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So I take my girl to the per store and we pick out 5 damsel fish and 2 chromis (all very small < 3/4")… from the same tank and a new shipment. Given that I have 180 gallons in the main tank, 33 in the refugium a 40 gallon sump and I am skimming, that seems like a very reasonable amount of fish to start doesn’t it?
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I tend to agree. For all intents and purposes you should have been fine, but, and this is a big but, it has happened before. For that reason everyone advises caution. With 250 gallons of water, and a few little fish there should be no problem. It is a mystery to me. I did this on a smaller scale. I set up a 50 gallon tank some years ago, ran it through the cycle, and added fish one at a time. The fish all got horrible diseases and died (except for one, he died three years later) For that reason I advocate the six month idea, but in reality who can look at an empty tank for six months?
I would add however, that the Damsels should not have died, as people have used them to cycle tanks forever. There must have been something wrong with them when you bought them.
