Bartlett's Anthias

[rgun2515]

Anyone have Bartlett's Anthias in their Reef tanks? Any comments about them?

 

[figgy]

nyaquatics sells them the cheapest anywhere. I love them. The color is awesome and therer relationship with one another is fun to watch. They love there hiding spaces though. So make sure your tank is big enough with enough cover if your going to have more than 3

 

[rgun2515]

nyaquatics sells them the cheapest anywhere. I love them. The color is awesome and therer relationship with one another is fun to watch. They love there hiding spaces though. So make sure your tank is big enough with enough cover if your going to have more than 3

Tank is 125G with over 150lbs of live rock. I have read a little about them. Think it's big enough?

I PM'd mike with no responce yet. I don't hear from him by tomorrow, I will take a ride to CT in the morning. Want to check out Greenwich aquaria anyway..

 

[OctaviousMonk]

they are great fish, but need to be almost constantly eating and do much better in numbers so make sure to get 3. I had a single female I inherited that was too stressed by itself and would always hide during feeding times no matter what I tried.

 

[House of Laughter]

rudy, great fish choice but super hard to get them to eat - and when you do, the male eventually kills off all the famales anyway and you'll wind up with one male, one female OR just one male.

I bought 5 for my 180 and in a year and 1/2 had 2 - I bought 1 male 4 females. I paid $59.99 each at Absolutely fish way back when.

House

 

[rgun2515]

rudy, great fish choice but super hard to get them to eat - and when you do, the male eventually kills off all the famales anyway and you'll wind up with one male, one female OR just one male.

I bought 5 for my 180 and in a year and 1/2 had 2 - I bought 1 male 4 females. I paid $59.99 each at Absolutely fish way back when.

House

too bad... nice fish..

 

[ireefny]

I have my group for a short time, never had a problem with getting them to eat, its getting them to stop eating, anything that hits the water. I got them at a LFS here in the Island, but NYAquatics gets them frequently, just bad timing for me. they actually shoal with my dispars & red stripe anthias without any problems, about 15 anthias shoal, 1 Sunburst refuses to join the group.

 

[House of Laughter]

disbars, reds and bartlets are often collected together because they shoal together. It's hit or miss with getting them to eat - mostly miss though - research will show you this.

Ireef - mine ate the same way once they started eating. jhale took some nice pictures of them in the nov 2006 advanced aquarist tank of the month.

House

 

[ireefny]

TOF & JHale pix, can you give me the link... this is a must see :inlove: