Lyretails?
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bigdee65
Premium Member
Your top pic in your last post are female Lyretails, not sure about the bottom ones though.
Here are my female Lyretails, exactly the same as the ones you posted (color is a little different but they have the same markings):
Here is the male lygretail, notice they have spots on their fins:
You can get a harem of the females and one should turn into a male for you.
Here are my female Lyretails, exactly the same as the ones you posted (color is a little different but they have the same markings):
Here is the male lygretail, notice they have spots on their fins:
You can get a harem of the females and one should turn into a male for you.
Amphiprion
Premium Member
Those are evansi. As far as P. pleurotaenia females go, it is hard to tell from that pic. They, unlike squamipinnis, have two rows of purplish stripes and a slightly longer dorsal ray. Squamipinnis has a bluish bar under the eye, usually no continuing stripes.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6950949#post6950949 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NexDog
So to clarify, you think this is the Lyretail female?
Just that they have this listed as the female of the squareback type. If this is wrong I would be suprised. They have these Evansi's listed as Bartletts:
no that top picture is a female square box for sure. I had a bunch for years. Look in my gallery there should be some pictures. They get very large
ThunderousTalon
New member
their colors dont wash out due to lighting, but to improper diet and feeding. add spirulina powder to any and all food and you'll have no problems w/ colors and they are getting a good supplement. i have a pair of sunbursts, that have gotten significantly brighter over the years i've had em. and i have them under xm10k 250's, they are out and about as much as any other fish i own, except when my hands enter the tank.
YoungReefer06
New member
I would got with the lyretails. I have 2 male and 6 females in my tank. I have had them for like a year and they are doing great!
Kyle
Kyle
I would like Lyretails but my choice seems limited to the Anthias on this page:
http://natyu.ne.jp/fish/sakana05.html
I'd be interested in getting firm IDs on the bottom two please!
http://natyu.ne.jp/fish/sakana05.html
I'd be interested in getting firm IDs on the bottom two please!
bigdee65
Premium Member
The last photo looks to me like female Lytretails. They have the stripe behind their eye that only goes a short distance and the purple color behind each eye.
The second to last photo looks to be Pale-Bar Anthias (Pseudanthias engelhardi). Never had any experience with them so I am of little help there.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6958607#post6958607 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NexDog
If these really are Lyretail females I could get 5 and one would turn male?
ok sorry not to be rude but this is the last time and with pictures
femal sqaurebox (not lyretail)
Male Sqaurebox
Female in the middle of changing to male! see the box starting
middle of change
You said this was teh female square:
This is listed as a different fish:
All here:
http://natyu.ne.jp/fish/sakana05.html
I'm so confused.
This is listed as a different fish:
All here:
http://natyu.ne.jp/fish/sakana05.html
I'm so confused.
hard to tell
hard to tell
it is hard to tell in that picture is they are different fish. The pink over the eye may lead me to believe they are. The problem is the first shot of that squarebox female doesn't show the color well
BTW: you could do a nice school of squarebox in a tank your size. My school of four lasted 6 years or so. They do not fade in color with halides as I have about 2000 watts and their colors were always amazing. They do get huge though.
good luck
hard to tell
it is hard to tell in that picture is they are different fish. The pink over the eye may lead me to believe they are. The problem is the first shot of that squarebox female doesn't show the color well
BTW: you could do a nice school of squarebox in a tank your size. My school of four lasted 6 years or so. They do not fade in color with halides as I have about 2000 watts and their colors were always amazing. They do get huge though.
good luck
