Blue Reef Chromis (Chromis cyaneus)

[Myka]

Thanks for everyone's information!

Originally Posted by amoreira

They are not shoaling fish. They are solitary and territorial fish, just like any other damsel.

All the literature I have read, and all the pictures I have seen of them on reefs have been huge shoals. Most shoaling fish tend not to shoal very well in our small tanks though because we don't have room for enough of them, and we can't keep predators in our reefs to convince the fish they need to shoal. Hehe.

[sphelps]

I put four of these in a larger display once and they fought until only one survived. The remaining one was always aggressive towards newer fish but not too bad. They also got big and ugly fast turning almost completely black and around 3"-4" in only a couple months. I personally would never purchase these again.

These also use to be in the DT at Bayside which ended in similar results as far as I remember.

[Myka]

Argh...that's no good. No perfect fish is there?