Schooling fish

[ejhurte]

What are good easy to care for schooling fish? I currently have a six line wrasse, a yellow tail damsel, a star fish, a banded shrimp and 2 clowns.

I am looking a add a pair of schooling fish and a watchman goby.

 

[BadOleRoss]

Chromis fish are pretty easy schooling fish but they recommend 4-5.

 

[Andrew]

Chromis will school in large numbers if the tank is large enough. Only problem with that is they start to kill the weaker of the pack and sooner or later you'll only be left with 1 or 2.

 

[shaunj]

CHROMIS! EASY annd NICE!

 

[reef_doug]

I have 6 chromis for over 9 months now. Haven't lost one yet.
But then again I have a very light fish count in a 180 until my next tank is set up.

Your Yellowtail damsel may be a problem down the road with future additions.

 

[drummereef]

Chromis can be hit or miss in my experience. You have a better chance of schooling in larger tanks.

 

[Shagsbeard]

You do realize two things:

A school of fish is numbered in the thousands.

Fish school to avoid predation, remove the predators and they stop the behaivor.

What you're really looking for is sociable fish... not really a school of the. Chromis are good, and cardinals are ok together. None of them are really schooling.

 

[shag26272]

I have 3 chromis in a 40 gallon and they have schooled since day 1

 

[uyenk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9760531#post9760531 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Andrew
Chromis will school in large numbers if the tank is large enough. Only problem with that is they start to kill the weaker of the pack and sooner or later you'll only be left with 1 or 2.

agree with andrew, i have 10 green chromis, i introduce them at the same time, then start at day3, they start to attack the weaker, one down one to go, now only 3 of them survive, and the habbit attack the weaker stopped. i also have 7 yellowtail chromis on the same tank, they have the same habbit. now only left 4 of it.

anyway chromis is great addition