Bartlett's Anthias OR Green Chromis SCHOOL??

[wt*jayjay]

I realllly want a school of 5-8 3-4'' fish running around my tank. I used to have 4 chromis in my old set up and loved how much more active to made the tank. Well i really want some Barletts Anthias too. First had planned on getting a school of chromis and a male/female trio of the barletts. welll now im thinking about scraping the chromis all together and just getting more anthias.. yes they are much pricier but not a big deal after what ive spent on the hobby...

what you guys think?

 

[schwaggs]

My group of 12 chromis did not school in my 210. Maybe it was my rockwork or the lack or predators/aggressive fish in my tank, IDK

 

[slinky]

Anthias 100%
used to have 8chromis, now 1. They kill each other

 

[ralph atl]

Chromis suck! Anthia (with careful research) yes!

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Pet peeve- the proper term is shoal, not school. The fish dont "school" in our aquariums.

Anyway, Anthias, in particular bartletts, can also get quite nasty with one another. Its not uncommon to end up with all males fighting to the death. Sadly, there arent too many fish that we can keep in big groups in big aquariums.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Pet peeve- the proper term is shoal, not school. The fish dont "school" in our aquariums.

Anyway, Anthias, in particular bartletts, can also get quite nasty with one another. Its not uncommon to end up with all males fighting to the death. Sadly, there arent too many fish that we can keep in big groups in big aquariums.

 

[wt*jayjay]

noiccee soo anthias it is then.. and yeah ive herd they are kinda like clowns when it comes to changing sex. like there may be a female thats bigger than the dominate male and she can change to be male and be the dominate one or somthing like that?

 

[wt*jayjay]

cool cool. only thing that stinks about females of most of the animal kingdom is that they arent near are colorful and pretty. but since i brought that up when anthias change sex do they change color?... wait dumb question im guessing thats the main way you can tell when they change lol

 

[jmaneyapanda]

***JayJay;538917 wrote: cool cool. only thing that stinks about females of most of the animal kingdom is that they arent near are colorful and pretty. but since i brought that up when anthias change sex do they change color?... wait dumb question im guessing thats the main way you can tell when they change lol

You have it backwards. Males are larger and a different color (typically), and the females are smaller. In certain species, the males and females are the same color. But the hierarchy is very complicated, but there are different stages to different sexes.

 

[wt*jayjay]

i wasnt backwards you goob, thats what i said^ lol

but yeah verry true. i like when you can tell an animals sex just by visual markings, it sets them apart from other species and have always been more appealing to me

 

[jmaneyapanda]

***JayJay;538892 wrote: noiccee soo anthias it is then.. and yeah ive herd they are kinda like clowns when it comes to changing sex. like there may be a female thats bigger than the dominate male and she can change to be male and be the dominate one or somthing like that?

Uh, no. You said the females are bigger. Theyre not. The males are.

 

[wt*jayjay]

ohhhh no no didnt mean it like that. i was just giving an example of why a female may change sex to male because that particular female may be very close to size or larger then the male so it changes sex and becomes "dominate". kinda like when you have two clowns pair up young the one that is bigger turns female

 

[enderg60]

I started out with 30 chromis, now I have 16(right at the buy 2x what you want rule). They tend to stay in groups of 4-6 most of the time and will gather durring feeding times and twilight. Im happy with the interaction, but I really like watching them all trying to find a spot to sleep in the corals right before the lights go off.

Im gonna add another 10 or 15 later along with 3 more lyretail anthias(for a total of 5) and 4 or 5 bartletts(or disbars, havent decided yet)

 

[raz0945]

Get both-I like the blue color of the chromis (they show up well in a reef) and the disbars anthias have a great personality. The male sends the females out to make sure the coast is clear then he comes out full steam ahead!