What to do with the DamselFish

[PuNanny]

I have Yellowtail Damselfish in my tank for cycling just planning ahead i dont know what to do with the fish I'm planning for clowns,tang, pretty much Nemo and his friends but the Damselfish wont be able to hang with them or is a yellowtail damselfish the least aggersive? Besides that the germans dont take fish back once you buy them so the fish is SOL unless i figure a way so he could be with the other fish.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i have clownfish and a yellow tang and even with a tang twice its size, the yellowtail attacked him....then my 2 yellowtails tried to kill each other. I gave them away...they are super territorial.
if you have a sump, maybe put it in there until you find someone ready to accept your damsel ?

 

[PuNanny]

ok thats what i am thinking of doing trying to make my own sump just dont know how to start i have a rubbermaid bin about 15 gallons

 

[PuNanny]

Great now the damselfish is not eating it hides all the time I come up to the tank and it wont eat just eats the food and spits it out is formula one not the right one or prime reef?

 

[fishandchips]

how long after you added the liverock did you add the fish, and have you been testing the water ?

 

[KahluaZzZ]

damsels eats almost anything...formula one is great food. Well you can try your other but...if it's hiding...check why it's stressed. Check your params.
I cruely cycled with damsels too ( shame on me )..and they looked pale and their tales were reddish. They eventually got better. Ammonia is a huge stress test for those hardy fishies, and if the damsel is sick, well you asked for it ( i did ).
Anyways....you still can use a cheap and useful product called "Prime" by Seachem. If reduces the toxicity of ammonia and nitrite. Worked for me, worked for 2 friends. Better warn you that your test results atfer using this product may go crazy, but it's normal. Also your tank can smell weird...normal too.

 

[PuNanny]

Yeah i have that product Prime would it be safe to add it with him in there. I added him the day I got the LR Plus germans dont sell damselfishes this was the only one they were going to have in another 5 months so I was in a bind to get one. but yeah i asked for it.

 

[yamahaguy06]

damsels eats almost anything...formula one is great food. Well you can try your other but...if it's hiding...check why it's stressed. Check your params.
I cruely cycled with damsels too ( shame on me )..and they looked pale and their tales were reddish. They eventually got better. Ammonia is a huge stress test for those hardy fishies, and if the damsel is sick, well you asked for it ( i did ).
Anyways....you still can use a cheap and useful product called "Prime" by Seachem. If reduces the toxicity of ammonia and nitrite. Worked for me, worked for 2 friends. Better warn you that your test results atfer using this product may go crazy, but it's normal. Also your tank can smell weird...normal too.

you like formula one kahluaZzZ...I bought it and its like a gelly cube? lol. I dont think my fish like it as much as brine, mysis, and emrald entree

 

[bdub]

My yellow damsel was the calmest of all 4 of my damsels. The poor guy would hide under anything he could find to get away from the other mean ones.

I just took mine to the local petco, they took them all. Didn't know what else to do......couldn't keep them.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

there are more aggressive ones. Mine were peaceful until another specie was added.

 

[KahluaZzZ]

i like Formula 1 and 2...i even eat it ! Just kidding.
Hey Yamaha..stick with the mysis but forget the brine...it's like giving Doritos to a baby and hope that he'll grows
0 nutrition = brine.

 

[yamahaguy06]

thanks man....

 

[wayne]

Just keep it - mine was not too bad at all - I returned him as he was being neaten up by everything else in my tank. There are about 5 species of damsel sold as yellow tailed blue, so it depends on what you got.

You will be finding that outside the US damsels are not regarded as disposable objects..... you buy it, you keep it. If you don't want it, why buy it?

 

[PuNanny]

This is the one I have http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=134 o wait mine is purple and and yellow tail same look as that one though couldn't find the right one or does it turn blue as it gets older? or im just color blind.

 

[PuNanny]

Do you think he will be fine in a 15 gal. rubbermaid sump tilll i fig what to do with him

 

[CAPSLOCK]

He should be... there isn't much different between a rubbermaid sump and a tank sump, he might even like it better cause he can hide better. Probably don't want to keep him in the dark all the time though (like don't have the sump under the stand if you put a fish in it, or if you do have a light on it).

 

[Lorna]

I just turned over 5 blue/greenchromis to the local lfs.......they beat up my clown and killed it.....they ran my tank little beggars.....for them a 15 g rubbermaid tub would be too good for them....It took me a week to catch them and then I only did because I caved and bought a fish trap. The lfs took them and put them in with about 20 or so of their ilk and they promptly took over that tank too......

 

[PuNanny]

Lol meanie damselfish but yeah my sump is next to the tank do you think it would be a problem with it wide open or do damselfish dont jump out of the water

 

[Lorna]

I don't know but if you are really lucky they will jump right from the big tank into the rubbermaid tub and save you a pile of work catching the little damnsels.

 

[PuNanny]

lol 15 gal. Fish net