Which fish form schools in aquariums? Pictures would be great!

[mlove]

Like the title says... which smaller fish school up in your/anyone's aquarium. Pictures are encouraged!!!

 

[inactive]

Very rare, except with Cardinals.

 

[condor]

blue/green chromis, cardinals, anthias, pink bar gobies, scissor tail gobies

 

[inactive]

Man, where the heck did my brain and sense of fish go.... forgot a lot haha.

Wait, pink bar gobies?

 

[condor]

Man, where the heck did my brain and sense of fish go.... forgot a lot haha.

Wait, pink bar gobies?

sure but it only tends to happen in smaller tanks, in larger tanks they get lost or somthing

 

[inactive]

I highly doubt they are actually schooling.

 

[bexi20]

How about firefish.

 

[agent462]

Most won't school but they will shoal. I've got 10 fiji blue/green chromis.

 

[edwing206]

Exactly. Most fish available in the aquarium trade won't school, but rather shoal. Many cardinals will shoal, as well as anthias. Some people have luck with blue/green chromis but that wasn't the case with me. I bought about 5 of them and they whittled down to a single fish over the course of a couple months. I REALLY like the look of a group of longspine cardinalfish.
Saltwater Aquarium Fish for Marine Aquariums: Longspine Cardinalfish

Most won't school but they will shoal. I've got 10 fiji blue/green chromis.

 

[Troylee]

+1 on the shoal no schools... I bought 10 chromis and ended up with 5 that have been together now for about a year And a half... I really want some anthias...

 

[ddiver]

The age old question.....cardinals ime are the best "schoolers", longspines to be exact.

 

[jaytizzle]

Yep... Apogon leptacanthus. Make sure you buy a BUNCH of them from the start though. You can't add more of them down the road without severe casualties. Do about 1.5 times the final amount that you ideally want.

 

[TANKSALOT]

I saw a very large tank with about 40 to 50 Yellow Tangs in it.
It may not have been a school of them, but was very impressive.

TANKSALOT
aka - Steve

 

[Triggerman77]

Anthias I loved my 4 females and one male Lyertail they hung tight

 

[foxyb]

I have 9 oranges lined cardnals and 4 Bartletts anthias in my tank, the leopard will flash at them when they spread out in the tank. In general Schooling is a survival tactic that is discarded once estabished in our tanks.

 

[FishLipz]

Resplendant Anthias. I had a group of 5 in my 120. I wish I had a bigger display for a bigger group. They're really beautiful.