我一直在印象宽大的印象（Pseudanthias ventralis）很难保留，因为它们通常被列为“仅专家”。我一直很喜欢这条鱼的外观，鉴于我的住所，贝鲁特，黎巴嫩，这是我的圣杯，以及找到牲畜尤其是异国情调的物种有多困难。
Then, a few years ago, a hotspot for Ventralis Anthias wasdiscovered in the Philippines可用性大大提高。根据保存腹膜和论坛上的假设的鱼类的主要饲养属性是：
- 非常害羞，需要平静的坦克友
- 喜欢昏暗的照明
- Should be kept at lower temperatures
- 应该不断喂食
- 挑剔的喂食器
I had to try and was waiting for my opportunity once the season for them started in May. I was in Singapore and a shipment was on its way to Iwarna Aquafram, so I ended up with 8 tiny ventralis anthias (around 3 cms) that arrived back to Beirut all safe and sound.
They were all placed in a unlit QT with dither juvenile mollies and the feeding trials were to begin. I always start with what I assume is the prominent food contender and in this case it was fish roe (which are nothing more than fish eggs). I also had a fallback option in case they were hard to feed which was artemia nauplii (baby brine shrimp) that would need 48hrs to be ready.
事实证明，这并不是必需的，因为他们与热情一起拿走了Roe，现在该开始新的东西了。Mysis是接下来的，他们采取了这一点，但并没有那么令人兴奋。然后我开始挤压准备好的冷冻食物混合物，他们很高兴地将其拿走。
This is when I began mixing different types of the smallest sizes of pellets along with the frozen foods (what I usually do here is thaw out the frozen food and then add on the pellets so that they soak up the juices and smells). They took to the pellets quite rapidly as well.
现在，在那段时间里，我开始每2-4天就以鱼速度丢失鱼。当他们积极进食时，我开始用铜和praziquantel进行预防治疗，但继续失去看上去像健康的鱼类的东西。
在QT结束时，一旦我感觉到鱼类喂养反应很好，治疗就完成了，我最终得到了三条鱼。他们被移至显示罐（主要由Guttatus Tang和卑鄙的女性运行“ Thiellei”小丑鱼). The three fish became two quite quickly and then I was left with only one! The remaining ventralis anthias was not one bit shy, it was out and about and mingling with the other fish, would come out to be feed whenever anyone stood by the tank, etc.
我很失望，因为我不喜欢将任何小鱼放在单打中，但很高兴我终于在展示厅里有一个现场ventralis，尽管以八比一的成功率持续了成功！当迪拜的BPK在9月进行预订时，还有另一个机会，我渴望有机会再努力建立那个ventralis集团，所以我继续进行了另外8个！
This time though the fish came in quite differently, they were larger, bulkier and looked fuller. Again, 8 arrived safe and sound in Beirut, and were acclimated to QT. It seems that the extra 4 months of growth in the wild did them good! I repeated the same procedure I did with the first batch and they took food with gusto without any issues.
治疗继续进行，但这次我最终生存了所有八条鱼。我将它们搬到了展示箱中，期望在介绍中会遇到一些损失，但是我有9个ventralis anthias在储罐中，进出岩石工作。他们一点也不害羞，似乎并不介意礁石照明或坦克伴侣。
Fast forward to a month later and I noticed some bickering in between them. They were acting like damsels and not anthias in terms of same interspecies aggressiveness, picking at each other whenever one passes next to the other. I had an almost daily habit of counting them and then noticed I was counting 8 instead of 9 and then 7 then 6!
这里发生了什么?为什么我现在失去鱼吗? I suspected the thiellei female clownfish was the culprit as they are known to be quite aggressive (like this one proved to be in QT, tail grabbing a wrasse!) I kept on watching them until I started noticing some jaw locking in between the ventralis. One of them even had a deformed locked jaw (that fish survived)!
It turned out that a social dominance was being established, and one of the females was turning male! That fish was going after the others in order to deter them from following suit. Once that fish fully turned aggression calmed down and I stopped losing fish.
I ended up with 6 fish, a male and a harem of 5. I suspect that had the tank been larger (display tank is a reefer 525XL), a higher survival rate would have been possible. Now though, each female has made a crevice its home and the male just hovers all over.
我还将水箱保持在23°C，但是找出这些温度是否足够低的唯一方法是等待它。鱼每天喂4次，2种珊瑚礁营养ROE的喂养，1个混合颗粒和薄片的喂养以及1次混合冷冻食品。坦克中的流动非常强，SP占据了主导地位，并且腹膜不介意。
总而言之，我希望本文是保持和享受ventralis anthias的额外经验，因为它已经变得比以前更具获取和可用的鱼类。这是一颗真正的海洋珠宝，成熟的成年男性宫颈anthias是可以看见的！
This article was written byRaed Mabsout我们感谢他的贡献，并分享了他将ventralis anthias在礁石环境中保持的经验。
