Let’s talk about the Blotched Anthias

[Jpicon]

Hello Everyone,

I want to talk about the Blotched Anthias also known as the borbonius Anthias.
I have had my female barb now for about a year.
My tank is mixed with Bartlett’s , well was as I am down to only two males left. Before introducing the borbonius Anthias I had 4 male Bartlett’s now I am down to 2 as they suddenly became aggressive when I put the female borbonius. This is where it starts to get interesting. I notice that the male Bartlett’s started to do a show in the tank. What I mean is fight but in a beautiful way but didn’t understand why until covid hit. This is just my theory. I have been working from home and watch my tank for most of the day now since I don’t have to be in the office. I notice that my borbonius has started to make room in the tank to spawn. The male Bartlett’s are fighting to the death over her. Now I could have taken them out and saved good amount of money but let it be as it’s pretty amazing to see. My question is can this be possible for borbonius and a Bartlett actually mate and produce eggs?
Any marine biologist in this forum?


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[Mrmr]

I’m not a marine biologist however I would tend to think it’s not likely to work. Hell, I had an anthias that seemed To think it could mate with a Midas blenny I had! My thoughts are this though: in the case of your fish, they are in the same subfamily (anthiinae) but they are from a different genus (odontanthias vs pseudanthias). In the case of other fish hybrids we have seen like Achilles x Goldrim hybrid tang, that share the same genus (Acanthurus) which will means their genetic makeup is much more similar than let’s say an achilles and a purple tang (zebrasoma) would be. Same with centropyge hybrid angelfish we’ve seen. That said, I don’t think it’s likely, but it could look pretty cool if it happens by some chance!


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[Jpicon]

Going to do a little documenting just because it has caught my attention. If it was to happen don’t think success rate would be high as I have mixed tank and they would eat the eggs.
It has definitely caught my attention. Hey you never know. Would be amazing!!!


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[Jpicon]

The reason I even brought it up was because today I saw them doing what clown fish do when they mate. They brush really fast among each other and they did that couple times I just wish I would have recorded it


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[mattyzang]

pretty sure anthias are pelagic spawners, what do you mean by making room to spawn?

 

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[Jpicon]

pretty sure anthias are pelagic spawners, what do you mean by making room to spawn?

I added a picture trying to get a better one once my lights ramp down but you can see them together


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