Help me decide which Anthias to get

Jersh

Jersh

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I plan on eventually getting 3-4 Anthias in my 180 gallon, and I have it narrowed down to 3 different species. I was thinking Lyretails, Dispars, or Ignitus.

What are your opinions on these 3 species?

Has anyone had any problems with their male Lyretails being bullies to other tank mates?
 
I have owned all three and any of the three should work for your tank. The lyretails are the most aggressive and largest of the three, which is why I do not like them (in case I decide to get more anthias of a different type in the future).

Personally, I see little difference between the dispars and ignitus. I had a large group of both and I really had to look closely to figure out which ones were which. So of the two, I would go with whichever one you have easier access to obtaining healthier specimens of.

Anthias may be shy in your tank for the first few days or perhaps weeks before they will come out and eat regularly. If you get healthy, fat specimens, they'll have a much better chance of surviving those critical first days.
 
I love my Fathead Anthias (Serranocirrhitus latus). I have 3 of them. They have great color and they handled QT very well. They don't eat pellet food however they love frozen foods.
 
Jersh,

I know u asked which one if those 3 but, have u considered a trio of bimaculatus. IMO, they are stunning! If u have already considered, I think lyretails are very cool.
 
I love my shoal (6) of Lyetail Anthias in my 320 g tank. They are fine IME, and not having any aggressive problem male to females or to other fish. None of my females ever have any wound or torn fins. The male nipped and chase the females but never cause any problem. Maybe because I have a large tank, and I do feed them a lot, but my smallest anthias is also a very fat anthias.
 
jadette said:
Personally, I see little difference between the dispars and ignitus. I had a large group of both and I really had to look closely to figure out which ones were which. So of the two, I would go with whichever one you have easier access to obtaining healthier specimens of.
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Yeah, I agree.

Bimacs are my personal favorite, though a large species like the square. Personally, I'd go Lyretails.
 
I like the idea of mixing Ignitus and Lyretail. How many of each should I add? Should I try to add them at the same time, or just plan on adding the Ignitus first?
 
have a trio of dispars and happy with them. they stay together and eat flakes.
imo least colorful of the species but whatever.
first and only try with lyretails didnt work out.
 
one never ate in quarantine and died in DT shortly after going in.
the other two, young male and what i thought was a female was actually turning male and once i put them in the DT they started going at it and after 3 days the female was dead and shortly after for no apparent reason the male who appeared healthy died as well. pretty stupid waste of money on that experiment.
 
My favorite anthias is the Ventralis. The colours are absolutely amazing!
 

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I have both Dispar and Lyretails mixed in my 125G and they do wonderfully together. The dispar stay together and tend to hang out int he top part of the tank. The lyretails don't even shoal together really they disperse across the tank but have better color and are much larger than the dispar.

My male lyretail for some reason doesn't like my McCoskers Wrasse but doesn't even notice my Carpenter Wrasse. He is not overly aggressive just doesn't like him close by him(Will not share the same cave or hang out within about a foot of him.). he is not aggressive to any other fishes.
 
I love my single Yellow Breasted Male Lyretail Anthias (avatar). Only 1 I have at the moment. Very active, always out and is eating frozen, pellets and flakes.

I've had Lyretails over the many years as (1 male), (2 females), (1 male & 2 females) & my current (1 male). When I had more than 1, they seamed to stay in different areas.

My LFS has Lyretails more than the others and I've have success with them, so I've just stuck with them. Good luck with your decision.
 
Whystler said:
I have both Dispar and Lyretails mixed in my 125G and they do wonderfully together. The dispar stay together and tend to hang out int he top part of the tank. The lyretails don't even shoal together really they disperse across the tank but have better color and are much larger than the dispar.
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my 5 dispars stay pretty tight which i like. but yeah the lyretails have a bit more deeper color. but my male is coloring up pretty nicely.
 
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