Whats your experience with Anthias?

[loumaggs]

What fish trap have you had success with?
(I don't need one at the present, but it would be nice to know in case I need one some day.)

thanks.


Allen

I have an aquamedic fish trap

 

[abinder]

Thanks for the info loumaggs.


Allen

 

[loumaggs]

My pleasure Allen

 

[1stNoel]

I have an aquamedic fish trap

+1 on the AquaMedic.

It's not a matter of "if" you'll catch a fish, it's a matter of "can you catch him in there alone". I finally had to snare the trap with 3 fish inside, but I just scooped out the other two and placed them back in the tank.

One negative I found is that there's a slight delay with the trap door releasing when you pull the string...and it would give the fish that split second to dart out before it closed. I ended up just holding the trap door open with my hand (halfway open), placed food inside the trap, and then manually closed it once I had the fish I wanted. Overall, I highly recommend.

 

[ReeferReefer]

What do you think about a trio of Lyretail in a 90g with a foxface, flame angel, 2 fire fish and a leopard wrasse? Or would one do better?

 

[Mike Arnold]

I had a very mean and territorial tomato clown; I couldn't catch him with diy traps, so I ordered the aqua medic. It is a very nice high quality trap with a nice little food dispenser. The clown was very smart; he would sit right outside the trap door and wait for little bits of food to float out. Finally on the third day, I got fed up and decided to eliminate any type of flow and put some frozen shrimp in the back of the trap. I removed the little dispenser tube, and used my hand to put the frozen shrimp in the back of trap; ultimately, it was the clown's arrogance that got him caught; he rushed right in to attack my hand. I couldn't believe it

 

[zoomonster]

Here's my crowd in the order they were added in 200g. The only one I have tried in this tank I had no luck with is Sunburst. Just way to timid for my crowd of anthias, angels, tangs, wrasses, dottyback and blenny. I had luck with some purple queens for a while but that didn't last. I thought hard about a trio of ventralis I saw locally but passed. Forget the origin but basically they were the middle of the road ones. Nice but tricky and the price is still pretty steep. I think that trio was $550.

The red bars and bimaculatus are pretty aggressive. And its gone back and forth which male rules. The bimac caught up in size and I think reins now. The biggest red bar is brutal to the other two and in general. The tierra's and lyretail are just peaceful and happy go lucky. The lyretail gets picked on but when its feeding time he's the fastest fish in the tank. Except for the female bimac they eat pretty much anything that goes in the tank. She pretty much only eats mysis. They all eat at least 2 or more times a day. Out of all of them the Tierra's are the best schoolers and they are pretty small. I still want a Borbonius if the price is right. I was looking a long time for a nice male fiji red lyretail (like the one they have pictured now at LA) but ended up grabbing a nice Indian ocean male when I saw it locally. Got a female too but she mysteriously disappeared.

3 x Red Bar 1f and 1m and 1 not sure
2 x Bimaculatus 1m x 1f
4 x Tierra/Respendant 1m x 3f
1 x Lyretail 1m

 

[s2nhle]

Wow. great stuffs. learned alot. Thank you for sharing.

 

[AQSstudent]

I had a randalls that ate pellets. It was in my tank for maybe 2 hours before he jumped ship, unfortunately. Needless to say I haven't delved into anthias yet.

My tank is a 75 G mixed reef, with no aggressive fish besides a clarkii clown.

 

[ca1ore]

One thing I would add about some pseudoanthias species is that they don't always compete well in a community reef. The bigger species (hutci, lyretail, bimacs, squares, Bartlett, ignatus, probably a few others) do fine, but some of the smaller ones can be intimidated by large fish and slowly starve (resplendent, princess, red stripe, randalls). Still others just don't eat (tuka, evansi) reliably. Anthias do seem to be coming in with body ulceration problems as well; at least here in the US.

 

[s2nhle]

Great to know. Thank you for sharing your experience. More tips please.

 

[Koolaid]

What type Anthias are your considering?They range from easy, Lyratails and Bartlets to difficult like the Ventralis. Also, some prefer groups and other should be kept alone. Most require several feedings per day to thrive.

What type of anthia is this I've had him for a while he's been a great fish.

 

[james983]

There seem to be more types of Anthias available then ever before. He may be a hybrid. Looks to have the shape of a Fathead and coloration of a Huchtil, but I'm not certain. Nice looking fish though.

 

[ngvu1]

I like many types of anthias but they do better in group and they are fast swimmers and heavy eaters so I can't have them in my small tank :-(
I once had an Bartlett's anthias in my 55 gallon and it was OK for a few weeks, but one day I found it behind the tank all dried up! Now even with an 85 gallon tank, I still don't think I should get one. At least 150 gallon tank is what I need for them.

 

[eatbreakfast]

What type of anthia is this I've had him for a while he's been a great fish.

It's a hutchtii anthias. They are in the squammipinnis complex.

 

[Koolaid]

[QUOTparticular reakfast, post: 2915141, member: 33199"]It's a hutchtii anthias. They are in the squammipinnis complex.[/QUOTE]
That particular fish follows my foxface around the tank like a puppy