no luck with anthias

[Anonymous]

Good advice Goldstein.

 

[Anonymous]

Update:
The old female was still in my tank three days ago, hiding in the rockwork. Has not seen her since.

The new female is very aggressive. The new male is also hiding since day 3 due to the aggression. She won't let the male go near the food, and chase after him instead of eating the food herself. There are plenty of food. I suspect this is why the old female is hiding, but can't verify it. One of the first day when all three fishes are together (old and new female, and new male), they are all in the same area and seen to get along well. One good news is that the male seem to "recover" from the bladder problem.

 

[Anonymous]

Alright, I love these fishes.

However, with the constant harassments, I wonder if I should use the cichlid method? That is, buy additional fish so that the nasty female won't be able to target any specific tankmate?

Or it is one of the dumbest thing you ever heard since I will end up loosing more fish? Any comment/suggest? <flame suit on!>

 

[Anonymous]

Dupa wrote:

buy additional fish so that the nasty female won't be able to target any specific tankmate?

I think this method has some merit and may be worth trying. That is if you're tank can support the extra bio-load.

Yeah, more new fishes!

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

The bioload is very low in my tank. Mostly SPS, LPS and 3 or 4 fishes (2 or 3 anthias, and one mandarin fish). It is 150 gal.

 

[bleedingthought]

The bioload is very low in my tank. Mostly SPS, LPS and 3 or 4 fishes (2 or 3 anthias, and one mandarin fish). It is 150 gal.

I agree with Louey and would also give it a try! The problem is getting healthy fish to begin with, though. If you can get them healthy, shoot for 3 extra females.

 

[Anonymous]

Being a pessimist, I worried that now the male can get a bit or two while the female is busy chasing after her food, if I get more females, he may end up with 4 of them harassing him constantly.

I need a character sponsor for each of the females. Anyone confident enough to put their name with one?

 

[Anonymous]

Possibly in a case like this consider adding some robust dither fish. I'd avoid chromis - maybe some cardinals or a couple of the more mellow damsels - something in the Chrysiptera genus like a Starcki.

 

[Anonymous]

I used to have four cardinalfishes in there, and they all vanished right after I put these athias in. I suspect they have to do with the cardinalfish's disappearance. I will, however, look into it a little, but I doublt that I will put anything in there that is mellow or smaller than the athias.

 

[rbursek]

Since nothing seems to be working, try leaving all the lights off for a couple days, when I have had an aggresion problem with new fish I have done that and it seemed to work, plus it helps on any algae problems if in fact you have one.
Bob

 

[Anonymous]

The female is more active when light is off. These are deep water fishes, and they can see well without much illumination.

Or you suggest me to cover the tank with aluminum foil to make it completely dark?

 

[Anonymous]

No sign of the old female all week, so I assume she is dead.

The male, however, is more active. Yesterday, he is venturing out of the rockwork more frequently, and sometimes even swimming with the new female in close proximity. She once a while will try to nip him, but he just dash away and come right back. But during feeding time, she is still very protective of her food, even she can't eat them all.