Purple Anthias!!

[Roberto CRC]

Hi friends,

Since last Saturday I bought 2 purple anthias, in the aquarium where I bought them and they had 15 days for which I encourage them to buy them since at least they would not die of hunger due to the stress of import from the USA to Costa Rica.

But from the day I introduced them to the tank, bone on Saturday night they just go hidden and the only way to see them is when the lights are off or in very small moments when the lights are on but if I approach the tank hide among the rocks.

Why is this behavior?

Are they usually like this?

My fish list is:

1- purple tang
1- yellow tang
1- fox face
1- blue tang
1- black ocellaris
1- diamond goby
1- cardinal bagay
1- wrasse cleanner
1- yellow coris (This was also bought on Saturday)
2- purple anthias (These are that hide)

My tank are 150 gallons.

I leave a video taken from Youtube so you can see which ones are, mine are the same but they do not have the yellow line yet.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Purple queen anthias can be a chllenging species. They do better in large groups, like high flow, often need to get started on newly hatched baby brine. They can get used to bright lighting, but will prefer dim lighting in the beginning.

 

[Roberto CRC]

Purple queen anthias can be a chllenging species. They do better in large groups, like high flow, often need to get started on newly hatched baby brine. They can get used to bright lighting, but will prefer dim lighting in the beginning.

I understand, I wonder if it will be by lights because if I acclimated them at night and the lights went on until the next day at 1 pm, then they had almost 18 hours in the dark, but after that they are already with normal light from the fish tank To keep the corals.

With food there is no problem, they were already eating pellets in the Aquarium Shop where they buy them, but in my tank is where I see the problem since if they do not leave their caves they will not eat anything.

 

[tripdad]

These are notoriously hard to get eating, probably best to put in a dedicated quarantine tank first to have a better chance of getting them to do so. Good luck, I tried and failed, hope you succeed.

 

[Roberto CRC]

These are notoriously hard to get eating, probably best to put in a dedicated quarantine tank first to have a better chance of getting them to do so. Good luck, I tried and failed, hope you succeed.

Thank you, I hope to be lucky because I bought them because in the store they ate pellets. But my big challenge is that in my tank go out and keep feeding.