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Not sure if this should go here but, wanted to hear how the people who have them here feed their anthias. Been wanting a trio of waitei anthias and just a lil unsure o how to do it.
 
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Saw FJW is now selling the live feeds so could I feed live for a while and just wean them on frozen, flakes and pellets?
 
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not sure about those species. but my bartlett's anthias eats everything. frozen and dry.
 
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Waitei anthias are cool-looking. I have a school of 4 dispar and 1 ignitus. The dispar came in small and scrawny from a reputable online vendor. The only feed that I found they would eat with gusto was ReefNutrition ROE. Once I got them eating that, transitioning them onto Cyclops, Mysis and pellets was easy. (They only eat otohime-type pellets though, as does my 2.5-year-old Hawaiian cleaner wrasse).

The ROE was really very helpful.

I bought the single ignitus when one dispar managed to jump through a teeny gap in my netting and got fried by my halides. The ignitus gets beaten (lightly) a little bit more often than the other females by the male dispar, but she's getting fat and seems to be accepted by the other females. I do think that the ignitus is a little bit prettier than the dispar, although the dispar are lovely.

I like the dispar and ignitus because they keep a tight school formation, unlike squamipinnis and Bartletts. Squamipinnis and Bartlett's are a little beefier and hardier I think though. Bartlett's and Squampinnis seem to enjoy killing each other off slowly.
 
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rlpardue said:
Waitei anthias are cool-looking. I have a school of 4 dispar and 1 ignitus. The dispar came in small and scrawny from a reputable online vendor. The only feed that I found they would eat with gusto was ReefNutrition ROE. Once I got them eating that, transitioning them onto Cyclops, Mysis and pellets was easy. (They only eat otohime-type pellets though, as does my 2.5-year-old Hawaiian cleaner wrasse).

The ROE was really very helpful.

I bought the single ignitus when one dispar managed to jump through a teeny gap in my netting and got fried by my halides. The ignitus gets beaten (lightly) a little bit more often than the other females by the male dispar, but she's getting fat and seems to be accepted by the other females. I do think that the ignitus is a little bit prettier than the dispar, although the dispar are lovely.

I like the dispar and ignitus because they keep a tight school formation, unlike squamipinnis and Bartletts. Squamipinnis and Bartlett's are a little beefier and hardier I think though. Bartlett's and Squampinnis seem to enjoy killing each other off slowly.
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Im hoping to at least get a school of 5 or 3 in my 90. My understanding is thst not many people have kept these one before and the ones have, cant seem to keep them eating. Ive been looking into auto feeders for live or frozen foods so hopefully I can be different and say im one of the only people thst has kept Waiteis successfully.
 
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