Ignitus Anthias possible in custom 90g?

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I lost a couple fish recently (one jumped, see thread about painful losses and another from old age, Linespot flasher). I was thinking about adding some Ignitus anthias, but wanted others opinions.
My tank is a custom 90g 36x36x16 with an open rock-scape and lots of flow.
Current inhabitants:
Yellow tang - will be in until some time next, then will re-homed
One-spot foxface - moving to his forever home in a couple weeks
Dragonface pipefish
Randall's assessor
Tanaka possum wrasse
Yellow watchman goby
Tangaroa goby
CB pair Ocellaris clowns (really chill behavior, kinda laid back for clowns)

Future inhabitants:
McCoskers flasher wrasse
Pintail fairy wrasse
Neon or Sharknose goby
Whitetail bristletooth tang (maybe?)
Trio of anthias (Ignitus)?

I'm not worried about feedings, I feed throughout the day. Heavy import and heavy export.
 
I liked my Ignitus but I couldn't keep them long term. They all died inside of a year. Same with the Randalls I had.

The smaller sized anthias are more difficult as far as disease resistant and hardiness.

I'd stay away from evansi.........they're difficult to acclimate and have a poorer track record than the others.

Bartletts and Lyretails I've kept for 5+ years.
 
The ignitus should be fine, though I would suggest 5 instead of 3.

I'vw found ignitus and dispar to be relatively hardy for anthias.
 
Thanks, I was leaning towards getting five. I found some evansi, but then someone bought one, now there's four. I may hold out for the ignitus?
 

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