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05-23-2008, 12:46 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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Well i have a midas blenny & a chalk goby in my tank at the mo, very nice, quite & peacefull, then i have the devil fish 1 yellow tailed blue damsel & 1 neon damsel, they are both at the mo 1 to 1& half inch, my question is, i would love to add a clown fish eventually or even a coral beauty, both maybe, am i going to have much trouble with the damsels, something tell's me i am? _________ Hardware-55G Rena Md,Filstar XP3 Filter, 200w Heater, 1xSeio 2, 1xKoralia 2, Lee's Medium Skimmer, 8x39watt T5 Fish-Yellow Tang, Coral Beauty, Midas Blenny, Clown, Chalk Goby Inverts-Snails, Hermits, Black Long Spine Sea Urchin, Blue Linika StarFish, Cleaner Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Feather Duster, Green Bubble Tip Anemone, Coral's-Green/Purple/Hairy Mushroom's, Xenia, Button, Green, Yellow Polyps, Toadstool Leather,Finger Leather, Purple tip Frogspawn.  | 
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05-23-2008, 12:48 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 29
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just make sure they're bigger than the damsels u should be alright. _________ 75gal hex, 2-40w T12 48", odyssea 48" 4x65w PC's w/ lunars, 50lbs LR, 80lbs LS, gold banded maroon clown, dog faced puffer, juvenile blue angel, 2 dominoes, 1-4 stripe damsel, yellow watchman gobie, lawnmower blenny, mano, purple chromis, striped grouper, mexican turbo, astrea and red foot snails, striped, red and blue legged hermit crabs, coral banded shrimp, white and purple bubble coral(very little), red and green mushrooms, orange gorgonian, candycane  Tanks, No Thanks. We Free Dive! | |
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05-23-2008, 01:40 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
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I had a male blue devil that was smaller than anything else and he picked on fish untill they died I would not keep them I had to go through a lot of trouble trying to trap mine when I realized my mistake you will never be able to add any peaceful fish the damsels will torture them. Mine cost me a lot of money before I made the move and got them out luckily my LFS took them back on credit.
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05-23-2008, 01:46 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
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I actually miss the damsels too very hearty, very active ,and nice blue color but absolute terrors to anyone and everything you add to the tank from now on they will bully the any clown you add (except maybe a large Maroon) and you will never be able to add a peaceful fish for example a Mandarin forget about it. Mine had actually ripped the entire tail off of my mandarin before I got it out the mandarin has since healed. | |
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05-23-2008, 01:52 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 29
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i got 4 damsels and a gbm clown, all over 2". prple chromis one of biggest fish in tank, he's 4"+, they've been together over a yr. since then i've added everything else in my sig. w/ no problems what so ever. luck of the draw i guess, but i don't have a blue devil ether. | |
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05-23-2008, 02:00 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Damsels, the spawn of the DEVIL! But as you can tell it is the luck of the draw! I have a three spot that lives very peacefully
alongside six line a GS Maroon clown.The really funny thing is Clowns are just damsels in disguise! _________ I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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05-23-2008, 02:06 PM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT Age: 28
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I have 2 yellow tail blue damsels, and they aren't as bad some of the others I read about. One bullied the yellow tang the first day it was added to the tank, but that was it. They never bothered any other fish, and the 2 damsels were also the first ones in the tank. Moving the LR around to create new territories does work. I just didn't do it when I added the yellow tang, and had only 1 day of fighting, that was it. They just need to establish their own pecking order in the tank, and let nature take its course. _________  | |
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05-23-2008, 05:54 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: alabama Age: 31
Posts: 658
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Omard is gonna jump on me for this, but imho, the only good damsel fish is a dead damsel fish, the are just out and out mean. Omard has had good luck with them, but the ones I had were a&& holes. | |
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