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06-22-2006, 11:25 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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Anthias help
i just got me a new purple queen anthias yesterday.usually all the anthias in petstore are swimming around,but mine has been hiding.could she/he still be in shock or is that what these types of anthias do?
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06-22-2006, 11:41 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: River Falls, WI
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give it some time to adjust to the new tank, the fish is in a new habitat now
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06-22-2006, 11:46 AM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
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Anthias are tough to keep for the most part. it could take a while to acclimate to the tank and its owner. the most important thing is to make sure it eats.
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06-22-2006, 12:01 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Arizona
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how big is the tank?
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06-22-2006, 12:06 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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the tank is a 30gal. I read on the internet that a 25gal. is good for one. what type of things do anthias eat?
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06-22-2006, 12:17 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
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meaty, sometimes only live food.
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06-22-2006, 12:23 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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so would frozen mysis or live brine shrimp be good? |
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06-22-2006, 01:34 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Arizona
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IME anthias need a lot of room to swim and are often very unhappy in small tanks.
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06-22-2006, 06:16 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lantana Florida
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Anthis are schooling/shoaling fish. I had one in a 55 FOLR tank and it did not do well.
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06-22-2006, 08:05 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
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Location: Pittsboro, NC
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those are a little deeper water anthias than most of the others. if you have bright lights than it will take it a bit to get adjusted. Anthias need to be fed often, they have tiny stomachs. you might need to feed them with only half of your lights on or maybe with the tank lights off and the room lights on to lower the light levels in the tank to make them more comfortable.
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06-22-2006, 09:34 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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he has been coming out now out in the open, swimming around. i have been feeding flakes to the other fish but he doesnt eat the flakes.i am going to try frozen mysis shrimp and live brine and see what he goes for. |
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06-22-2006, 09:45 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Very nice fish but hard to keep can be very shy and love big swimming room,try anything live you can find to try to get him hitting food maybe some blender mush also and a few drops of garlic in the water prior to feeding,good luck beautiful fish.
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06-22-2006, 10:05 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: cleveland,GA
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can copepods be a good live food for them?
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06-23-2006, 08:23 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Maryland
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Purple Queens are the one of the hardest Anthias to keep. If they eat at all its usually only live foods like brine. It's sad they are collected at all.
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