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Lovely fish, Matt. But it's a male dispar.

My problem that I had with ignitus, when I had them, was that the tail of the dominant male actually lost the red colored fork.
 
Lovely fish, Matt. But it's a male dispar.

My problem that I had with ignitus, when I had them, was that the tail of the dominant male actually lost the red colored fork.

Meh, same thing. :D Just color morphs.

Good catch actually. This tank had several "dispar" females to start with and then as they matured some were obviously ignitus and some were obviously dispar. I obviously didn't look very closely at the photo! I always look at the lower rear portion of the dorsal fin in males to distinguish them. In ignitus it is yellowish green. What characteristics of the face indicates to you the one above was dispar?

Here's another that *I think* is ignitus...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elt_lin/3651318457/

:D
 
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Yeah, that's an ignitus. Beautiful!

The pink pattern and shape of the orange dorsal area is different on dispar males. The distinctive oval orange patch on the dorsal area of the male dispar is pretty distinct.
 
Lemon Lemon,

Nice parvirostris. Are they hardy and do they eat aggressively? Are they shy with other anthias or other tankmates?
 
Matt,

Not to hijack the thread but I noticed the green chromis in with the anthias. Do you loose them regularly where they pick the weaker ones off like most people seem to experience in their tanks?
 
My Ignitus:

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Matt,

Not to hijack the thread but I noticed the green chromis in with the anthias. Do you loose them regularly where they pick the weaker ones off like most people seem to experience in their tanks?

No, but this was also a 250g tank, and they were only in it for about a year. Started as juvies, 9 total. They grew big and fast and then got moved to a much much larger tank. In our big tank they definitely carve out territories as adults and those territories are pretty large.
 
Pseudanthias Flavoguttatus.

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Great pic guys. Just wondering, does the male have to be bigger than the female? A friend is giving me a male pink squareback but its smaller than my females.
 
Very nice guys. Those Sunsets are incredible. You've got me thinking about adding a few!

So here are what i believe to be Resplendents. I really love them! I'll be adding 6-10 more in the future...

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Now I have 3 males to my 1 female!
 
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They're either resplendents or randall's. I always forget the distinguishing characteristics between the sister species.

Here's one of the males from my tank. They like to chase each other so lots of females and space will go a long way...
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The lady at the fishstore didn't know what she had. They received probably 15 different anthias of different species (or genus?). These 4 were in one tank and I bought them as a group. She charged me for ignitus anthias but at least one looks clearly like a maldives lyretail male.

Please help me with recommendations for treatment while in quarantine. I love these guys and want to get them through QT and into the DT as safe as possible.

This one is the larger one with prominent scales and botches on his pectoral fins
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This one is a smaller one but looks male. He gets picked on by the bigger one
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Here's a female with the smaller male(?)
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Poor females look like they're losing color. They also fight like females :) occsionally with biting and hair pulling.
 
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You've got at least 3 species there. The two males are P. squaminpinnis/cheirospilos and P. randalli/pulcherrimus, and the females appear to be P. dispar/ignitus.
 
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