anthias that are not aggressive

[billyzbear]

Looking for anthias that are not aggressive. I have had bimacs and lyretail and both were rather aggressive. I don't want to see the male chasing the female all the time or the male going after others. Can't we all get along.

 

[o2manyfish]

I have had good experiences with dispar, tuka, evansi, caberri and Borbonious


Dave B

 

[FWC]

Pretty much any of the "deep water" stuff. Some of the shallow water anthias can get a bit ornery (for example square spots)

 

[billyzbear]

I like the carberryi anthias, LA has them as semi aggressive. Tuka and evansi, aren't these hard to keep? Borbonious, seem to hide alot. Not really into dispars.
Randell's?

 

[RynoParsons]

Ive seen a few people struggling with the evansi's needs to be fed alot. I would love to get like 7 or 9 of them for my shallow reef

 

[gsiegel]

I like the carberryi anthias, LA has them as semi aggressive. Tuka and evansi, aren't these hard to keep? Borbonious, seem to hide alot. Not really into dispars.
Randell's?

Tukas are difficult to keep. I had 1 male and 3 female that were all doing great and eating like champs when i got them and all perished after about 2 months.

Dont know if you are looking for multiples but i love my sunburst, although they are not very active but are cool looking fish IMO and not at all aggressive. I know you mentioned lyretails - i have a trio of females with no issues with aggression whatsoever. They have plenty of room in their 280g but are typically swimming together anyway.

Best of luck

 

[billyzbear]

I want some fish that swim around.
The lyretail male I had was XL. He killed his mates, a few wrasses and a tang.
The bimac male I had killed his mate and sometimes go after wrasses.
I don't want a male that goes after his mate too much.

 

[snorvich]

I like the carberryi anthias, LA has them as semi aggressive. Tuka and evansi, aren't these hard to keep? Borbonious, seem to hide alot. Not really into dispars.
Randell's?

I too like carberryi. But remember anthias do best with multiple feedings.

 

[o2manyfish]

Here's my thoughts. Getting Anthias to feed well seems to be the challenge in keeping them. I have found that starting with a group of Dispar, which are hardy and relatively in expensive gives you a chance to get a core group of Anthias eating and doing well. Then the Carberri, Evansi, and Tuka will join that group and seem to take to eating in captivity with prepared foods much faster.

Just my thoughts.


Dave

 

[billyzbear]

Carberryi males are more mellow?
I would plan to get a male and a couple of females.
I feed twice a day.
Been doing some research on Randells but not much out there.

 

[snorvich]

Here's my thoughts. Getting Anthias to feed well seems to be the challenge in keeping them. I have found that starting with a group of Dispar, which are hardy and relatively in expensive gives you a chance to get a core group of Anthias eating and doing well. Then the Carberri, Evansi, and Tuka will join that group and seem to take to eating in captivity with prepared foods much faster.

Just my thoughts.


Dave

Yes, it seems that with anthias, "monkey see, monkey do". Very good point Dave.

 

[snorvich]

Carberryi males are more mellow?
I would plan to get a male and a couple of females.
I feed twice a day.
Been doing some research on Randells but not much out there.

Well, males always seem to "herd" the females in their harem. In my 8 foot tank, two males with two groups of females were interesting to watch.

 

[o2manyfish]

Snorvich, In my 8' tank I also had 2 groups. They slept on different sides of the tank, but then when they were out and about they stayed as one group.

Dave B

 

[billyzbear]

The boys didn't fight with each other or with females? Herd?
What I saw was the male would chase and dive bomb the females.
The lyretail would do this behavior with his females and then did it to any new addition to tank. I finally put a good size purple tang in with him. Later they would only fight when food was in the water because all the food was the lyretails and he didn't like to share.

 

[davocean]

My lyretails aren't what I would term aggressive really, an occasional chase.
I think the key here is to have enough females to spread that out a bit.
They were my first anthias, and also what helped w/ my finicky eaters.

 

[snorvich]

Herd?
What I saw was the male would chase and dive bomb the females.

That behavior is what I call "herding" which is an attempt to keep all of "his" females together, presumably to that none are tempted to turn male. Which is why I recommend longer tanks for anthias, especially if there is more than one male for a large group.

 

[CedzAquAddictio]

That behavior is what I call "herding" which is an attempt to keep all of "his" females together, presumably to that none are tempted to turn male. Which is why I recommend longer tanks for anthias, especially if there is more than one male for a large group.

This post is spot on...

If you have a female in transition to a male, it will somewhat bully the other females for the same reason...

 

[bradleyj]

In my 335g tank, I had quite a few of the deeper water species of anthias.
The only one that was a "buuly were the large tri color anthias. Otherwise they did very well together. Just stay away from the larger anthias.

When my tank cracked I lost all of my beautiful anthias. I am now in the rebuilding and restocking mode, but it will be a couple of years before it is back to what it was before.

 

[Buzzword]

What about Ignitus anthias, less on the aggressive side or not?

 

[MIKE NY]

Yes, it seems that with anthias, "monkey see, monkey do". Very good point Dave.

x2....all my non-agrresive anthias seem to shoal together...here in this pic are my Purple Queens, Dispars, Ignitus and Tiger Princess...normally Purple Queens sometimes take as long as a week or more to get them out and eating, but now with all the others they were out within a day and feeding in only a few....