Stocky Anthias???
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IFbettas
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I got a couple of females about a year ago. They were full of internal parasites (which I unfortunately found out at home) and one of them wasted away over a couple months. I treated them with Prazipro several times and fed a few times each day. The one who survived was a great fish! She never attacked any of the other fish and was always the first one to come up at feeding time. Great personality as far as anthias go. Unfortunately, she passed away while I was on a 2 week vacation over Christmas this year. I don't know why or how she died because she was looking fine when I left.
I plan on getting some more of them in the future, and I want to get a male this time too. When I got the two females I was hoping one would turn male, but after two months they were still both female.
I plan on getting some more of them in the future, and I want to get a male this time too. When I got the two females I was hoping one would turn male, but after two months they were still both female.
IFbettas
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She was probably about 3 inches long and extremely fat at the time she died.
I just realized that I don't have any pictures of her except in some random tank shots. In this picture I hadn't had her for that long so she was still skinny. You can see how big she was compared to a large lyretail male. Sorry for the bad pic.
I just realized that I don't have any pictures of her except in some random tank shots. In this picture I hadn't had her for that long so she was still skinny. You can see how big she was compared to a large lyretail male. Sorry for the bad pic.
FlaReefDude
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mine is in my avatar... definitely my favorite fish. very active, not aggressive. i feed mine 3 times a day. i don't know if mine is a male or female tho...its got a pink/orange body with cream colored under belly and purple/white fins and two red dots the tail...beautiful fish.
I'd pick a much smaller anthias for a tank with those dims.
HOBrien
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Why do you say that? The tank would be 130gallons.
Ok maybe not a shoal but what about a trio?
HOBrien
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Thank you very much for the input
mjfaderway
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found them to be very hardy and easy to feed a lots more than any other anthias ive got
IFbettas
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The total amount of gallons doesn't matter, it's the layout of the space that will be problematic IMO. All of the anthias I have kept have used every inch of my 180 gallon tank swimming back and forth the entire 6 feet. I think that they would be too cramped in a tank that size.
As SDguy said, the fathead/sunburst anthias lives singly and doesn't swim very much, making it a good substitute.
