Schooling fish

[Purpletang92]

Clowns will school especially if there is a large anemone. Tangs will school but you need a large tank.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I don’t believe anyone has asked- what size tank?

 

[pcon]

one that I have been hunting for is pseudomugil cyanodorsalis. I haven't found any available. but a potential small fish for reef tanks.

 

[nereefpat]

one that I have been hunting for is pseudomugil cyanodorsalis. I haven't found any available. but a potential small fish for reef tanks.

Freshwater or brackish, correct?

 

[pcon]

Literature and a number of posts here and elsewhere say they can go full salt to full fresh. Live in intertidal estuaries which sometimes end up hypersaline even.

 

[mort]

Literature and a number of posts here and elsewhere say they can go full salt to full fresh. Live in intertidal estuaries which sometimes end up hypersaline even.

I'd not personally heard of it before but am a fan of other pseudomugil rainbows and found some good info here www.seriouslyfish.com/species/pseudomugil-cyanodorsalis/

My experience with other members of the family echo's their summation that they need quiet tankmates, so I think they'd be a great focus for a dedicated a nano rather than the average reef.

 

[Doglips56]

I know this is an older thread but I’m looking into Stoplight Red Cardinalfish for a school. My DT is 125g with a total water volume of about 160. I only have a pair of clowns, one blue green chromis that hangs out with the clowns and a hippo tang currently. How many of these should I get if Istill wanted to add a lawnmower Benny and a fairy wrasse? I forgot I also have a small royal gamma in QT.

 

[Ef4life]

I’m having good luck with my blue green chromis. I have 6 of them in my 40b for about a year now, they are all well fed and happy and swim together all day long.

I will say that they each need to each have at least 2 places to hide/sleep in your rocks. And they need to be well fed they are swimmers and always out the in open water. I feed mine 3-4x a day. Autofeeder drops a small amount of pellets 2-3x a day and then a nice heavy meal of frozen every night.

 

[Doglips56]

I’m having good luck with my blue green chromis. I have 6 of them in my 40b for about a year now, they are all well fed and happy and swim together all day long.

I will say that they each need to each have at least 2 places to hide/sleep in your rocks. And they need to be well fed they are swimmers and always out the in open water. I feed mine 3-4x a day. Autofeeder drops a small amount of pellets 2-3x a day and then a nice heavy meal of frozen every night.

I bought 3 on the advice of lfs and 2 were dead in 3 days. I’ve had the remaining one for months and he/she “schools” with my 2 clowns

 

[Fishingandreefing]

Bangaii’s kill each other off until the are down to a pair

crossing fingers, i have 7 in my 120 since last year summer time. Love them kind of floating around