For all you anthais experts, mixing P. flavoguttatus and P. aurulentus
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Here is the current list (some changes will be made down the road as noted)
Pair of Resplendent Hybrid Angelfish
Pair of Picasso Clownfish
Pair of Candy Basslets
Mandarin Dragonette
Filamented Flasher Wrasse
Anthias Aurulentus
Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
Pygmy Hawkfish
Foxface (getting big...may trade for small guy when I find one)
Black Tang (may sell when he gets to big for the tank or aggressive in any way...really mellow guy thus far)
I think I speak for everyone when I say
You are to funny, hehehehehe
Yup, still have the Hybrid pair. Cute little buggers
. The candy pair are a new addition...a little over 2 weeks in the main tank...and they are out way more than I expected. last night they were out from the time I got home until I went to bed. Very active pair . My big gorgeous male lineatus, The General, died suddenly last year. He just up and flipped around the tank and keeled over one day. If I didn't know better I'd think it had a seizure or something. The sub adult male was fine and I sold him to a friend of mine a few months back as he was a major jumper risk and was a bit sketchy, personality wise, for the main display. He is happily kickin it in my friends tank.
ShrimpChipGal
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Well, we had both species but never in the same tank. However, the aurulentus were very aggressive toward each other. Also, the male can grow up to 5-6 inches from tip of nose to very tip end of tail. 
Best of luck to you and hope to see lots of photos!
Best of luck to you and hope to see lots of photos!Well, we had both species but never in the same tank. However, the aurulentus were very aggressive toward each other. Also, the male can grow up to 5-6 inches from tip of nose to very tip end of tail.
That is big!!!! Interesting, I had two small female aurulentus with the male to begin with but they stayed hidden and eventually perished after 3-4 months despite coming out for food failry regularly. I never saw any aggression but that does not mean it wasn't there. I have noticed that the male just keeps growing
, quite beautiful. I have a small nano tank that I may put a couple of the Flavoguttatus in "just in case"...After I observe them in the holding reef for 3-4 weeks I should have a better idea as to exactly how I will play this out.Oh, photos...well, lately my photography skills have really crapped out and I cannot get a decent photo of any of my fish...I suck
Update for ya all . I received four Anthias flavoguttatus on Saturday, one DOA . The other three seemed fine through acclimation but I noticed one of them was not spunky at all when I captured it for release into the tank. It ended up perishing today, the other two look great. One is larger than the other. Both of them are quite small so I hope they color up a bit more as they grow. Presumibly they will be fine, hehehe, both are eating well. So my hope for a small school of five, if you can call that a school, has been reduced to only two.
. I received four Anthias flavoguttatus on Saturday, one DOA . The other three seemed fine through acclimation but I noticed one of them was not spunky at all when I captured it for release into the tank. It ended up perishing today, the other two look great. One is larger than the other. Both of them are quite small so I hope they color up a bit more as they grow. Presumibly they will be fine, hehehe, both are eating well. So my hope for a small school of five, if you can call that a school, has been reduced to only two.
xxtriggermanxx
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call it a study group!
:lol2::lol2::lol2::thumbsup:
Thought I would update the study group...Sadly all perished. The two that were eating well in early June became one after three weeks...the one that perished had looked kind of funny all along, sort of a big head and pinched tummy. I suspected that whatever he/she was eating was not doing much for him/her, weird. I don't know enough about fish to make an educated guess about what happened. The lone flavo looked good, continued to eat well until 6 days ago. Then just stopped eating and hung out in the rocks or back corner. Nothing had changed in the tank. I suspect it perished as I have not seen it for the last two days at all . That was a big bummer and an expensive failure. I rarely lose fish once I get them going for a month or more so the final one perishing was a complete surprise.
. That was a big bummer and an expensive failure. I rarely lose fish once I get them going for a month or more so the final one perishing was a complete surprise.
seahorsedreams
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Oh no.... I'm sorry to hear that. I'm going to split mine up when we much next week.
flying53brian
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slojmn
Sorry to hear that, as I know what a beautiful fish they are and once you think that they are going to ok to because they are eating well only to lose them.
Best regards
Sorry to hear that, as I know what a beautiful fish they are and once you think that they are going to ok to because they are eating well only to lose them.
Best regards
Sorry to hear this, Alicia.
FWIW, some friends and I were talking about this recently. I had a few anthias do the whole "I'm just going to sit here and not eat or swim and die" thing recently. Others have had the same experience. Seemingly perfectly healthy, established fish, just one day decide to stop swimming around, and just sit in the rocks or on the floor of the tank. Completely visually healthy, and without a single mark on them (no aggression from others) they will just sit there and eventually starve to death.
What was interesting in my case was that this time, 3 of the 5 specimens that did this "recovered". They began swimming around again after about a week or two. They eat a little, but act almost drunk, occasionally bumping into rocks and such. We'll see if they recover fully.
Is this some sort of anthias cold or flu? I am unsure...
FWIW, some friends and I were talking about this recently. I had a few anthias do the whole "I'm just going to sit here and not eat or swim and die" thing recently. Others have had the same experience. Seemingly perfectly healthy, established fish, just one day decide to stop swimming around, and just sit in the rocks or on the floor of the tank. Completely visually healthy, and without a single mark on them (no aggression from others) they will just sit there and eventually starve to death.
What was interesting in my case was that this time, 3 of the 5 specimens that did this "recovered". They began swimming around again after about a week or two. They eat a little, but act almost drunk, occasionally bumping into rocks and such. We'll see if they recover fully.
Is this some sort of anthias cold or flu? I am unsure...
Had this happen with my bicolor anthias not long ago. After 2+ years in my tank, out of nowhere, he just stopped swimming around and hung out in one corner of the tank, semi-vertically, pretty much all day and night. Would occasionally nip at some food, but not much. Then, after several weeks of this behavior, he seems to have mostly "recovered" - now eats with gusto and acts much more normally. Still likes to weirdly hang out semi-vertically in that one corner some, though. Bizarre.
I had this happen with a male-female pair of Bartletts I had. I had them in perfect health for well over 3 years. First the female displayed this and I lost her and now the male hides much of the day and is a faded pale pink color. He still feeds but other than that he hides most of the day. No marks on the body or anything. I wonder if this is some sort of parasite that eventually gets the upper hand or that these fish just have a more limited lifespan that other types of fish. It would seem that anthias are heavily subjected to being preyed upon in the wild and maybe their evolution is more focused on reproduction and keeping the species going rather than individual long life. Just a possible hypothesis for thought.
I wanted to add to my previous post that I have noticed from regularly viewing updates on well-known reefs online and on Youtube that there seems to attrition of anthias over time of maybe a year to two years. Without naming names, I'll view a reef tank with certain anthias spp. and then notice that those same anthias are no longer present the next time the aquarist shows an update of the tank sometimes only a few months later. I've heard of some anthias living maybe 5 years but it usually seems to be less. I'm curious to see if anybody has been able to maintain a group/harem for more than two years without significant attrition of individuals.
I, at least, am talking about something completely different than old age/attrition. This is an overnight change, to beautifully colored, fat, well established individuals; sometimes not even fully grown specimens.
I have lyretails that are over 3 years old. Only the male just recently died, and a female took his place.
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