My Harem of Royal Gramma

[dswong01]

I purchased 5 Royal Gramma ( currently in qt) to establish a harem in my tank a week ago 1 died in
2 days into qt i dont think it was from killing one anothing. most likely probably from shipping stress. currently all rest getting along.hopefully only 1 will be a male as mature.

 

[dswong01]

pics of harem

 

[sfsuphysics]

Gotta say never heard of a harem of royal grammas

 

[Coral reefer]

Hope this works. Never seen it before.

 

[dswong01]

Keeping finger crossed

 

[thanh510]

This is cool. Good luck with the tank!


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[Apon]

good luck!

 

[Kremis]

Yea ive read about this on r2r, it can work. GL

 

[Corallus]

What's the goal? Breeding or just being able to observe the natural group behavior?

The Matt Wittenrich book has a nice writeup of breeding approaches for these. The more I think about it, the "pair" I had could have just been two that happened to get along.

 

[rygh]

Interesting, never heard of that before either.
There are not that many groups that work well in an aquarium.
Keep us up to date.

 

[rygh]

Any idea what the minimum number is, or is there one?
My experience with Chromis seems to be about 5. Above that, they do great. Below that, you quickly end up with 2 or 1.

 

[dswong01]

nice to see a group of fish in tank

 

[Coral reefer]

One of my very favorites. I’d really like to have a group of them, just never seen it and heard it’s not a good idea.
Guess like most things there are ways to do it. Small/young group that is together from early on makes sense.