Pls id this anthia

[gtrigger]

Hi bro,

Pls id this anthia. Easy to keep?

Thanks.

[sunny03]

think they call it purple

[Achilles Tang]

Purple queen anthias, beautiful fishes.... extremely high chance you won't see them survive for more than 2 weeks. 3 weeks at the most.

Not recommended for marine tanks as even advanced aquarists will find it hard to feed them continuously throughout the day with enough food that they LIKE without crashing their tanks due to overfeeding and overloading their filtration system.

Even if you do all that, that is no guarantee because they are extremely fickle fishes and will choose to starve to death rather than eat whatever you throw at them.

They feed on zooplankton in the wild. Better left in the sea.

[Dispar_Anthias]

Purple queen anthias, beautiful fishes.... extremely high chance you won't see them survive for more than 2 weeks. 3 weeks at the most.

Not recommended for marine tanks as even advanced aquarists will find it hard to feed them continuously throughout the day with enough food that they LIKE without crashing their tanks due to overfeeding and overloading their filtration system.

Even if you do all that, that is no guarantee because they are extremely fickle fishes and will choose to starve to death rather than eat whatever you throw at them.

They feed on zooplankton in the wild. Better left in the sea.

yah boss is right.... But since you got it already, try wild caught frozen zooplankton, that will give you better chance of getting them to feed. Anyway yours a juvenile and is a pretty nice specimen.

I have one and is surviving for ard 2months feeding on zoos, and brine shrimp. They are very nice fish and cherish them pls.

[gtrigger]

Hi AT , DA;

Thanks for the advice.

[IanJ]

I bought 4, 1 never came out of the rocks, the other 3 took about a month or so before they started to feed.

About 2 months on they feed on frozen brine shrimp and look good. Time will tell, but a difficult fish and better the LFS leave them in the ocean.