All that aside.
I have plenty of damsel and wrasse and surgeon and blenny etc
My chromis are the best behaved fish of all.
All reef animals have a mean streak, it's how they survive such a hostile
environment.
With plenty of room and territory to school around, chromis are peaceful eye
candy.
keeping them solo is kinda cruel and at the very least means ya miss out on
watching the school interact.
fish compat sure is confusing sometimes.....





"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
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Sometimes that works, and sometimes it doesn't.

Aint fish psychology fun :-)

I had a pair of clarky clowns. I decided to add a smaller one. Then there
was the bigger one, medium one, and the smaller one (just added). The
medium one did not like the smaller one at all, and was very agressive to
it. The bigger one (female) did not have any problem with the smaller one.
As time went on, the big one started liking the smaller one, and the
medium one was getting more and more agressive towards the smaller one,
then the bigger one started really liking the smaller one, and was chasing
the medium one away, and then eventualy killed the medium one, and paired
up with the smaller one.

I like blue fined damsels, they get big and dark dark blue. People that
have two of them in a tank will usually have problems with them picking on
each other, and the other tank mates, but often when they remove one of
them, everything is fine.

There are just so many factors that determine how well fish will get
along, including individual temperament.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Gill Passman wrote on 7/3/2007 2:19 PM:
I might be being simplistic here but why not replace the losses and
maintain the school as presumably they have already been factored into
the stocking equation? I can see how a solitary fish might turn on it's
tank mates. Obviously, introducing adult chromis into the mix might end
in tears with a potential competition to be alpha fish but surely there
wouldn't be so much of an issue with adding smaller fish into the school
that will naturally take their place at the bottom of the pecking order?