Quote Originally Posted by d3rryc View Post
The main reason I've seen for not QT'ing anthias is b/c it's hard to get them enough food during the day. My wife is usually at home during the day, and she was giving them "lunch" for me, getting us around the food issue. I just shudder to think what would have happened if these guys had been in the DT instead.

What are the other reasons against putting anthias in QT?
Never understood it to be about the frequency of feeding. The assumption is that if you are going to keep anthias, you need to be able to provide frequent feedings.

Bob Fenner and wetwebmedia go into great detail discussing the reasons and the logic behind not quaranting this type of fish, which I could really not do justice without going back and researching to find the threads and then re-reading them, trying to summarize them. Definitely worth the time and effort to read if you intend to keep anthias. The upshot has to do with how timid the anthias can be and their need for good hiding places, which a quarantine tank does not typically provide, and the absence of good hiding places causing such signficant stress to them as to threaten their chances of survival. There IS an issue with feeding as well, in that they sometimes don't seem to understand what they should be eating in captivity and only seem to get the hang of it after observing other fish eat. There is more to the explanation but that is some of the basic logic.

Research it. And check for Live Aquaria's specials. They put them on sale every few weeks for a really good price.