30g Schooling?

[happyvac]

Is there anything that will school in a 30g?
I'm very inspired by this Japanese tank. It's somewhere around 150g, but I'm trying to recreate it (square-ish format) in a smaller tank. (pretty badly cropped, sorry)

 

[bbuck_camelback]

chromis are good schooling fish, you could probably do 5-6 chromis in a 30 gallon

 

[happyvac]

5-6? That seems like quite a lot.
Of course, I'd love to have 5 Blue-Green Reef chromis cruising around.
Any other opinions?

 

[maxalmon]

Thats one cool looking tank in the photo.

 

[bbuck_camelback]

alot of it depends on what you already have in the tank, if you already have several fish in a 30 gallon then don`t add a school of chromis

 

[treybom]

maybe a small school of....?? clowns?

 

[happyvac]

Originally Posted by treybom
maybe a small school of....?? clowns?

Um...what?
Chromis will be my only fish.

 

[surfinusa]

thats a cool fish tank

 

[emunson]

I like the way the tank is set up please let us all know what you put in it. :happyfish :happyfish

 

[happyvac]

I haven't even bought it yet...I'm asking about schooling.

 

[fedukeford]

chromis would deff. be your best bet

 

[nereef]

i would also say chromis is your best bet. if: those were your only fish, good cleanup crew, lots of rock, it could probably handle the 5 blue green. what do you think of the blue reef chromis? they do get bigger.

 

[happyvac]

I like 'em, especially in atank like this.
I've heard that they get terretorrial as they age...validity to this rumor?

 

[nereef]

i've heard that too. i don't have any experiences with it though. i have heard that the aggresion is only to their own species.

 

[happyvac]

Kind of a side note:
I know the big corals are Dendros, but anyone know what the smaller white-ish ones are? They look like Waving Hands are something but I'm not sure.