Stocking suggestions for school

[Brenden]

Hey krish that is not your hand. That is a working hand in that pic.

 

[Krish]

LOL...I work very hard man! Don't mind the post count.(LOL) I'm very good at what I do and don't need to guess or waste time which gives me good RF time sometimes in the day after I've finished my work or in between overseeing things

 

[Scooterman]

That one little fish would destroy even the biggest fish you'd keep in a reef tank, that is how they grow so fast!

 

[Sk8r]

The deal with chromis [and most fish] is that they do not school well unless under threat. IE, if you have a nasty blue velvet damsel to rush about and nip stragglers, they will school everywhere.

Schooling is more of an 'us against it' response. If you want a pretty blue fish to flit back and forth, a single chromis will do it and leave everyone else alone.

Chromis will attack each other and reduce numbers until they're comfortable with their environment size. This, in a smaller tank, is about one, maybe 3. Seven, I fear, is going to see some attrition. I love them, but only the dominant tends to have the really high color, so one is probably the best answer, IMHO. It's what I have.

 

[shallowreef]

I would suggest the cardinal. They school together great and look cool IMO. I lost all of mine for some reason though. I was told that i may have had a aggressive male that killed them all. They did school together well though.

 

[steve-s]

Scoot, are you sure the 5" fish might not have been a marginated damsel? They can look identical to some chromis species except for size.

Cheers
Steve

 

[prow]

what about bar gobies. they really cool when they school. yeah these guys school dont just hang out togather.

 

[Scooterman]

Steve it was at the Dallas aquarium & labeled that way, so you may be correct, I read schooling chromis does tend to grow larger also. I think blue/green chromis can be easily confused.