damsel aggressiveness

[flanders]

So

I have a blue damsel in my tank .. and I love domino damsels


As my tank is a week or 2 away from finishing a hyposalinity treatment from a bad ick outbreak (hence only 1 blue damsel)

I am thinking of introducing 2 domino damsels once the coast is clear.. but my overall plans include

Hippo tang
Manderin goby
Pair maroon gold clown
Jawfish
Possibly a yellow or purple tang

So the question is .. how bad can damsels get.. since the primary fish are the goby, clown and hippo ill take the blue back to the store and nix the domino if they will make too much trouble

Any experience with damsles.. how nasty do they get?

 

[Anonymous]

mine were a pia, they were nasty little buggers, the blue ones that is

I don't know about the dominoes...

 

[ChrisRD]

Domino Damsels are one of the most aggressive damsel species. As they mature they'll get particularly bad, so expect to have to remove them some day.

Personally I would not put a Hippo Tang in a tank that size, and I definitely wouldn't put two tangs. If it was me, I'd stick to just one and probably go with a Kole or a Yellow.

Mandarins are generally peaceful (except with conspecifics) and I would not put one in with aggressive fish like damsels. They also stand a better chance of survival in a mature tank.

JMO...

 

[Anonymous]

If you like damsels I would strongly recommend the yellowtail damsel, considerably less aggressive than most.

 

[Moon and Stars 56]

Damsels were the first fish we had. A blue one :evil: and a yellow (all yellow) one :twisted: . We removed the damsels from the tank because they terrorized fish we added later. Eventually, the yellow one twisted: to the extreme) did in the blue one.


We will never have another damsel---too many fish out there with better temperments.

 

[dodo99]

I had some Dominoes and yellew-tail damsels for my initial cycle. The dominoes were removed because they were too agressive towards the yellow-tails & single ocellaris (added a couple weeks later). Then the yellow-tails picked up being the bullies, as they were laying eggs after about 4 weeks thereafter.

The ocellaris took about 2 months to start swimming around the whole tank (just 29gal) after all the damsels were removed. Had to take out most of the live rock in the process - which wasn't so bad, since I wanted to re-work how they were arranged, but still...

Damsels= :evil:

G'luck,
DoDo

 

[HClH2OFish]

We had to move our clown to his own tank as our Bow-tie Damsel matured. She was beating the carp out of him...

 

[Anonymous]

So, that's where carps come from


I always wondered how they reproduce as they seem to have no sexual organs......

 

[HClH2OFish]

:lol: Caught that typo did ya?

 

[Anonymous]

OH, I thought you did it on purpoise

:wink:

 

[flanders]

thanks for help all ( i think i really just needed to be talked outta the domino) eh ill proably do a nano tank next year...