What type of Anthias?

[Colinsta]

So I am in need of some advice. I have a 135 gallon tank with the following fish:
Blue throat trigger
Yellow tang
Yellow coris wrasse
Midas blenny
Purple firefish
Mystery wrasse
Bangaii cardinal
2 clowns
Carpenters flasher

I am wanting some type of anthias for my tank to round out the stocking. I am interested in the lyretail, bartletts, and the sunburst fathead anthias. I know the fatheads usually are one per tank and the others I can get a male and a couple females. So to the question. What anthias do y'all recommend and would adding them this late in stocking possibly put them at risk for being picked on? I already feed twice a day and am considering an auto feeder so I got their feeding needs taken care of.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Rea17]

I know lyretails are more common, but I really love mine. I have the Maldivan variety, a male and 3 females, and they are all active and gorgeous.

 

[RDtrack]

My favorite....Blotched Anthias. They usually come on the market once a year. If you watch you can get them somewhat reasonable. I have a pair. I kind of lucked out my LFS got one small one in one week and another small one the next week. They've been a pair ever since.

 

[ca1ore]

I have kept lots of different anthias and have settled on either lyretails or bartletts as the two species most likely to thrive longer-term in your tank. I have had success keeping a single male Squampinnis, and would love to try a resplenedent, but have not as of yet. I do think that anthias really need a big tank to do their best - my best success was in a 8'x3'x2' tank.

 

[Colinsta]

Thanks for all the replies. I have actually started looking into the carberryi anthias. Does anybody have any experience with those in a group of one male and a couple females? I'm looking into ordering from liveaquaria but they don't specify male of female.

 

[Sleepingtiger]

i have barletts and lyretail myself. they are feed nls pellets. i don't think its too late to add them and all depends on the demeanor of your current fish. most of my friends who have anthias have autofeeders, so that is definitely an option.

 

[namxas]

O. borbonius (blotched) are our faves, second would be lyretails. These tend to not pick each other off over time. We've kept a couple of other species that did just that.

 

[ReefKeeper64]

+1 for Lyrtails (African if you can find them). They have striking color patterns, they eat pellets and flake, and mine don't fight. They are easily the showoff's of my tank.