Anthias shoal - any long term success?

[Manta]

Hi all, anybody ever kept an anthias shoal of about ten or more and sustained that number?

My plan is a male and 8 or 9 females in my 200g tanks, species wise I'd prefer taenitius, but due to availablity it will probably be lyretail/squamipinnis. All I've read and heard is that the group size decreases to an individual or two. Anyone know an aquarist who has acheived a stable shoal? What species was this?

tia
Lara

[Manta]

Anyone?

[tom obrecht]

I had kept numerous species of anthias in a 260 with numbers of 6-10 in each species. Roughly 40-45 anthias in total in the system. I had most of these fish for close to 2 years. Here's a pic at feeding time.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/TObrecht/DSCN5797.jpg

[nyvp]

I have 14 lyretails and 6 Carberryi all doing well no problem. buy all females and let them figure it out.



http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h310/nyvp/IMG_3231_edited.jpg

[dadonoflaw]

i have 5 lretails which is down from 9. i got all females and one of them took charge ver quickly becoming the male and began to shave down the ranks. good luck

[King-Kong]

Since my Bartletts were super jerks, and kept all changing to males, I got rid of them after a couple tries and over a year of patience..

Now I've got 7 "Dispars" (3 or so Ignitus snuck in).. we'll see how they do long term. Only been a few days!

[Manta]

Thanks for replies guys, gorgeous pics too. So it can be done then, well sometimes anyway............