DAMSELS what is your opinion on them

tt101 · #1 04-29-2012, 05:14 AM

hey guys,
i am really looking to add some colorful small fish to my tank and time and time again i gravitate to the damsel tanks.....something about that bright blue and yellow just magnetically pulls me towards them....but alas i keep hearing about their aggression so i slowly and saddly turn around and walk away from it without looking back. the other day i was at a lfs and the had a 125g display with some type of tang and a pair of clowns and a few other randoms but in it they also had a few azure and blue and gold damsels so that got me thinking. if they can live peacefully if introduced after everyone else is well acclimated?
thanks for the help

lockrookie · #2 04-29-2012, 05:28 AM

evil...but so are my two sets of clowns mostly towards me mind you but damsels are evil towards everyone else in tank

Nano · #3 04-29-2012, 05:34 AM

Mine was a real @$$ he's somewhere else now lol

Proteus · #4 04-29-2012, 05:37 AM

Hate em

That is all

tt101 · #5 04-29-2012, 05:43 AM

yeaaaahhhh i think im going to stay the HELL away from now on.......too bad though. can you imagine if they were not aggressive how popular they would be

tt101 · #6 04-29-2012, 05:46 AM

im just reading some peoples expriences online and some people even call them peaceful......this is so not fair. i dont wanna risk it but if i do and it works out then im very lucky.......UGHGHGH

paddyob · #7 04-29-2012, 06:16 AM

Avoid them unless you are going all damsels or an aggressive species tank.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #8 04-29-2012, 06:29 AM

I found the blue with yellow tail damsels are peaceful. Most others are quite aggressive. I have a pair of rescued Sgt. Majors that are huge for damsels, but they are only aggressive towards each other.

dc4 · #9 04-29-2012, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by tt101

im just reading some peoples expriences online and some people even call them peaceful......this is so not fair. i dont wanna risk it but if i do and it works out then im very lucky.......UGHGHGH

The problem is that once you add them to the tank, if they dont work out, you will be tearing up your rockwork to catch them.

cichlid000 · #10 04-29-2012, 08:25 AM

Think they tolerate the fish they are used to, but hard to introduce new fish afterwards once they are grown. Mine is with 2 clowns and he is fine with them, but I'll put my scraper in there to clean the algae off the sides of the tank and he is attacking it, and I mean attacking & bumping it. Its so much bigger then he is, that I couldn't imagine if it was another fish!