Chromis - Green Chromis viridis

[Chin_Lee]

Please provide your experience in this poll:

• Use the top 9 poll questions if your fish has passed away.
• Use the bottom 7 poll questions if you currently own this fish.
• Multiple polls are allowed.
• Select the best answer to the best of your knowledge.
• Adding comments or elaborating on the cause of death in a post is encouraged.

The options are as follows:

died within 0-3 months
died within 4-6 months
died within 7-9 months
died within 10-12 months
died within 13-18 months
died within 19-24 months
died within 2-3 years
died within 3-4 years
died after 5 years +
currently alive 0-6 months
currently alive 7-12 months
currently alive over 1 year
currently alive over 2 years
currently alive over 3 years
currently alive over 4 years
currently alive 5 years +

[mike31154]

Purchased three of these of slightly different sizes. Shoaled nicely in the upper water column for a few months then started to go their separate ways. After a couple of months the largest & second largest started bullying the smallest who was unable to get sufficient food. The smallest finally disappeared and I never found the carcass. I presume he may have become a meal for my BTA.

The largest then started hanging out all day opposite my BTA and Maroon Clown pair. I was surprised that the clowns tolerated the proximity of the Chromis while vigorously defending the area from a Blue Devil Damsel. Anyhow, the large Chromis made this his home and #2 was left on his own banished to the surface area lest he be attacked by the Blue Devil. I figured he would be the next to go since he was beginning to show signs of starvation as well. Surprisingly it ended up being the largest one who met his demise next. Not sure how, but maybe Mama Clown finally took a run at him. All I know is I found the carcass partially eaten in the morning.

That left the second largest who seemed to have vision problems since he'd run at a piece of food and miss. Almost starved to death so I tried isolating him in a container to get some food into him. When I went on holidays, I had to release him back into the tank and figured he'd be gone when I got back. Again, surprisingly, he made it and was getting healthier. Just when I figured he was out of the woods, I found his partially devoured carcass in the clutches of a large white spotted hermit I have in the tank. Pretty sure 'herminator' didn't actually kill the guy but he's an opportunist and benefitted from the occasion. I suspect that he too may have fallen victim to Mama Maroon. As his health improved, I noticed him getting bolder and roaming around the tank more, down from the surface. So getting healthy may have cost him if he got too close to Maroon territory.

[sask]

I have 3 chromis that are all over 3 tears old. They have all done well since day1. They breed without fail at least every week. There is 1 male who has darker blue/green along his dorsal ant tail fins. he calls over 1 female, she lays a row of eggs and then he fertilizes them. Then he chases her of and calls over the other female and the whole thing continues for a few hours until there are probably close to 1000 eggs in total. I did put in a piece of glass with a magnet and they laid them on the glass. I moved the piece of glass to another tank and they did hatch but I didn't have what they needed to survive. I used rotifors and liquid phyto. Still fun to watch.