Chalk Basslet school?

[PupChow]

Does any body have a school of chalk basslet? Would love to hear your experience and see some pictures! How do they compare to other schooling fish?

 

[MIKE NY]

tagging along...... I didn't think they would school . Mine has a bolt hole which it defends and rarely swims around the whole tank.

 

[dkle]

They don't school. They don't swim in the current like anthias either. They mostly hover the sandbed.

 

[SerranidTerror]

I have 3 chalk bass in my 40 gallon tank. They don't school per se but hover over my reef. Two seem to stay fairly close to one another while the third is usually a few inches away.

They are very nice fish that are extremely hardy and are always out and about. However if you do pick up a group of these guys you will seem squabling every now and then about the hierarchy of the group, which in my tank will usually consist of opening their mouth at each other and sometimes giving each other a light peck on the "lips"


Hope this helps

 

[PupChow]

Thanks guys! The chalk bass was recommanded by a couple threads as possible schooling fish, I guess that is not the case. Do you have any picture of them in your tank? I would like to see which section of the tank they hang out at...!

 

[mark97r6]

Pics would be great
I have fancied a small group of these for a while but you hardly ever come across them in the U.K.

How have you observed them behaving with small shrimps?

Cheers
Mark

 

[MIKE NY]

here's mine..it stays near the bottom and doesn't stray to far from its home.......

 

[SerranidTerror]

I don't have any pix of them at the moment but they usually cruise in the upper half of my 40 breeder. As far as behaving with shrimp I wouldn't know...I have a hamlet that likes to snack on them between meals...