Can anyone id these anthias

[fishysteve]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1796361

 

[Korrine]

???Pseudanthias evansi (Smith 1954), Evan's Anthias, Yellowback or Yellowtail Anthias. Indian Ocean, eastern Africa coast over to the Maldives. To five inches in length. A difficult aquarium species. Similar to the hardier Pseudanthias bartlettorum, which has a yellow dorsal fin. Below: Aquarium, Maldives and N. Sulawesi images.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/anthiina.htm

 

[fishysteve]

Thank you very much. They were definately labeled wrong at the store today. Wish me luck.

 

[Korrine]

welcome

What did they call them?

 

[fishysteve]

Purple anthias.

 

[Korrine]

Ya know, it could possibly be that too. One of the photos of Pseudanthias tuka on the second page of the article I posted does appear to have a bit of yellow. Either way these are hard to keep too. Good Luck

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/anthiines_ii.htm

 

[fishysteve]

I think they're the P. evansi like you suggested first. The pictures don't do them justice.
The salesman claimed they have been eatting brine shrimp. I have cyclopeeze, Rod's food, rotifers, and spiralina infused brine shrimp to try.

 

[Korrine]

Now that you mentioned it, I've read of a lot peole having success with difficult to keep fish using Rod's food. I haven't used it myself, but that's what I've read.

Keep us posted

 

[fishysteve]

I will. I fed my tank about an hour after I added them and the two of the four that I bought seemed to be eatting the cyclopeeze. The other two didn't start swimming around before the lights went out.

 

[tcmfish]

Those aren't evansi. They are juvi purple queens. Pseudanthias tuka.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1774086&highlight=purple+queen+anthias

The ID was correct, but vague at the pet store.

 

[Psionicdragon]

Those aren't evansi. They are juvi purple queens. Pseudanthias tuka.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1774086&highlight=purple+queen+anthias

The ID was correct, but vague at the pet store.

Evansi 99.99% sure. If it has a holographic purple then thats it.

Purple Queens don't really have yellow. They have an orange look to it and from those pics that were linked, the tank has been drowned out by Actinic.

 

[fishysteve]

I'll try to get a better pic today. I need to get a DSLR, my camera just doesn't take good aquarium pictures.

 

[Korrine]

If that was with your camera, go ahead and try the flash. Or change your iso settings to a higher setting so it will take a quicker picture.

 

[SDguy]

P. tuka.

While I usually like WWM for ID's, their anthias section is a total mess

 

[fishysteve]

And then there were none. I knew I should have left them at the store. I never did see two of them after introducing them to the tank. I came home from work the other day and one was stuck to the overflow upsidedown elbow. I have the beananimal failsafe overflow design in an almost coast to coast overflow. I think it went in the overflow and got exhausted by the current in there and finally died. I have about 1500 gph flow through my sump. Later that night I saw the other one being eaten by a pile of hermit crabs. I should have known better. I have only lost maybe three fish in eight years in the hobby. A copperbanded butterfly, a lemonpeel angel, and a purple tang. I'll leave the anthias to the experts and the ocean in the future. Thank you for your help everyone. I tried my best.

 

[SDguy]

Thanks for the update. It's never fun talking about the loss of a fish, but I think it adds to the info out there... maybe helping others avoid such problem fish.

 

[Matt_Wandell]

Evansi 99.99% sure. If it has a holographic purple then thats it.

Purple Queens don't really have yellow. They have an orange look to it and from those pics that were linked, the tank has been drowned out by Actinic.

They are not P. evansi. In P. evansi the yellow is contiguous throughout the tail.

They're juvenile/female P. tuka.