New Flavoguttatus Anthias

[flying53brian]

WETFISH.

ATI Powermodule (8x54) T5's and water temp is kept at 78 by a chiller. They don't seem to mind the bright lights although only the male is always out. The females tend to come out for food then back into the rocks.

 

[Kinetic]

There's a trio in Diver's Den. I'm considering picking them up, but need to remove 4 big blue/green chromis first.

Do you think they'd play nice with a bartlett and some other small unknown anthias that came in as a bartlett?

 

[flying53brian]

I believe they would be fine, I have 3 resplendid anthias right with them and they are fine. I have never had any Bartlett's though.

Thought about the ones on Divers Den but just can't make anymore room right now.

Good Luck

 

[SDguy]

I believe they would be fine, I have 3 resplendid anthias right with them and they are fine. I have never had any Bartlett's though.

Thought about the ones on Divers Den but just can't make anymore room right now.

Good Luck

So how many do you have now?

 

[Cultivatedcoral]

They are no longer on Divers Den. :clown:

 

[flying53brian]

I have just 3 right now, was going to buy 4 more from a local store but could not pick up right away and so they sold them. Sure wish I did though as they were a great price.

 

[All Delight]

flying53brian,

how big is your tank?

 

[All Delight]

I have 4 ignitus anthias, but I'm thinking of getting 4 flavos and get rid of the ignitus.

 

[moonpod]

I have 4 ignitus anthias, but I'm thinking of getting 4 flavos and get rid of the ignitus.

are there flavos around SoCal right now?

 

[namxas]

I have 4 ignitus anthias, but I'm thinking of getting 4 flavos and get rid of the ignitus.

IME, the flavoguttatus is one of those species that does fine for awhile, then all of a sudden, they go postal on each other until there's one left, which currently resides in our OSFF tank.

So yes, this fish is mild-mannered with other tankmates, but they'll beat the snot out of each other in fairly short order once the fireworks start.

Our borbonius trio is MUCH more tolerant of each other. In fact, now that the pecking order has been established, they pretty much leave it at that (we've had them well over two years now).

 

[All Delight]

are there flavos around SoCal right now?

Yes they are.

 

[All Delight]

IME, the flavoguttatus is one of those species that does fine for awhile, then all of a sudden, they go postal on each other until there's one left, which currently resides in our OSFF tank.

So yes, this fish is mild-mannered with other tankmates, but they'll beat the snot out of each other in fairly short order once the fireworks start.

Our borbonius trio is MUCH more tolerant of each other. In fact, now that the pecking order has been established, they pretty much leave it at that (we've had them well over two years now).

That's a bummer. The Flavos have been on my list for nearly a year now.

 

[namxas]

They're gorgeous. Ours did fine in their QT, but once they got into the DT (they were in our 50 gal SH setup, everything was fine for a few months, then, the two larger fish killed the smallest, and after that, they started on each other. The fish we have left is a model citizen, but the upper fluke of its tail will never grow back.

These fish are true beauties tho...

 

[All Delight]

namxas, do you think if you had a bigger tank it woulda helped?

 

[namxas]

Maybe...at least they could have had more room to stay away from each other. I've kept 4 species of anthias (we currently have 2 species), but have never had any that jumped each other like the flavs.

FWIW, the only non-anthias aggression I've seen was when the male borbonius decided it might like to be the BMOC in our small species scorp tank. It postured to the male dwarf fuzzy lion, but the lion showed it what its spines look like and it swam away, never to repeat the challenge.

 

[mystery_reef]

digging this up.
i lost my small female to jumping recently. still have the awesome male.
i was thinking about adding a borbonius? any thoughts on mixing these guys with other anthias? thanks.

 

[All Delight]

mystery reef,

I'm not sure if you would have a problem with mixing them with Barbonius. Barbonius get bigger than Flavos so that might be an issue.

I had my Flavos mixed with Ignitus and they were happy with each other.