Caught my damsel!!!

[Anonymous]

Just a post because I am proud of myself

Now other tank inhabiants can live in peace.

Method: Put a frozen block of Brine Shrimp in a net, and place the net in the flow of my return (like a wind sock). The damsel went nuts with the sent, and began to pull shrip out through the netting, eventually he got fed up with this and swam right into the net.

He has been returned to the LFS from which he came.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey, Thats GREAT I am going to try that soon. I had no idea how mean they were till I tried to put something pretty in.

 

[shawnz28]

Excellent, now only if mantis shrimp were that easy

 

[Anonymous]

Mantis shrimp are easy...
That is why they reproduce so well! :roll:

 

[Kevin1000]

Congrats! - I tried that but my damsel never went into the net. I finally purchased a large barnicle and the damsel adopted as his home - put net over the barnicle with fish in it - worked like a charm.

 

[kleinfreak]

Next time I'm gonna try to catch mine with Dynamite!

 

[Snorkel in my tank]

Nice one. last night I finally caught my mean little dottyback... he was the smallest fish in my tank and the meanest, he nipped at everyone's fins and ate every shrimp I put in the tank (that pissed my off)... I have anapasias so I am trying to add some peppermints... He was very small and fast and I have a 150g. So what I did was get a plastic bottle that had an opening a size that only he could fit through. I stuck a formula 1 cube in a worm trap (to make it sink and stay there) and put the worm trap in the bottle. Then I tied some fishing wire to the bottle and went fishing! It took him about an hour and a half of poking around to finally go in the bottle, then I yanked it up.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of visiting the local Cabela's and getting some size 32 hooks to fish my little demon out. I figured I get an Allen's damsel, because they are "less aggressive" than the big Dascyllus species. Then I figured I could add a neon dottyback and they would figure things out and settle down.

Bzzzzz, wrong. First he shreds the dottyback's fins, then he excavates a couple big pits under my live rock. I can't wait to get him out.

 

[billyzbear]

I caught my blue demon the other day. I didn't feel bad for the SOB when I flushed him.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of visiting the local Cabela's and getting some size 32 hooks to fish my little demon out. .

A LFS actually recomended this to me. I don'y know why, but I would have felt bad doing it even though I love to fish! I guess I am just not attached to local fish.

 

[Expos Forever]

It kind of bothers me to read these anti-damsel threads. If somebody said they flushed a healthy yellow tang down the toilet all hell would break loose.

They're the salt equivalent of the goldfish- heavily abused and viewed as disposable because of their commoness.

I would say most reefers have gotten damsels and many have regretted it (including myself). Just please remind yourself next time it's actually stupid human, not stupid fish.

 

[Anonymous]

Wisdom from Canada.
I hope the LFS that I returned him to will find someone that wants him arround!

Almost started a Nano for him, had alot of personality, unfortunatly most od which was MEAN!

 

[cdeakle]

It kind of bothers me to read these anti-damsel threads. If somebody said they flushed a healthy yellow tang down the toilet all hell would break loose.

They're the salt equivalent of the goldfish- heavily abused and viewed as disposable because of their commoness.

I would say most reefers have gotten damsels and many have regretted it (including myself). Just please remind yourself next time it's actually stupid human, not stupid fish.

I agree, not there fault we chose to add them to our tank.

Either way, I still hate the little S.O.B.'s LOL

 

[cdeakle]

Next time I'm gonna try to catch mine with Dynamite!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[jandree22]

I like damsels and IME I never had a particularly agressive one, but the posts I read scare me away from putting a 3 stripe or yellow tailed blue in my 75 :roll:

 

[Expos Forever]

IMO Yellow-tailed blue damsels would be a MUCH better choice than a 3 stripe. I removed mine more from reputation than actual aggression. 3 stripe, dominoes, etc... deserve their devil reputations.

 

[kleinfreak]

had a 3 stripe and a domino, (both Jerks...

my yellow tail blue is doing fine since I moved him into the reef tank though. he's actually getting picked on the most ironicly.

 

[billyzbear]

I had a yellow tail blue. He would eat crabs and snails if they came too close to his hole. He also picked on two clowns that were smaller than him.

 

[hillbilly]

I caught my blue demon the other day. I didn't feel bad for the SOB when I flushed him.

Would have been tasty on the grill with a baked potato!

 

[hillbilly]

Someone on one of the boards wrote awhile back "If damsels were the size of sharks, sharks would run in fear".