looking for small schooling reef fish

[FF Rainwater]

have a 150g reef tank im just starting to stock and would like some small schooling fish...so far have a yellow tang, blue hippo tang, sailfin tang, yellow eye kole tang, 2 clownfish, an algae blenny and a sand sifting goby...any suggestions for a few more fish that will be ok with corals

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Chromis, chalk bass, anthias.

 

[natebedwell06]

chromis or anthias definately make a awesome display, i have 12 chromis in my 150 and they are awesome, always in a big school swimming around the tank

 

[MikeandNicole]

Friend of mine just picked up some seale's cardinals. They stay in a very tight group and max out around 3-4 inches.

 

[FF Rainwater]

someone told me when you add a school of fish you need to add an odd number of fish..is that just a myth?

 

[evsalty]

SLOW DOWN PLEASE. Your tank is 2 months old and you JUST added all 4 tangs on top of adding the first three fish in a three week period. You are already maxed out fish wise IMHO. But if you do still want to keep going PLEASE wait atleast 1 month before you add anymore fish.

 

[evsalty]

Take some time making sure that you can keep all of them fed well without adding to much waste to the tank. Your tank is young and may not be completely stable yet. Adding this much watse this soon could cause you to have some issues. Also since you did not QT these tangs it would be good to make sure that they do not break out with ich.

 

[thelizardkin]

bg Chromis will pick each other off i had 9 a month ago now i have 5

 

[WWodyz]

Small chromis = Cheaper

 

[29reef]

Chromis = bad choice for school/shoal.

 

[540iz4]

Anthias is nice.

 

[Higgy2010]

I have three ignitus anthias that shoal together nicely.

 

[BlueCorn]

Fish in the wild school, or shoal, for protection. Often, when the realize there isn't a predator, they stop. In the case of chromis, what you often end up with is a single dominant fish. I watched my school of 5, in my 180, slowly become a single fish.