Pink Damsel schooling my clowns

[Gatling]

Title has it all, many of you are probably going to tell me to get rid or the damsel.

I had a small link Damsel for 3 weeks before I bought a pair of 2 clowns. The damsel didn't touch them for 2 days but now the damsel in nipping at them every minute. How long can this relationship hold before something dies? The clowns must be in a lot of stress

I plan on calling the LFS (not so local in my case lol) and asking to just return the fish. I don't want to kill it! But I can only do so in the next 3-4 days I think.

I tried separated the tank with egg crate but they both easily swim through the holes..

 

[BestMomEver]

My baby yellow tang harassed a 3” pair of Clarkii clowns for about two days. The clowns then discovered that if they stuck together the tang left them alone. Unified front so to speak. They were already a bonded pair when I got them so everything worked out fine. How big is the damsel? And the clowns? And what variety clowns?

 

[Gatling]

My baby yellow tang harassed a 3” pair of Clarkii clowns for about two days. The clowns then discovered that if they stuck together the tang left them alone. Unified front so to speak. They were already a bonded pair when I got them so everything worked out fine. How big is the damsel? And the clowns? And what variety clowns?

The tank is small.. fluval 13.5. I bought 2 ocellaris clowns and they immediately bonded in the car ride home. They swim together now by a power head. When one does wonder off, the damsel nips at them. The damsel is small for a damsel but just slightly larger than my clowns. Roughly same size id say.

The damsel isn't always attacking though, just when the clowns wonder off too far from their corner

 

[ashleyt]

Title has it all, many of you are probably going to tell me to get rid or the damsel.

I had a small link Damsel for 3 weeks before I bought a pair of 2 clowns. The damsel didn't touch them for 2 days but now the damsel in nipping at them every minute. How long can this relationship hold before something dies? The clowns must be in a lot of stress

I plan on calling the LFS (not so local in my case lol) and asking to just return the fish. I don't want to kill it! But I can only do so in the next 3-4 days I think.

I tried separated the tank with egg crate but they both easily swim through the holes..

What color is your damsel. I've learned that the blue ones with yellow tails are the least aggressive. We have had to remove our black and black/white stripped damsels because they attacked all our fish. You could try separating them or removing the damsel temporarily then introduce it back later. We learned that when introducing new fish those little creature tend to go after the new one but if you add it after then they aren't usually as bad.

 

[Gatling]

What color is your damsel. I've learned that the blue ones with yellow tails are the least aggressive. We have had to remove our black and black/white stripped damsels because they attacked all our fish. You could try separating them or removing the damsel temporarily then introduce it back later. We learned that when introducing new fish those little creature tend to go after the new one but if you add it after then they aren't usually as bad.

The damsel is pink. All pink with a slightly blue head. I tried separating the tank but they got through the egg crate so I'll have to double it up and off set the crate to make the holes smaller. Its a pain to cut the egg crate around the rock work tho :/

Do you think after time they'll just settle down?

 

[ashleyt]

The damsel is pink. All pink with a slightly blue head. I tried separating the tank but they got through the egg crate so I'll have to double it up and off set the crate to make the holes smaller. Its a pain to cut the egg crate around the rock work tho :/

Do you think after time they'll just settle down?

It depends. I've never seen a pink damsel so I'm not sure how they typically act. If you have something similar to one of those small reptile containers or maybe a small tank you could try that. My only blue one that attacked did settle down but the blacks and stripped ones did not.

 

[Gatling]

It seems like they have all settled down, each fish knows it's respective location in the tank. Im not too worried! Now, its just a matter of feeding the clowns, they aren't going for any flakes/pellets and my damsel is quite the aggressive feeder

 

[ashleyt]

It seems like they have all settled down, each fish knows it's respective location in the tank. Im not too worried! Now, its just a matter of feeding the clowns, they aren't going for any flakes/pellets and my damsel is quite the aggressive feeder

We feed all of ours frozen food. They seem to like it better. Do you know what they were being fed at the place you bought them from?

 

[Gatling]

We feed all of ours frozen food. They seem to like it better. Do you know what they were being fed at the place you bought them from?

The store I buy them from just throw pellets in the tanks. I'm going to start buying mysis shrimp or something frozen to get them eating