Do your Chromis still school?

[paddyob]

Just wondering...

I want to put 5 chromis in my tank. I want to add them as they will move around a lot... and school.

I hear people say they stop schooling and why bother.
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If you CURRENTLY have chromis, are they still schooling?


Thanks

[Mike-fish]

Never really have schooled

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Mike-fish

Never really have schooled

Do you have an active tank? Some people say a more docile tank gives the fish no reason to school. So I hear.

[Mike-fish]

I wouldn't say my tank is docile but any aggression is never directed toward them. Tank mates are : powder blue tang, one spot fox face, copperband butterfly, cleaner wrasse, 2 clownfish, and 3chromis

[intarsiabox]

I had half a dozen of them when my 90 was set up. 2 or 3 of them would hang around each other from time to time but that was about it. My tank was pretty docile, nobody chased after anyone. I had a foxface, yellow tang, 2 clowns, royal gramma and a solaris wrasse in the tank.

[fixerupper]

I have had up to 13 chromis that always schooled. They moved in unison like it was an Olympic event. Now the remaining 9 (little suckers jump!) don't school in the same way. Sort of a loose unorganized formation if at all. The change happened right after I gave away my large monodactylis argentus. My guess is that they don't feel as threatened.

[jorjef]

I have six and always stay together as a loose group.

[windcoast reefs]

Started with 10, after 2 months they killed off each other. Now there is just one.

[kole]

I have 10 that are schooling but they have only been in the tank for 2 weeks.

[Douglas]

As they got bigger, they started to get agressive.