Bartletts Anthias

[t5Nitro]

I have had these 3 anthias I bought from Live Aquaria for 1 week now. One of the anthias seems to be getting a dark maybe brown dot maybe 2-3mm in length on 2 fins and the female bartlett has a white spot on its tail, but I don't know if it is ich because it doesn't seem to spread. They do eat like no other yet, way faster than my yellow tang.

Any idea what it is?

Thanks.

 

[t5Nitro]

Oh, also to mention, the one with brown spots on, he is a male and the other male seems to be sort of aggresive towards him sometimes, hopefully I didn't get shipped 2 males and 1 female for one to take out the other.

The bigger male (has no brown or white spots) doesn't seem to let the smaller male come out. If the smaller one does come out, he basically chases/bites him back into the rocks.

Pics:

Female with white spot on the tail:

Male, brown spot near dorsal and on most of the tail (this one gets bullied by the other male):

 

[dfs/la2]

t5Nitro,

Thank you for sending us the pictures to view. It is possible that the spots you’re seeing could be signs of stress. We recommend checking your water parameters and watch for additional signs of sickness. Please let us know if we can be any additional assistance.


Cassie Z.
Drs. Foster and Smith
LiveAquaria

 

[t5Nitro]

Can't you view the pictures here? I posted a lot, here are some mnore of the one with the brown all over his tail and a dot of it near the back part of the dorsal. Maybe they are signs of stress, the female with 1 white spot is every so often tangling with the bigger male, and the one with the brown spots all over the tail doesn't even come out because if he does he gets chased or bitten right back to the rocks by that same bigger male, that big male is the only one with no spots and no one messes with him, so it could be stress. Water paramaters are in check. If it was stress caused by the male which it maybe is, I just hope it doesn't hurt the other male too much since these are expensive fish that I can't keep buying. I would have put on the order 3 females or 2 females and 1 male if I could have but there was no option, just thinking the baggers would net up the right group of them for no to less aggression. I think this just started too, unless it always has and I haven't been watching it much, maybe that male decided he was the dominant one and now is keeping the other male away, will this stop? Do I need to put in more fish to make the 3 stay together to kind of protect each other like a shoal? I have 2 clowns that are needing to be moved to the tank which may do anything, but next comes the yellow or powder brown tang.

If you aren't able to view it I will email them:

If you look hard you can see brown around the tail where it should be yellow. In person it is very detectable, just I can't grab a decent macro of a moving fish. In the first pic, you can see one brown dot on the lower part of the tail, and the third pic shows most of the tail more brown. There is much more of it but it isn't getting it well enough through the camera, hard to get a pic of the fish.

Thanks.

 

[dfs/la2]

t5Nitro,

Thank you for the additional information. It does sound like your larger Anthias is providing stress to the smaller male and female Anthias. We would suggest removing the larger male Anthias, as this item may kill the smaller male and continue to bully the female Anthias putting further stress on the fish. We do not suggest adding additional fish to reduce the aggression.


Cassie Z.
Drs. Foster and Smith
LiveAquaria

 

[t5Nitro]

Unless it is one of those things where they are just showing who is dominant like if you would put a tang in or something would maybe chase fish around? They were in there for only a week. I can't remove him, no where else to go.

 

[dfs/la2]

t5Nitro,

That is a great question. However, we feel that adding additional fish to the aquarium will not lower the dominant male Anthias’ aggression. It may actually be more stressful to the other specimens if the environment changes. If you wish to try and remove the Anthias, you can use the Fish Trap. If you are able to remove the Anthias, you can take him to a local pet store or possibly give it to a friend that has a marine aquarium.

We hope this information has been helpful. If you have additional compatibility questions, please feel to call our LiveAquaria Department at 1-800-334-3699.

Gwen S.
LiveAquaria