My Dispar Anthias

[Triggerfish]

Added a trio on 9/21. were at LFS over 3 weeks. eating frozen.
hid for first day or so fully out day 3.
not sure of the sex ..all get along so far. I was amazed to see after about 10 days they were eating the Prime Reef flakes. \
feed them about 3x day.. they eat voraciously. pretty much stay in the top part of water column all day. previously I tried a trio of lyretails that didn't work out early on. so far great fish.

http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz7/triggers01/dispars_zps27f3a06d.jpg

[Sugar Magnolia]

Such beauties! Good luck with them!

[MIKE NY]

looks like the top one is a male and the other two are females...I never had much luck with larger ones like yours...I get them small and grow them out..Gl

[MHG]

They all look female but the one purple ish one may be turning male...I have a large male and they look nothing like the mail. They have a big spike protruding from the front of the dorsal fin, they are all purple...

[MHG]

Sorry, my bad, I was thinking lyretail. The male disbar has a big dorsal fin like a sail fish...

[MIKE NY]

MHG..Lyretails and a few other speices of Anthias the male changes color and grows the spike dorsel fin..but with many others it's just a color change...here is a pic of a pair of mine from a few years ago ..the male is on top an still got darker

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k83/MIKENY_2006/IMG_2472.jpg (http://s86.photobucket.com/user/MIKENY_2006/media/IMG_2472.jpg.html)

[Triggerfish]

they all look pretty much the same. i think the bottom two look lighter due to the light reflecting off of them. with the lyretails i had there was one that was more purple and did have teh elongated dorsal.
so i dont know with these yet. i'll work on getting a better pic.

[MHG]

here is a pic of how my male looked.... I never saw the dorsal like that on my females....

[MIKE NY]

beautiful fish!..if I can only get my male to get that coloration and those elongated pelvic fins..

[TankStudy]

Its all about patience ;) I've converted many females in many anthias species to males and its always an interesting thing to watch.

[Triggerfish]

so far so good, but one does appear to be staying on the smaller side.
thinking of adding couple more when upgrade is done.

[Triggerfish]

one went missing in my tank transfer over the weekend. no idea where the heck it could be or went. confusing.