Hi fellow Reefers, I've spent the last 4-6 months working to keep a shoal of carberryi anthias, and slowly over time I end up in the same boat of QT, add, aggression, some die, and I am left usually with 1-2 at the end. My current hypothesis is anthias hierarchy, and while I do have some emerald crabs the fish usually hide in the same spot for several days, and do not look like they have crab-esque wounds. Either way, given I've lost quite a few to this I don't think I can take the idea of adding more anthias just to subject them to a similar fate...
With that said, I am hoping I can solicit some ideas from the greater reef community on what other fish options I may have and use that to focus on and try to stay positive despite the recent struggles. Current tank is a 100G 48x24x20 with my plan to eventually be SPS dominant and currently I have:
Yellow Tang
Tomini Tang
Copperband Butterfly
Two Ocellaris clowns
Royal Gramma
3 Carberryi anthias (for now
)
Cleaner Shrimp
assorted snails and a few emeralds (plan is to slowly start evicting the crabs now that bubble algae is receding).
T;DR- what other fish do you think would compliment this current list? Thank you all in advance for your feedback
With that said, I am hoping I can solicit some ideas from the greater reef community on what other fish options I may have and use that to focus on and try to stay positive despite the recent struggles. Current tank is a 100G 48x24x20 with my plan to eventually be SPS dominant and currently I have:
Yellow Tang
Tomini Tang
Copperband Butterfly
Two Ocellaris clowns
Royal Gramma
3 Carberryi anthias (for now
)Cleaner Shrimp
assorted snails and a few emeralds (plan is to slowly start evicting the crabs now that bubble algae is receding).
T;DR- what other fish do you think would compliment this current list? Thank you all in advance for your feedback
