Pomacentrus smithi (smith's damsel) need info

[mntl]

This looks to be a common fish, I have never seen one in person. Here is some info. My question is, who has had these in their tanks, and when it says small groups is this 3-5 or more? The coloring is very subtle in the picture but this looks like it could potentially be a good small group fish for a small tank. What scrares me is it says "small groups" and this is a damsel, which tends to not mix well. Does anyone have one (or hopefully more) of these and if so what are its habits? Does it hide, stay in the rock, swim in the open, scare easily? Does it look like the picture in person?

Any "hands on" experience or info would be greatly appreciated.

-John-

 

[Angel*Fish]

Pomacentrus damsels tend to be less aggressive than Chrysipterus or Dacsylus(sp?) In general you can think of them kind of more like Chromis - but I've never seen the one in the photo, cool looking picure

 

[mntl]

Thanks for a response!

All of the wild pictures of them I been able to find, they are in packs in or around acros. They are subtle but I think would be neat in a pack of 5 or so. I have not found much on them in captivity though beyond the link I posted.

Anyone else with experience with these fish?

 

[Angel*Fish]

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10279 Just in case you haven't found this

 

[ITFishGuy]

I know this post was made ages ago, but if I could get mine to hold still for a minute in my 55 I'd upload a pic. I have one with a green chromis. They use to be in a 10 gallon with some LR and the GC was a bit aggressive, when I got the smithi it was very small. In the 55 things evened out, but the smithi is a pit pushy now as it was the first fish introduced. They get along just fine. The color was different so that's why I got it, that and it was the smallest fish in the tank at the LFS, with other more aggressive damsels. Named it beaker due the the orange stripe that fades into white at the bottom.