Azure Damsel - Any reason not to?

[Prevailing Reef]

I have a 262 gallon sps dominated reef.

Current fish are powder blue tang, convict tang, lieutenant tang, purple tang, Tomini tang, yellow coris wrasse, flame Angel, foxface, 2 Royal grammas, spotted mandarin and 2 clowns in my 260.

I was thinking of adding a few Azure Damsels, any reason not to?

 

[naterealbig]

Nah, they will ads color and movement. They stay small, and are very timid. In fact, your biggest worry should be your clowns and Gramma picking on them.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ive heard nothing but good about them

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

They are great fish!

 

[nereefpat]

All of your current fishes can handle themselves, so I wouldn't worry about that.

 

[Prevailing Reef]

Any specific disease that they are prone to like Chromis?

 

[Crustaceon]

I have a pair of them in my 55 and I love them. One of the little guys has some spunk and tries to intimidate my snowflake eel every so often, who of course just shrugs it off because “eel”.

 

[mattzang]

Any specific disease that they are prone to like Chromis?

i'm pretty sure i lost a couple starckis to uronema, so i'd treat for that if possible.

my understanding is its still fairly rare in damsels, though

 

[vtecintegra]

Any specific disease that they are prone to like Chromis?

The last two I ordered from Live Aquaria arrived with Uronema.

 

[Prevailing Reef]

The last two I ordered from Live Aquaria arrived with Uronema.

This was my experience with Chromis I ordered from them.

 

[Prevailing Reef]

How do the Azures compare to the Orange Tail Blue Damsels?

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

How do the Azures compare to the Orange Tail Blue Damsels?

Azures are much more peaceful IME

 

[mort]

Wait, a damsel thread with out "they are all devil spawn", never thought I'd see the day :D

But seriously they are great fish to bring life, movement and colour to a reef and the azures are arguably the best choice.
They tend to be very hardy so a normal qt protocol works fine unless the supplier is a bit iffy. I'm jealous you guys can get them captive bred, which is very hard to do over here.

 

[Prevailing Reef]

Any reason to wait for captive bred Azure damages opposed to getting the wild caught?

I’ve been waiting for captive bred for awhile now but LA has wild caught.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I love my azure damsels. Least aggressive I have had. They stick near, but not too near each other. Have their little caves or spots and are so colorful and active. I have them in my 210g. I have 6 due to 1 dying in qt (within 12hrs) and 2 I accidentally got with peroxide and burned their gills. Do not do that!!!!

I would get like 11 or so for a 265g. Make sure to qt them and treat them. Unless you can get that many captive bred. I also love my Talbots. However, they love to move sand around and make caves under my rock. Super funny to watch and beautiful too.

 

[KingTideCorals]

Happy Tuesday!

I bought a captive bred Azure Damsel about 3 months back and the fish has been nothing but great. Takes to most foods, gives great color to the tank (also movement), spunky personality, and overall a great addition to a reef tank.

Out of all the damsels, this is the only one I have kept post cycle and been happy to move to my bigger display tank as time passed.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Super fish to have, every tank should have at least one. Talbots are great, too, but I recently moved one of each to a 20 gallon tank (from a 6' long tank) and the Talbot got very 'bossy.' I wasn't expecting that.

 

[Prevailing Reef]

Are you all getting captive bred or regular ones? How are they when they come in as far as disease goes?

 

[KingTideCorals]

My LFS had a nice collection of both wild caught and captive bred, but just seemingly the captive bred felt better in my opinion (sustainability) and the size fit more for me.

As for disease or issues they all seemed happy and healthy wild caught and captive

 

[AZReef13]

How would they work in my IM40 with Blue Star Leopard wrasse, Helfrichi, Court jester goby, and Captive bred Mandarin goby? looking for some color and movement.