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Old 09-13-2009, 06:29 PM   #1
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Best schooling fish?


What would be the best schooling fish for a 31 x 31 x 22 cube?
I was thinking about:
5-12 orange lined cardinalfish (Apogon cyanosoma)
5-12 Longspine Cardinalfish (Apogon leptacanthus)
4 dispar anthias (Pseudanthias dispar)
5-12 green chromis (Chromis viridis)
Which one would be the best and what amount? Some people say that some only school at night or when there's activity in the tank. What if I added a semi-aggressive fish like a sunrise pseudochromis? whould that cause them to school?
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:45 PM   #2
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What would be the best schooling fish for a 31 x 31 x 22 cube? You won't find any true shoaling fish in a tank that small. Really you need about a 600 gallon tank with a predator to get them to truly shoal. So really you are looking for a peaceful fish that groups well?
I was thinking about:
5-12 orange lined cardinalfish (Apogon cyanosoma)-No good. You will need to order about 60 of them to have 5-12 survive the shipping process. They are very poor shippers.
5-12 Longspine Cardinalfish (Apogon leptacanthus)- About the same as the previous
4 dispar anthias (Pseudanthias dispar)- I like them, but they need frequent feeding. I have lyertails and love them.
5-12 green chromis (Chromis viridis)-A popular choice, but I think they are boring after a while and often times they systematically kill one another until you have only 2-3 left.
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Old 09-13-2009, 07:19 PM   #3
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^ thanks, I think I'll go with the anthias, I have a auto feeder and I hand feed frozen food every day, so the feeding shouldn't be a problem. How many should I add?
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