Purple Queen Anthias

[dnsfpl]

she put on weight after 2 weeks inside my tank
i feed 5 times day, weekend up to 7 times if i am at home
nevertheless, i will still to 1 purple queen, and hoping it will morph into male form

thanks

 

[mdrc]

you can defanitly give them what they need. and ya with some time it should change.

 

[lombard0]

I'm not really good in properly IDing fishes but I assumed what I got before were a pair of purple queen (p. pascula) anthias (or P. Tuka). As what others said, they really are difficult to get them to eat prepared food. Knowing this, I made sure that my 375gal tank has enough live food for them. My tank was skimmerless back then, and it only relied on mostly biological filtration (DSB on the display tank, cryptic zone, macroalga, and lots and lots of LRs). They are the first fish inhabitants in my display tank about 3 months after cycling. At first, I pour different types of frozen food in the display tank, I think about 5 times a day, and for a couple of weeks, they just ignore it. But I see them very active a couple of minutes after lights out. They liked to swim against the current and snap live food (I assumed they are pods or some sort) like crazy. It really mesmerizes me when I see them do that. After about a month, one of them started to accept the frozen food (finely chopped shrimp soaked with garlic and vitamins) that I've been dumping. Later on, the other one started to accept ONLY Ocean Nutrition pellets. That gave me the dilemma, because whenever I need to feed the tank, I have to offer both frozen food and ON pellets simultaneously just for these guys. For more than a year, their food preference didn't change. Sadly to say, I lost both of them when my tank got hit by some internal bacterial disease outbreak. I managed to move them to a QT tank but they never eat.

But the trouble and the effort in keeping them is well worth it, even though for just such a short period of time. One of the most gorgeous anthias I ever have.


Cheers!