How Many Anthias to Add?

[Patrick Cox]

Hello,
I have a 100G reef that will be primarily an SPS tank. Dimensions are 48x24x20. Current fish are...

Percula Clownfish Pair
One Spot Fox Face
Yellow Assessor
Possum Wrasse

I am now going to add a school of Ignitus Anthias. My questions are...

1.How many should I add? Was thinking about 3-5.

2. Also, they have females and males so I was thinking about 2-4 small females and 1 medium male. Does this sound right?

The only other fish I might add to the tank would be a Kole or Bristletooth Tang later.

Thanks!

 

[ca1ore]

I always prefer to just add females and let them change as they will. Go with 5. Distributes aggression; plus likely not all of them will make it.

 

[Moort82]

Which species are you considering? as this can effected the size of the group. Some are rougher on each other than others. It may also effected the sex ratio (as mentioned above) for instance lyre tails do much better when you add a group of females and let one develop as males can be aggressive and you seem to get a calmer group this way.

 

[Patrick Cox]

Which species are you considering? as this can effected the size of the group. Some are rougher on each other than others. It may also effected the sex ratio (as mentioned above) for instance lyre tails do much better when you add a group of females and let one develop as males can be aggressive and you seem to get a calmer group this way.

Ignitus.