DaveR11
Well-Known Member
How often do you feed your fish? I failed with a pair of Anthias in the past, and when I was trying to figure out what I did wrong, I thought they needed feeding several times a day due to short guts or something like that.
Hi PCDS,
I've had my Anthias about 6 weeks now. Yes I had read the same that they need small feeds often.
When they were in quarantine I would feed them in the morning before I went to work and then again in the evening when I got home. The lights on the main tank come on later than the QT so now I give the display tank a small feed when I get home (flake or some bottled Mysis or pods). Then later I feed usually a mix of two small frozen cubes from (Mysis, Krill, algae, chopped mussel, lobster eggs, fish eggs). I try to vary it each night. This larger feed I add to the tank in stages over about an hour. Still early days so we will have to see if it works.
A couple of times a week I also feed pellets mainly for my pistol shrimps. The Anthias show no interest in the pellets, in fact only the yellow tang, the gobies, the shrimps, the Nassarius snails and the bristle worms seem to like the pellets. I also feed algae sheets for my tangs and angel, though the clowns and one of my leopard wrasses seem to love a bit of the greenery.
I also got Pseudanthias squamipinnis - Lyre-tailed Anthias which according to what I had read are meant to be the easiest species to keep.
Dave