introducing new fish

[ferocios31]

hey guys,
i just put a chromis into my tank two days ago and and it looks pretty healthy and swimming quite a bit. before this, i had an array of fish in my 25g tank that all pretty much died. i swapped out a bunch of things for my tank and now it seems to finally be effective enough to filter all the waste out. my question is, now that i see the chromis is good, when can i start introducing more fish into the tank? and how many can i put in at a time?

 

[btldreef]

At minimum you should be waiting 2 weeks between each livestock addition. How many chromis did you add? A 25G isn't that big and if you put in let's say 3-4 chromis, you really won't be able to add much more.
When adding fish, other than schooling fish such as chromis, cardinals and anthias, you should try to add only one at a time.
 
Do you have a quarantine tank or are you just dumping these guys in and hoping for the best? If this is the case, 1)) get a QT and 2) you need to wait longer between additions, but you really should see rule 1.
 
They haven't been in for that long, so "looking heatlhy" is not a tell all at this point. What are your water parameters.

 

[flower]

 
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Originally Posted by BTLDreef http:///forum/thread/379895/introducing-new-fish#post_3303797
At minimum you should be waiting 2 weeks between each livestock addition. How many chromis did you add? A 25G isn't that big and if you put in let's say 3-4 chromis, you really won't be able to add much more.
When adding fish, other than schooling fish such as chromis, cardinals and anthias, you should try to add only one at a time.
 
Do you have a quarantine tank or are you just dumping these guys in and hoping for the best? If this is the case, 1)) get a QT and 2) you need to wait longer between additions, but you really should see rule 1.
 
They haven't been in for that long, so "looking heatlhy" is not a tell all at this point. What are your water parameters.

+1 on the QT
 
A QT can't hold that many..add one fish, wait 4 weeks to watch it and make sure it's healthy, when you tranfer it to the DT then add another to the QT