Mixing Chromis

[Fishfreak2009]

Anyone else keep more than one kind of Chromis? My old setup had greens and bicolors, and an even older setup had greens and Caribbean blues. I have a shoal of 13 greens in my current tank (380 gallon) and I picked up 5 Vanderbilt Chromis today and introduced them into the quarantine! Hopefully they make a nice mixed group!

 

[Fishfreak2009]

 

[eatbreakfast]

I've found chromis can be broken down into those that like to shoal, and those that behave more liked amsels.

Those that like to shoal, such as Caribbean blue, blue/green, and vanderbilt, will all mix well.

The damsel-like behaving ones will also mix, but prefer to stay in the territory they stake out.

 

[PatW]

I scuba dive. In the Caribbean, I often see mixed schools of blue and brown chromis. I think you can probably mix and match chromis. Remember, chromis do tend to murder the weakest member of the school which can whittle down the numbers pretty quickly.