Anthias Care

[naprestsleep]

I have been reading/looking for some new fish for my 92 gallon aquarium, which is currently sparely populated with a couple clowns, couple cardinals, a Coral beauty and falco hawkfish. I have been looking into Anthias, but I am concerned I dont have the setup to properly care/feed them.

My tank lights are only on for 6 hours (Lumen Bright setup, hard to add antics), would 2-3 small feeding of NLS pellets in a 6 hour span be enough for anthias? I also only occasionally add a frozen meal, about weekly.

Thanks -- Joe

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

frequest feedings are a must.

certain species are "easier" than others to maintain- some are next to impossible to keep alive for long.

you'll need to monitor water as frequent feedings can ruin conditions for growing corals.

 

[tmz]

They need some swimming room too and can be aggressive to each other without an adequately large tank. Maybe. they'd get by on pellets but that might be difficult. I feed mine (squampinis ,bartlets and a large borbonius ) a mix of frozen( brine, mysis, bloodworm and cyclopeeze )2x per day. Perhaps someone feeding pellets to them will chime in.

 

[Randrew215]

Don't know if they are jumpers, but mine jumped. FWIW

 

[naprestsleep]

Thanks for the info so far. Maybe its time to look at something else.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

or ask questions about specific Anthias species.

Read Scott Michaels' 'Reef Fishes Vol. One'.

 

[superkat]

i have one surviving anthias out of 8. I fed those guys twice a day...rod's food and pellets...and slowly they started disappearing. they eat an enormous amount of food, and yes..the feedings did throw off the 120g readings quite a bit. i loved how they looked..as a schooling fish, however, hindsight being 20/20....would not try again. Looking basslets for future schools.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

JMO:

it's useless to discuss Anthias care in general.
Refer to specific species in order to glean any useful information.

"Anthias" care (in general) ranges from the next to impossible to very easy.