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Has anyone had success keeping these? I think they're amazingly beautiful, but I heard they're notoriously hard to get to eat.
Could be said about a lot of fish and corals in our hobby sadly.Why do suppliers still sell them then? If that's the case then they need to stop.
How long did you have them?Mine were fine until they all jumped out...
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Mine lasted to about 6 months, eating very well and gobbling up food. Then they slowly one by one stopped eating. Could never figure out why... It was odd.Around 4 months, and they were eating just fine.
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Feed baby brine shrimp every half an hour. There is a good article from Matthew Wandell how he keep purple queen for long time.
Where did you guys get your tuka? I found local stores were selling anthias pascalus rather than tuka.
You happen to have a link to the article?
Yes sir.
https://reefs.com/magazine/boldly-colored-beauties-the-tuka-anthias/
I just bought 7 purple queens last week, 2 of them didn't make it. Rest 5 eat like pigs. Using my Apex and aqua lifter pump dose baby brine shrimp and other copepods every 15 mins to the refugium where I keep them. About to change to anther dosing pump since aqualifter clog very easily.
If you get a chance and think about it, post some updates on your progress with them!