Is this possible Uronema or simply bullying?

[Poriferabob]

So I decided to try another school of Lyretail anthias for my 180. Purchased from Liveaquaria (not my first choice, but because of past experience with anthias and their dismal survival rates as it is, I used them for the guarantee.) 8 medium females, and 1 medium male. Upon arrival, all were alive and appeared active. They were all promptly dripped into a fully established 40 breeder quarantine system. This quarantine had been set up for over a month and housed a damsel and Melanarus wrasse. 2 inch sand bed, and live rock aquascape along with some fake plants. It was going to be a coral grow out, but plans changed and I figured it would make the perfect QT for this batch of fish.

Anyways by day 2 they started what has become the standard in my experience, of dying one by one. Usually one a day. What's even weirder is that I can always tell which one will die next as though they become next in the queue or something. As soon as one dies, another starts acting lethargic and looking off, and always dies within a day or less, and then on the the next and the next and... Right now, I'm all the way down to only 3 remaining females and the male.
So all of this clearly sounds like aggression, but I NEVER see them acting overly aggressive at all. In fact, once one starts to look like its next to die the others typically don't even acknowledge its presence. I have been feeding upwards of five times a day with a mixture of mysis, calanus, fish eggs, flakes, all soaked in Selcon, Metoplex/focus. The tank itself is being dosed with Ruby Reef Rally and ran around 1.020.

One last thing to mention, the dead ones always show loss of color, raised scales and redness on their sides. What to me, sort of looks like Uronema. So with all of this said, does this sound more like aggression or disease?

 

[Qasimja]

i dunno what it is about anthias but i guess they dont QT well over the past 3 months ive ran QT on 2 carberryi anthias and 2 Squarespot anthias in the first batch one carberryi anthias just died 2 weeks into QT the last made made it into the DT 2 weeks ago i got 2 Square anthias one died the next day after being put in QT the other is doing really well almost ready for DT

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Sounds like disease and Uronema has been prevalent with Anthias as of late. I heard this nightmare story several times and even further many have stated they purchased from Liveaquaria. Sorry for your loss

I’d start treating your QT with metro ASAP and continue for minimum of 2 weeks. You definitely don’t want to introduce that to your display.

 

[jefra]

I lost an entire batch of Bimaculatus anthias from LiveAquaria to uronema just a few weeks ago. So it certainly is present in their anthias.

It’s a shame because I’ve purchased many anthias from LA over the years (lyretail, Bartlett’s, carberryi, evansi) and they were all very healthy. It’s hard to find vendors with a large supply of juvenile/female anthias.

 

[Big G]

Have had very good luck with anthias, wrasses straight from the shipping container Ruby Reef Rally bath, oxygenated & temp & salinity & ph matched, for 1 hour and then placing them into a fresh sterile QT that is dosed pre-dosed with Metro. Re-dosing Metro every other day for 14 days. And the food is also pre mixed with Metro + Focus + Food. You need to both feed with Metro & dose the tank with Metro. Uronema is a very tough customer.