Advice on SMALL YELLOW SCHOOLING fish

[Utubereefer]

@zoa what
Lots of good suggestions here. What are your thoughts?

 

[Duncan62]

Finishing off my livestock in my 6ft 180g zoa/paly/LPS dominated DT

I really need YELLOW In my tank and want a school of 3-5 peaceful schooling fish that are YELLOW that make the tank look fish-schooling-active.

Ideas on what kind should I be shopping for?

Anthias?
Damsels?
Cardinals?
Chromis?

Nothing that gets larger than 3ins and does NOT fade on yellow color when mature

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Lemon peel angle or yellow tang. No school but bright yellow active fish
I love damsels but they can be very bossy.

 

[Doctorgori]

Maybe..

Gold Lyretail Sailfin..

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Molly.

Are there yellow mollies?

There are a few breeds that are yellow or yellowish.
Here’s a gold panda molly fry:

I use mollies ( many are yellow) a lot as CUC in frag tanks or whatever, the don’t school in unison like neon tetras or whatever but the do congregate …
I’m not sure tho they will give you the effect you are looking for
… as mentioned IME Foxfaces do buddy up with someone, usually a tang … I’ve seen this every time I’ve owned one … maybe one foxface and a yellow tang?

 

[bro1123]

Midas blenny?

 

[IKD]

How about a small group of yellow coris wrasses? Per BlueZooAquaitcs

Yellow Coris Wrasses will tolerate being kept in small groups and can be housed with other docile species of fish like flasher wrasses, Firefish, leopard wrasses and small gobies. They may even clean other fishes. Yellow Coris Wrasses require sand as this is where they sleep and will hide when they are stressed or frightened.

 

[Sharkbait19]

I use mollies ( many are yellow) a lot as CUC in frag tanks or whatever, the don’t school in unison like neon tetras or whatever but the do congregate …
I’m not sure tho they will give you the effect you are looking for
… as mentioned IME Foxfaces do buddy up with someone, usually a tang … I’ve seen this every time I’ve owned one … maybe one foxface and a yellow tang?

True, they really only come together for feeding and breeding.
More of a dither than a schooler.

 

[1ocean]

yes I have a yellow coris wrasse in the 300. Put 10 pounds of dead sand in the far back corner of the tank, tank is bare bottom. Made the yellow and leopard wrasse their own little corner. Works great. Yellow wrasse adds color for sure like "IDK" mentioned. So now the coris, leopard and 5 firefish all sleep in the corner in the sand and under some rocks I used to border the sand.

 

[Unitylover]

glown gobies dont school, but they can help spice up your tank

 

[ZoWhat]

@zoa what
Lots of good suggestions here. What are your thoughts?

I know... lots of great ideas until I go Google shopping and everything is OUT OF STOCK.

Again, what I want:
* Fish that are yellow(ish) and can be kept as a group of 3-5
* they stay small, less than 3ins
* they don't fade out
* they don't become terrorists

Fish I'm NOT considering after seeing comments:
* damsels, they lose color and become terrorists
* wrasses, I'd have to invest in screening bc they jump and I don't know how to build screens

 

[rmorris_14]

True, they really only come together for feeding and breeding.
More of a dither than a schooler.

Sounds like my kind of relationship

 

[Timfish]

Sunshine chromis, Chromis insolata.

 

[Lyss]

Seale's cardinalfish, too -- says they develop into a beautiful lemon yellow as they mature: https://shop.thebiotagroup.com/collections/cultured-fish/products/seale-s

Looks like Biota also has the yellow cardinal listed on their web store. I guess the best you could do if you wanted them would be to reach out and see if they can give you an idea of when either might be back in stock.

 

[ZoWhat]

Here's what I got so far.

One thing I didn't mention was I have a pink tail trigger that's reef safe and a good fish (acts like a dog) BUT don't know what smaller fish he'd eat (?)

lemon damsel = turn brown, aggressive

yellow coris wrasse = not sure if you can have three (?), aggressive JUMPERS

yellow cardinals = maybe, would have to see one

yellow orange stripped cardinal = maybe, would have to see one

anthias = females more orange, not sure how active they swim around, seem to just hang in one spot

yellow mollies = maybe, would have to see one

Chromis blue spots vanderbilti = very interested but need to research more

Chromis black bar retrofasciata = very interested but need to research more

Yellow gobies = very interested but I do gave a pink tail trigger that might eat them (?)

Seals Cardinals = very interested but need to research more

Chromis acares = a tad dull on the upper part, would have to see them

 

[ZoWhat]

KEEP POSTING SUGGESTIONS!

 

[Unitylover]

lemon citron gobies grow to slightly larger than 3 inches, but they arent very active.

 

[Drummingbaker2010]

Finishing off my livestock in my 6ft 180g zoa/paly/LPS dominated DT

I really need YELLOW In my tank and want a school of 3-5 peaceful schooling fish that are YELLOW that make the tank look fish-schooling-active.

Ideas on what kind should I be shopping for?

Anthias?
Damsels?
Cardinals?
Chromis?

Nothing that gets larger than 3ins and does NOT fade on yellow color when mature

....

I have some Pajama cardinals, which look really cool, or Bengali cardinals are nice as well, and like to be grouped together.

 

[LegendaryCG]

While not schooling, a twin spot hogfish is very yellow and active. You can see mine in the left corner. Only get about 3 inches max.

 

[ZoWhat]

Leaning heavy on Chromis blackbars

 

[Tamberav]

Fun fact… a dottyback Manonichthys jamali mimics that chromis in the wild.

 

[IKD]

Leaning heavy on Chromis blackbars

Are these like other chromis that will go ‘Hunger Games’ and kill each off until only one remains?