Dispar Anthias

[mattsilvester]

Hi All,

Recently I saw a tank with a huge groupe of dispar anthias. The tank looked like a 180. There was probably 100 anthias!!!..... maybe more!!! It looked amazing. There was more than one male in the group.

Obvisouly, you cannot just add all these fish at the same time..... I have 4 fish now, and I don't think I want to go quite as intense as 100!!! But I would be keen to have a large group - maybe 30 or so. So how does one go about building up the group? Add say 10 at a time and try to get all females?

 

[o2manyfish]

In all my years of keeping salt tanks, I for the first time added Anthias about 5 months ago. I started out with 8 Dispar, one jumped and one didn't make it. The remaining 6 are doing great. I started with all females. My 6 swim together during the day but at night sleep in 2 groups on opposite sides of the tank. I now have 2 males and they seem to get along well.

In December I added some Evansi to the group. And while they hang out together during the day the Evansi just won't eat as well as the Dispar.

I definitely plan to add more to my group. I will probably add in groups of 8-10.

I know this wasn't the experienced answer you were looking for, but at least you know someone is thinking along the same lines as you.

Dave B

 

[DopeCantWin]

Hi All,

Recently I saw a tank with a huge groupe of dispar anthias. The tank looked like a 180. There was probably 100 anthias!!!..... maybe more!!! It looked amazing. There was more than one male in the group.

Obvisouly, you cannot just add all these fish at the same time..... I have 4 fish now, and I don't think I want to go quite as intense as 100!!! But I would be keen to have a large group - maybe 30 or so. So how does one go about building up the group? Add say 10 at a time and try to get all females?

Dispar Anthias are 30 a pop, so that would be 3000 worth of fish. Is it possible they mated and a bunch of babies made it?

 

[jaa1456]

Dispar Anthias are 30 a pop, so that would be 3000 worth of fish. Is it possible they mated and a bunch of babies made it?

That would be great if it was the case, but there are no known anthias to ever be bred in captivity and raised to an actual fish.

 

[mattsilvester]

Dispar Anthias are 30 a pop, so that would be 3000 worth of fish. Is it possible they mated and a bunch of babies made it?

30 a pop - not in Bangkok there not

 

[DopeCantWin]

30 a pop - not in Bangkok there not

Didn't notice, out of curiosity, how much are they. I've heard of some amazing tanks in Bangkok, among other things.

 

[geaux xman]

Check out bullitr. He has a TON of anthias/wrasse in his tank. I think his fish count was like around 100.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1822301&page=30

 

[mattsilvester]

Didn't notice, out of curiosity, how much are they. I've heard of some amazing tanks in Bangkok, among other things.

about $3US

 

[geaux xman]

My bro is working/living in Malaysia. He said fish and corals are DIRT cheap there.

 

[mattsilvester]

My bro is working/living in Malaysia. He said fish and corals are DIRT cheap there.

It varies..... a 4-6" queen angel or Sohal tang will set you back $250-350 ..... a 6-8" emporer angel about $60-$90 ...... a 6" pink tail trigger about $10..... 8-10" clown trigger about $60.... 4" regal angel about $20 ..... clownfish, anthias, gobies, chromis, anthias, damsels, firefish, wrasse of any kind, etc. no more than $1-3 each. Corals highly variable - depending on origin ..... but follow the same trend as fish.

Liverock is a treat - its about $5-10 per peice (not by weight) with the midrange size being the size of a football (NFL).

The hobby is certainly cheaper her for most things - including glass tanks..... but imported equipment from the US or Europe is pretty expensive..... that being said Chinese copies are quite good and so cheap that you just need to oversize everything a bit to compensate, and get the same results...... at much lower cost.