I was in Hawaii and we dove deep, the commercial collector I dove with collected 9, he had kept them successfully in the past, and he brought 3 to the Wiakiki Aquarium where they were fine last I heard, mine didn't survive the trip home. I posted pics with an earlier post on the trip and one on Hawaiian anthias by another member. The problem with them is they don't transport well, the collector kept them for a week in a 5 gal bucket with just an airstone, and they were fine, but the stress of moving them is what killed mine, I think they should be tried by hobbyists who are very experienced until we find the trick to keeping them, because it can be done, we just need to find out what triggers the stress that causes the failier. I think if a trick to transporting them is found more and more will be successful at keeping them long term. It is like leopard wrasse and moorish idols, they were considered impossible to keep not that long ago, but now there are lots of people are keeping them for years.
