Aggression Problems with Lyretail Anthias?

[FishNutzBoi]

Hello Fellow RC'ers!

I'm stocking my 110G. Current I have:

Male False Percular clownfish
Female True Percular clownfish
Blue Hippo tang
Yellow Eyed/Kole tang

I would like to add a school of 3 female anthias into my mixed reef, but am hesitating because I've heard that they can become aggressive toward other tankmates. Has anyone have any aggression problem from these anthias?

I also want to add these fish (slowly of course):

Royal Gramma
Neon Goby
Randall's Goby
Mandarin
Midas Blenny

Anyone problem from the anthias with the above fish?

TIA!!!

 

[anthworks]

Tagging on this one. I am thinking the same thing and have almost the exact same stock.

 

[Angel*Fish]

I don't know if this will help - but I had a bicolor anthias who ate 2 yellow clown gobies, aggravated a blackcap basslet to death and kept all the other fish from using the cleaner shrimp. Everytime my flames or mandarins would rise in the water column to spawn, he'd charge toward them, breaking it up.

It wasn't easy, it was as if he knew I wanted him out of there, but I finally caught him and now he's living with other fish he can't intimidate.

He never bothered the clowns (they have a large anemone) The angels were fine with him as I'm sure tangs would have been (but I don't have any)


HTH

 

[anthworks]

I found this article online. http://www.reefs.org/library/talklog/s_michael_030401.html

 

[dodger1v]

Thanks for posting that article. That was a great read.

 

[FishNutzBoi]

Hmm...I'm leaning toward the dispar anthias now due to the known aggression from lyretails. I personally love the look of lyretail over dispar (maybe I just havn't seen good pictures of dispars) but I want to keep the aggression in my tank to a minimal.

Would dispar's do well in my tank with the posted fish list?

Can anyone post a few pictures of them please?

 

[Angel*Fish]

Here's what they look like while young - but they get a lot prettier.

Someone posted some gorgeous photos of them on this thread
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=875449&highlight=dispar+AND+ignitus

I see you live in Houston ... Aquarium World often has them in stock. I was there a couple of days ago and they had only one. But it seems to be a fish they typically order - just call first and ask for Summer or Dave (the owner)
www.aquariumworld.net

 

[falconut]

I had a single male Lyretail Anthias in my 90 gal. with a pair of False Clowns, Yellow Goby, Royal Gramma, Pinkspotted Goby, Mandarin, Yellow Candy Hog, Yellow Tang, Banji Cardinal and didn't bother anything. He was only food aggresive. Meaning he would shoot around the tank playing connect the dot with the food, sometimes bumping into other fish. He died during a power outage.

I now have 2 female Lyretail Anthias in my 90 gal. with Mandarin, Royal Gramma, Neon Goby, Yellow Tang, Blackspot Angel, Watanabei Angel, Bangei Cardinal & Pinkspot. Again, they don't bother any of the other fish. Occationally the larger female will chase the smaller female for about a second or two.

From my above experience with them, they don't seam to bother other fish. I had the male for over a year and he was the first fish in this tank. I had the females for about 4 months now. HTH