amcvay1979
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From my observations from trying to establish harems and reading about how to do it, the lyretails and most other species are just plain mean to each other. The females will basically pick on the smallest in the group constantly, chasing it around the tank and eventually it will starve or just get so stressed it stops eating. Didn't matter if I added them all at the same time, or a few at a time, the smallest one would eventually be so picked on that it would die. Same with Bartlett's, the smallest would just get picked on to death. You'd see fins with bites out of them, etc. I really did love the constant swimming and schools of anthias in my tank but I'm just done with them, I think they belong in the ocean and that's where I'll keep them.