Keeping Multiple Species of Pseudanthias

[Azedenkae]

Has anyone tried keeping multiple species of Pseudanthias together? Do they get along or... fight it out to the death (more so than the usual)?

 

[SDguy]

I had no issues mixing lyretails, dispar, and ignitus. I had problems with redstripes, tricolors, and bartletts being aggressive.

 

[Whystler]

I had no issues mixing lyretails, dispar, and ignitus. I had problems with redstripes, tricolors, and bartletts being aggressive.

My Lyretail and Dispar get along just fine and tend to shoal when the tangs start fighting and getting belligerent.

 

[Azedenkae]

Interesting... so at least lyretail and dispar seems to be cool together. :3

@SDguy: Do you have them all in at once, or at different times? How many of each species?

@Whystler: Similar to above. Did you have a number of them all at once?

 

[SDguy]

They were all together at once. At least 3 of each.

 

[ca1ore]

I currently have five bimacs and three bartletts in a 265. They seem to get along fine.

 

[mbauma]

I have 3 lyretails on the way from DD. What's a good food for them? How often do you feed them?

 

[ca1ore]

Conventional wisdom is 3 times daily. Most will take frozen, mysis, brine, anything meaty; a few will take pellets.

 

[hobbzz]

I have 8 lyretail, 2 dispar, and 1 sunburst. They all get along fine, although the male lyretail killed my original male dispar after getting out of qt and into the display. I would not recommend lyretail. The dominant female is changing and I can only imagine what will happen when she does. They eat everything including pellet. Tank is 300g.

 

[Azedenkae]

Cool, thanks guys for all the information! Very interesting. Definitely will keep all of this in mind.