Experience with firefish & purple firefish?

MikeP · #1 10-12-2007, 05:18 AM

The tank is my 190g reef. Lots of rock/caves etc. There is a LFS with one of each in a pretty small tank and he says they're fine. I just wanted to hear from other reefers too.

Ruth · #2 10-12-2007, 12:17 PM

I started out with 5 purple firefish (added at the same time) in my 110g cube (lots of live rock and caves etc for hiding). They were fine for about 6 months then started fighting amoungst themselves.
I now have only one left and he has been alone for about 8 months now.
I have found that as they mature they tend to get more territorial - also they are jumpers so as they do become aggressive they will chase the other fish right out of the tank.
Just my experience.

Snappy · #3 10-12-2007, 05:10 PM

Works best if you introduce them at the same time.

albert_dao · #4 10-12-2007, 05:23 PM

I don't really see the difference between keeping multiple firefish of the same species and multiples of different species. Either way, they're going to school when they're younger and fight when they're older.

Your best bet would be to, as Greg stated, introduce them all at once, but keeping in mind that you're probably only going to fit 1-3 firefish of any species into your tank.

justinl · #5 10-12-2007, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by albert_dao

I don't really see the difference between keeping multiple firefish of the same species and multiples of different species. Either way, they're going to school when they're younger and fight when they're older.

Yeah, they'd probablty school as yung uns, but Id almost say that adults of the same species would probably display more agrression towards each other, because the purple and red darts do look different (at least colour wise). just speculation.

albert_dao · #6 10-12-2007, 07:50 PM

They fight just the same IME.

tang daddy · #7 10-12-2007, 11:26 PM

I keep one of each in my 120 for quite a few months now, had 2 of the red ones but one decided to jump out when I was screwin with my tank. He survived for a month after that but haven't seen him for weeks and presume he's passed. They get along fine although I did hear the purple is more agressive! They swim about 5in away from each other and will criscross when feeding, also it's a good thing I got them on flakes.