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So the resplendent still has a little yellow in the tail but not the head. Perhaps a changing female?

And one of the ignitus has a much darker red dorsal fin. Male?

You can tell the ignitus and resplendent are relatively peaceful unless the two ignitus are bickering between themselves. Otherwise the two are inseparable.

The lyretail is certainly more aggressive and stakes out his place more aggressively.
 
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Thanks!

Can you recommend qt procedure particularly for anthias? Prazipro? Hypo? Copper?

I don't do any of that unless I see something on them. Anthias generally are pretty disease resistant, including those species. As long as you don't mix other fish in with them, just observe carefully.
 
Plectranthias inermis

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I think this is a cool thread. Hopefully it will gain some popularity. Here's a cell phone pic of one of my new Tricolor Anthia.

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I think this is a cool thread. Hopefully it will gain some popularity. Here's a cell phone pic of one of my new Tricolor Anthia.

Neato. Haven't seen too many of these in the aquarium trade.

Here's a group shop of about 1/5 of my anthias. My ignitus didn't come out for this shot, so all I have here are my purple queens, dispars, and evansi popping out.

I took this photo to show my purple queen turning male! I've had ignitus, dispar, and lyretails change sex on me, but this is the first time ever seeing a purple queen change in my tank. I picked up this female last April. It started changing in early January after the my only male purple queen died in December (this was a huge blow for me. he was a hardy eater, fatter than even my dispars, and an ideal reef citizen. His sudden death after 11.5 months in my tank is still a mystery). You can tell in this photo that the yellow stripe right below the dorsal fin is still faintly there. This pic was taking two weeks ago. The yellow stripe is completely gone now and he's developing a very dark purple (almost black!) patch on his dorsal fin.

 
i just picked up 3 sailfins, and although not as colorful as the pic above, i'm very pleased with them. Looking better and better every day.
 
a few of mine over the years...i only try to keep the peacefull ones now except the maldive Lyretails..here the non- agressive ones tend to shoal together ..in this pic there are Purple Queens, Dispars, Ignitus and Tiger Queens


my pair of Sunburts


some individuals
female Purple Queen


male Purple Queen


Saddle back


Sunset


male Maldives Lyretail


male Lyretail
 
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