Serious Problem With Tank/fish

[@ombomb]

Firstly the idea that they are there to "circulate the water"... you have never mentioned what filtration you have in the tank.

Secondly the tank is still in the very early stages, you've only just managed to get the water stats where they should be and straight away you chuck 3 fish in.

Thirdly Damsels will get more aggressive as they get older and less attractive.

 

[Aquascaper]

I have to add that 3 damsels in a 29g is going to severly limit what you can put in there as they now rule that tank and will attack anything else you put in there.
They will be fine together as Chromis like to be in a group but you have basically made a species only tank

 

[Navarre]

If you have chropmis then you should be ok but if they are damsels of any other description then you will have your work cut out later on

Glad to see that tank is turning a corner and making the right progress. Just take things slowly and dont rush things or you could undo all the good work done so far to get the tank on track.

 

[Narutofan]

I don't want any other kind of fish in there. Damsels like the chromis I have are small and a 30 gallon tank is perfect for 2 or 3 of them. Bigger fish and such are better suited for larger tanks. I can't think of what else would properly fit into a 30 gallon tank comfortably other than the smaller fish.

Also, Everyone I've talked to who had chromis damsels say that unlike other breeds of damsels, these are pretty calm and passive. many have other fish in their tanks with the damsels and the most they do is swim away from the other fish. They've never seen attacks.

In fact when I talked to the aquatics store person they said if you're looking to eventually have other fish in a tank, chromis damsels are the way to go as they're much less aggressive. The Damsels I had in my old tank use to kill eachother. So he said if you want a hardy yet passive fish, these were the way to go.

 

[Aquascaper]

The same LFS that said an SG of 1.014 is perfectly fine for marine fish

If you're happy with the Chromis then that's fine, I personally would have cycled the tank and made sure everything was settled well before adding any fish at all but maybe that's just me

 

[Narutofan]

The same LFS that said an SG of 1.014 is perfectly fine for marine fish

If you're happy with the Chromis then that's fine, I personally would have cycled the tank and made sure everything was settled well before adding any fish at all but maybe that's just me

You don't actually read my posts you just prefer to act all high and mighty. don't you? I mean every reply you've made has basically been "I'm better than you, you're an idiot" and then "Here's my adivce." I came here for advice not the crap.

Anyway I said I went to a DIFFERENT aquatics store than the one who said 1.014 was fine. if you actually read my posts before thinking of a way to jump all over me you'd have seen that.

and obviously things are going good because 3 days later the fish are still eating, swimming strong and most importantly, alive!

So I think the problems are finally solved. but I"m going to wait for a week before I say 100% for sure that everything is fine. but they've lived longer than the recent ones, so hopefully it was the salinity that was a problem.

(Plus I went to a different aquatics store who gave me viable advice that was about the same as I'm getting here.)

anyway. I found a great site that gives great advice from fish experts without the jumping all over a person crap. I've asked questions I thought may be dumb questions and they're really sweet about it so I'm heading over there and suggesting that site to everyone I know with fish, tanks and questions. I was going to come here and say thanks for the advice, but screw it. Who needs advice if its given in a round about rude "you're stupid" way? Try talking to people, maybe you can work on that issue of false self-grandity. thanks to everyone else for the advice though!