purple queens shy?

[ryan]

my purple queen anthias refuse to come out from behind my rocks...

they have been in my tank for a week already...

i don't even know if they eat!

i just see them peeking out of the rocks occasionally...

so will adding a few more help? i have 3 in there now...

if i do add more, do i have to have to get the same species?

anyone else with the same problem?

thanks guys!

[roidan]

yeap..they are quite timid at times...they do best in groups...

make sure your water parameters do not stress them and then they will feed slowly...when one eats, the rest follows...

[ryan]

hey thanks guys!

will do that tomorrow...

btw how much do dispar's cost?

and should i buy more purple queen or more dispar?

oh and how many more?

thanks again!

[ryan]

i want to keep only anthias and some small gobys...

so i guess i should get them to start eating first before adding other fish right?

will adding a pair of firegobies stress them?

haha think i'm paranoid!

[FuEl]

Gobies wun stress them. I am keeping 2...been with me for 2 weeks already. I started mine on baby brine shrimp...they go crazy over it. After a while you can start weaning them onto cyclops. Now one of them takes mysis...yay!

[ryan]

hey thanks guys...

problem is i don't even know if they are eating!

haha...

will go buy some baby brine shrimps later...

you feed the frozen one right?

i'm too lazy to hatch lah...

[bwilly]

I got 4. after my ICT left 1.

timid fellow. mine is eating.

but I got to dump tons of mysis before it gobble

a few.. no fight (over food) with my damsels, clowns n YT.

[ryan]

ahhh....

ok then i won't add any fish that will compete with them for food...

but did yours eat mysis from the start or did you have to slowly change form brine shrimp or other food?

thanks bro...

[ryan]

AhhHH!

they came out today!!!

but then they saw me and went back into hiding...

sigh...

so sad...

now i don't even dare to go near the tank!

so they might just swim out for a while...

any one with some MORE suggestions?

[Achilles Tang]

Purple Queen Anthias do not last long as they are extremely fussy fish and require constant feeding.

Most experts agree its impossible to keep long term.

They usually starve to death in a few weeks.

You can try but you have to dedicate a tank with pristine water condition even after feeding lots of live food continuously.

Best food to feed is live BBS but they need to be enriched before feeding or the PQ anthia will lose weight even if its eating and then....

Don't recommend newbies to try purple queens.

Keeping PQ anthias alive fo a few weeks or a month and half is NOT success.

[ryan]

ohno!

does that mean my poor fish won't live?

sigh...

thanks anyway!

btw what do you enrich the baby brine with?

[Achilles Tang]

Freshly hatched BBS is full of protein and should be fed immediately.

After you keep them for a couple of days... you have to feed them with Selcon or live phytoplankton after they have developed their feeding apparatus before you feed the BBS to your anthias.

[ryan]

Freshly hatched BBS is full of protein and should be fed immediately.

After you keep them for a couple of days... you have to feed them with Selcon or live phytoplankton after they have developed their feeding apparatus before you feed the BBS to your anthias.

oh so its just the same rule as like feeding baby guppies...

BBS have to be fed within 24 of hatching...

i thought ment using frozen BBS...

oh thanks... will try hatching BBS again...