizing they were purple queens and panicking about how they were all gonna die.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Damn you're getting old. I still dream of naked women and you dream of dead fish.

 

[DEATH BY SNU SNU]

Damn you're getting old. I still dream of naked women and you dream of dead fish.

Are you going through puberty, Bruce?

 

[Vhuang168]

I’m 0 for 7 on Tukas.

Good luck!


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[Wlachnit]

I tried them once 9+ years ago...back when I didn't know any better...they only lasted 1-2 months I think.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Everyone's next favorite anthias that are easier then?

 

[Vhuang168]

Dispars, Bartlets, Bimacs, Sunsets


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[Bruce Spiegelman]

Dispars, Bartlets, Bimacs, Sunsets


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Most peaceful of those?

 

[Vhuang168]

Peaceful? I’m not sure there are any nonpeaceful Anthias.


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[Gablami]

I had a male Bartlett that would be aggressive to fish smaller than itself. And anthias can be pretty aggressive towards their own kind, keeping a submissive female hiding all the time, etc. But in general, quite peaceful.


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[Corallus]

I love lyretails; easy to feed, not aggressive, but can hang with tangs, clowns and dwarf angels.

 

[Wlachnit]

Bartletts and Ignitus. Of the two, the Ignitus are less aggressive IME.


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[Thales]

We have had great luck with them in the big tank and in smaller tanks. The key is twofold - get them eating all kinds of food in QT and them feed them many times during the day once out of QT. Most people just dump them in a tank and hope, which tends not to work.

 

[rygh]

+1 on feeding Anthias!

http://www.liveaquaria.com/pic/article.cfm?aid=268

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Do any LFS stores in the area carry the San Francisco frozen Cyclops?

 

[Ibn]

Haven't kept them in awhile. Last set that I got weren't P. tuka but P. pascale instead. They came in with euronema and didn't clear quarantine.

I agree with Rich that you have to get them to eat and feed them often. The last P. tuka that I kept was back in 2012 and they were eating roe before I got them on pellets. They were then fed 8x a day via a couple of Eheim feeders. They got fat and were eventually given to Boun when I broke down that tank.

If you're looking at aggressiveness, from less to more:

dispars = purple queen, followed by ignitus, sunsets, bartletts, ventralis, bimacs

Here's the one of the dispar hanging out with one of the purple queen females in the background.

 

[roostertech]

+1 for lyretail. Very chill for the most part, the male will do a little chasing but no harm. Last but not least, they are cheap!

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Can you mix different male anthias? A lyretail and an Ignatius and a Evansi for instance?

 

[Wlachnit]

I have successfully kept Bartletts with Ignitus and Fasciatus in my 300g.