Pseudanthias squamipinnis Picture from June 2002 Lyretail Anthias Pseudanthias squamipinnis The Lyretail Anthias are my first attempt at an anthias species. I added six juveniles on June 29th, 2002. These are claimed to be very hardy fish. However in the first week of adding mine I had one MIA and one confirmed death. The remaining 4 are doing well. Three of the 4 are very agressive eaters. the last hides in the rocks and is not at all agressive towards eating. It comes out during feeding but does not actually eat as much as the others.

Pseudanthias squamipinnis Picture from June 2002 I wasn't able to get these fish to eat any off the shelf foods. They would attempt a strike but spit it out. I made a frozen slurry mix out of fresh table shrimp in a food processor, and then mixed in various frozen foods such as different plankton, nori, spirulina flake, vibra-grow, etc... and this mix they all attack with gusto and do not spit it out. The lyretail anthias is one of the most wide-ranging members of the subfamily Anthiinae. It ranges from the Red Sea and eastern Africa east to the Fijian Islands, north to Japan and south to New South Wales, Australia.