Which anthias shoal best?

[davocean]

I absolutely love my lyretails, have had them a year now, 4 fem, 1 male.
Mine do tend to stay on one side of the tank, and do group up pretty often.
My green chromis will mix in w/ them as well, love it.
I do as Peter recommended to me, thaw mysis/cyclopseze in a cup and use a squirter to add food at my leisure through the course of the evening.
I usually feed flake or pellets first so other fish are less agro going for mysis.

 

[davocean]

Not my best pics, but shows typical grouping on mine.
For some reason in 2 seperate tanks I've had them in they mainly keep to the left side, but I did transfer my pillars similar, so maybe they kinda claim those pillars.

And they let this guy hang, not positive on ID yet on this guy(dispar?)

 

[Monkeyfish]

In a 180 do you think I could get away with a school of dispar and a school of lyretails?

 

[davocean]

^^ I'm pretty certain my little one is a Dispar(possibly ignitus) and I had 4 at first, they clung pretty tight to my lyretails.
Unfortunately 3 never ate, only this one, waiting for mature/positive ID before I get more, but to answer your question, should be no problem.

 

[Surfacer]

It seems many people like the dispars for shoaling but I ended up going with lyretails. 1 male and 3 females. I would like to add 2 more females so if there are arguments between them it may be more dispersed between them. I also think the look of more would be really cool but as of right now they are all together. I'll give it time and see how they really act.

 

[Surfacer]

In a 180 do you think I could get away with a school of dispar and a school of lyretails?

I am interested in this as well. I assume it would be ok and would be nice to have a variety of colorful fish but someone else with experience please enlighten me.

Never mind, I didn't see davocean's post. Thanks

 

[davocean]

Even though the other 3 dispars I had didn't eat(no idea why, or why this one did eat) all 4 shoaled w/ the lyretails just fine, and yes, looked great w/ that mix, and my green chromis in there to boot.
I plan to add more, hopefully they will see the one eat and copy.

 

[Crabber]

Does anyone have any videos of their anthias shoaling? A mix of dispar, lyretail and chromis must look stunning!

 

[REEF SMAC]

I have many Anthias in my tank. The (6)Dispars and the (8)Flame(Ignitus) are by far the best as far as shoaling together. They almost always swim together in one group. I have (6)Bartletts that will join in the group maybe 3 at a time but never all of them. I have (3)Lyrtails but never see them all together. I have (6)various other single species and they all pretty much keep to themselves. They do all swim together but only 3 times a day when the auto feeder goes off.