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08/20/2006, 09:14 PM
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Schooling fish
Like some ideas on schooling fish that I can look into. Everytime we go to the LFS and they have a school of coral cats I start wishing they would stay like that heh.
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08/21/2006, 11:35 AM
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most fish school to protect themselves (bigger profile) chromies might work
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08/21/2006, 12:00 PM
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So if everyday before and after work I scream like a fool and make faces at the tank the fish should start to school?
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08/21/2006, 12:21 PM
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I went out and bought 5 pj cardinals for them to school, they stood in a school for I think 2 days. Now, 5 months later they don't even stay any where near each other and having bigger or agressive fish dosen't work. I have a sailfin tang, purple tang, and blue throat trigger. I think I'm going to try anthias.
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#7
08/21/2006, 12:31 PM
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What you have to have to keep chromides schooling is a blue velvet damsel, otherwise known as 'devil fish'. Terror is a real convincer...
I had one. Mine schooled and got under cover well before dark... Seriously, our tanks aren't big enough, but if you want a busy fish with high color, get a single chromis. He'll be so active you'll think there are three of him, and as only the dominant in the school is usually high color, you do get the high color.
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#8
08/21/2006, 04:27 PM
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Good to know.
/crosses another want off the list |
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#9
08/21/2006, 05:41 PM
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stop saying chromises won't school and will kill each other. look in my gallery. 10 chromis over a year no other dominant fish no aggression to cause damage and the only time the school breaks up is if they are startled or feeding. it's only a 75g.
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08/21/2006, 07:42 PM
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08/22/2006, 04:20 PM
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my experience is that you are lucky that the ch. stay tight...they usually begin to feel safe and no longer feel the need to school...that's my exp
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#12
08/22/2006, 04:26 PM
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Look for chalk bass, they school like anthias and are less sensitive.
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#13
08/22/2006, 09:33 PM
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most cardinals will school for a long long time. The waikiki aquarium has about 3 dozen in a 500 gallon display and they are constantly all together tightly packed (a lot are pregnant too) There are no fish in there that may cause harm to them either... I think they are glass cardinals (or blue-eyed... the see through ones
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