my blue damsel is unusual?

[Anonymous]

hello all,
i'm sitting here drinking some coffee and smoking a few cigarettes in front of the tank. my blue damsel is systematicaly picking of pieces of CC in his mouth and moving them from the corner of the tank to the front center. ? . in what used to be 1/4 to 1/2 inch of CC, there is now a patch of bare acrylic on the bottom of tank approx 3inch square.

later

well, now the clarkii has chased the damsel off. but i saw the blue guy make at least a half a dozen passes. has anybody else observed this in their blue damsels?

po

 

[esmithiii]

Maybe he is burying a body of another fish he killed?

E

 

[lxstang]

I used to have a Humbug damsel that would pick up hermit crabs and swim across the tank and drop them off. It was the funniest thing to watch. I had to get rid of him. MEAN,MEAN fish!

 

[31-2c]

IME this is normal for blue damsels. They are a real pain. It sounds like you could use a bit more substrate as well. I would get rid of the damsel, eventuall it will pick on anything in the tank causing unneeded stress

 

[jiml77]

My yellow tail damsel moves gravel all the time. There are several bare spots right now, but no problems. Thats his only vice. Never picks on any other fish, just thinks he's a bull dozer. Been doing it forever.

 

[Colin Smith]

I've seen damsels do this as well.

I have a yellow tail that has picked a place in the live rock to sleep. About an hour or so before the lights go out he goes there and shakes his tail to blow out excess sand that the pistol shrimp has deposited during the day

. I was watching him last night and a couple of minutes before the lights went out he went to his sleeping spot. Uncanny.

--Colin

 

[Anonymous]

hehe.. i enjoyed those responses, thanks

i'll add another couple of handfuls of CC to the bare spots. my fiance doesn't want to get rid of the blue damsel 'cause she thinks it's cute. i can't complain because she also thinks the $300 worth of corals i want to order this month from Dr. Mac are cute too.

later,
po