Good beginner anthias?

[Stevenliu9]

Barlett's Anthias...aggressive eaters and do well.

Bartlett is the anthias I have had the most success of. Never had a problem getting them to eat, which is half the battle with any other anthias. Understanding how their social ranking work is the first step with aggressiveness. They are never aggressive to other fish in the tank. But you need one dominant male with a harem of females. The families will fight and form pecking order ranks while the male can and will pick on any female whenever he wants to show who's the "man". As long as you don't get more than one male you should be alright.

 

[Stevenliu9]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. What are you feeding your anthias? Any tips/tricks to getting eating prepared foods? What sort of diseases are they prone to?

I have no problem getting my Bartlett to eat from day 1. But again I get them from DD and they only sell fish when they are eating. I feed my fish 3X/day, once in the morning with a generous blast of frozen or flake, then place a Marine grazer for them to kill time for hours while I am at work, once when I come home from work around 5-6pm, then a light snack around 9pm before light dims out. All my fish are fat and happy.

 

[ca1ore]

I have five species of pseudoanthias in my tank. A trio of Bartlett (super male, sub male and female) and they eat anything. A quintet of Bimaculatus (super male, sub male and three females) and they eat almost anything, though not always pellets. A sextet of resplendents (all females since my male decided to beach himself on top of my overflow cover ) and they eat most frozen, but no pellets. A pair of Princess, both females, that are very picky, eating only brine and small ocean plankton. Last is a single evansi that eats like the princess. It's a real challenge to get the latter three enough to eat to maintain body weight. The princess are my favorite looking of the lot; though the bimacs are a close second.

Nest time I see good princess at my LFS, I'm going to get a few more.