I want to hear about your experience about these fishes

[Fishingandreefing]

Hey reefers, so I am planing on stocking my 73g. Currently I have a 2” purple tang, small six line wrasse and a tiny goby.

I like the male Bartlett anthias which I am keeping one in my 120g with 3 female lyretail.

I want to keep 2-3 of the male Bartlett’s but I have heard bad experience about them.

Also, any successful story about keeping purple queen anthias? In a 2-3 group?

lastly, blueface tile goby. I think I posted before but is it aggressive and a deep sand bed a must?

 

[laverda]

Anthias are generally best kept one male with 2-3 females.

 

[jeffrey750750]

The purple queen anthias can be very difficult to feed. I had tried about ten different foods over a month and one by one they died on me. Leave those in the ocean imo

 

[Zionas]

People have kept the Starcki’s Tilefish successfully but yeah I don’t think they’re an easy fish to get feeding. Dartfish OTOH are hardy.

Purple Queen Anthias are reportedly quite difficult to feed and keep as well.

Bartlett’s are among the easiest Anthias as far as I know, not sure how 2 males would work out but yeah I think you can put up to 3 in a 73.

Purple Tang will eventually need to be rehomed to a larger tank.

 

[sdreef]

The purple queen anthias can be very difficult to feed. I had tried about ten different foods over a month and one by one they died on me. Leave those in the ocean imo

Agree they are very difficult to feed and sorry to hear about the losses. Was your experience that they didn't take any of the 10 foods, was it the frequency of feeding, or do you think something else? Thanks

 

[mattzang]

https://reefs.com/magazine/boldly-colored-beauties-the-tuka-anthias/

purple queen requirements seem rough

 

[Ketan]

Queen anthias is a no-go

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

The Bartlett's will all eventually turn male and pick each other off. I started with 1 male and 7 females and they all changed to males over the course of a year, and the most dominant killed the others off.

 

[jeffrey750750]

Agree they are very difficult to feed and sorry to hear about the losses. Was your experience that they didn't take any of the 10 foods, was it the frequency of feeding, or do you think something else? Thanks

I tried frozen mysis, brine, lrs reef frenzy, fish frenzy, herbivore frenzy, couple flakes, pellets, tig pods, 5280 pods. I know they need frequent feedings and I did for the month I had them and nothing. They were not interested at all

 

[Abhishek]

If you want anthias and want to avoid large common varieties like Bartlett , Lyretail , extremely difficult to keep like Tuka , Pascalus , Loris , Evansi .. you can look into a middle road like Randall’s or resplendents . They won’t be open swimmers and need much dimmer tank for them to feel comfortable but much easier to take care than the more difficult ones .
Color wise nice but the males develop beautiful colors !
Another variant is dispar - easy enough compared to Tuka varieties but not bully as Bartlett’s and similar .
This is my personal experience though .

I always suggest dispar or Randall’s to anyone who wants to avoid the aggressive large Anthias , a little challenging but not impossible like Tuka variants