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04-04-2006, 06:56 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 728
  |  Do Not Ever Ever Buy A Damsel!
So I decided to go ahead and buy my mandarin goby. Upon introduction to the tank, my hateful velvet damsel started harassing him immediately! :mad: :mad: :mad: I had to tear down half my tank just to fish the little sh** head out! Still took me like 30 minutes..... and my LFS wouldn't even give me a credit for him! I gave him to them anyways. So now my whole tank is PISSED at me and shriveled up. The only benefit from this 3 hour fiasco is that I was able to rearrange my rocks better, so it looks much nicer....to me anyways. We'll see how everything does now. Plus I gave my LFS my boring pagoda coral and got a six line wrasse instead. I'm just worried my anemone will move from where I put his rock. He'd be PERFECT there!  Cheers! _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | 
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04-04-2006, 07:05 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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Sorry to hear...I too had to give my damsels away when i started to reef my tank up _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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04-04-2006, 07:27 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kalispell, MT
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When I got my tank the LFS said"O get damsels they are great, hardy cheap, and not aggressive". They like to not be nice to anything that u put in the tank. _________ Senior Noob Setting my 75 back up soon Main SW Tank:
55gal, 70LBS of Tonga/LFSDIY, 50lbs LS, 1x250watt MH(20k), AquaC Remora Skimmer Live stock: Velvet Damsel, (12)Blue legged crab, lawnmower blenny, (1)cleaner shrimp, Yellow Tang, Featherduster CoralsRandom Zoo's(like 10), more zoo's,red mushrooms and hairy mushrooms, Sinularia | |
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04-04-2006, 07:52 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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The bad thing is that when someone get's in the hobby, they get the impression that they are friendly because they look harmless, but people end up learning the hard way by introducing one without educating him or herself.
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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04-04-2006, 08:07 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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but then again we cant say all damsels are bad...heck Clownfish are a type of damselfish  | |
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04-04-2006, 08:54 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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Well let this be a lesson to anyone thinking of getting a godforsaken damsel. JUST DON'T DO IT. Actually I honestly feel a little sad because I did have him for like...2+ years. He got HUGE! Oh well. At least maybe now my Royal Gramma will get braver.
About clowns being a damsel, I believe that because during this whole circus, when I was moving the anemone rock or if I even went close to it, my clown was attacking me! Yea, not fun either. Who says the anemone gives the clown protection? He was attacking something 1000 times his size!  | |
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04-05-2006, 06:31 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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One that I've never had a problem with is the blue with yellow tail damsel. That's not to say that they're all well behaved but I've never had one get very aggressive towards its tankmates, even when it's the first fish in the tank. | |
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04-05-2006, 06:41 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Indiana
Posts: 91
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I had blue/green chromis and they turned mean when I added other fish to my tank. I eventually ended up having to use a trap to catch them and return them to the lfs who didn't give me credit either........little damnsels.
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75 g Reef
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04-05-2006, 08:22 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Carpentersville, IL Age: 52
Posts: 874
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I've seen some very agressive clowns. Big Maroons can be a handfull.
That said, I still have 3 blue devils a blue and yellow tail and an ancient 4 stripe that I use for cycling new tanks. The 4 stripe is banned to the hospital tank to keep some bio load on it.
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300 Reef; 325LR, 1/2" sand bed in tank, 3" sand bed in 215 gal sump/refugium and Berliner PowerPro SS twin becket skimmer. 210 Reef; with 225 lbs of LR, 300 lb DSB, Large W/D and Jebo 520 skimmer modified to accept a becket. 90 RR FOWLR; tied into the 300's sump with a closed loop for extra circulation. 55 hospital. | |
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04-05-2006, 09:21 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: the valley, CA Age: 23
Posts: 127
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my little blue/green reef chromis(damsel) has behaved for over a year now. thankfully. the one i have a problem with is the six lined wrasse. he used to be nice but now kills camel shrimp and constantly bugs my mandarins
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50 gallon reef tank. coralife 36 in 96w 10,000 k/96w actinic/ lunar lights, 40lr, 4inches ls, RemoraAquaC skimmer, closed loop flow, refugium, oscellaris clown, bluegreen reef chromis, green mandarin,turbo snails/reef crabs, sand sifting stars, corals: blue striped mushrooms, toadstool mushroom,yellowgreen cup, purple gorgonian, greenblue pipe organ, favites brain, torch, frogspawn, sebae anemone.
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