journeyman, you feed your fish squidd ? what does he feel about this?
i have an pink square anthias, but mine is quite the exception. As you stated, they are supposed to be peaceful community fish, well i believe mine is the more aggressive, and rarer female. i may be wrong, but i found was the common PSAs are males that are a bright barbie doll pink with a deep magenta square. well mine is a sherbert orange with a salmon pink square.
and the square is of late fading into oblivion - it almost invisible now, i think she is maturing - not sure of why.
but ever since i got her she thinks and IS the queen of the tank. she swims center stage and will rush the occasional fish for dominance. this action scared my purple firefish pair into hiding, killing one of them, and the other one spent the remainder of its like behind the rock work. she also recently killed my oldest and favorite fish, my 2 year old Yellow Coris, or canary wrasse. she chased him all the time, more and more, and one day he was behind the tank.
i lubbed that feesh
i never had a problem getting her to eat , and i only feed once a day , sometimes twice, sometimes not at all even. i think she was shy the first 3 days or so but she started to eat soon enough, after i left the room.
if i ever get another one, i would LOVE a fathead - or sunburst, they are soooo coool, i have only seen one person.
daisy - there are smaller species of anthias that i think would be fine in a 55g, just dont get a PSA , they are some of the biggest, getting to over 6"
here she is about 6 months ago, the square is almost gone now