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Old 11/01/2007, 01:57 AM
justinpsmith justinpsmith is offline
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I had to sell my chromis off but I had bought 3 and had all three for about a year and a half or maybe almost 2. I bought some very huge ones though. Maybe already close to 4" each. My LFS had them in a 100G for months with no problems before me. They were in a FOWLR tank with lots and lots of algae growth that they picked at (like mentioned above). They really never schooled together though. Followed each other sometimes but not much.

Actually I was just looking at some sites online saying that they reach only about 3.5 to 4" in the wild even, so I think mine must have been caught as older adults already. Maybe that makes a difference?

My LFS always seems to have these huge chromis in stock. They often have a tank of like hundreds of tiny ones and then a tank of 3-6 big ones along with a few huge anthias. They actually look really cool when they are so big!