What’s your take on a shoal of damsels ??

[ca1ore]

Big, a 450. Here's your care package ....

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/shoals.358831/

 

[DrewBrees713]

Why must you tease us with pictures. I demand you put up a video of your tank

 

[ca1ore]

There are videos in my build thread, Simon's 450. Damsels are small and hard to capture on a FTS video, but I think you'll get the idea.

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

i would never have domino damsels again they were the absolute worst

 

[DrewBrees713]

Beautiful tank, Simon!

As for dominoes, i wouldnt add them either unless i have a huge tank. At least 500g for sure.

 

[Mal Cameron]

Whatever you get I wouldnt recommend a yellow damsel. Ive got one in my 400lt reef and its the biggest pain of any fish. Very aggressive but even worse it pushes corals around and then buries them.

 

[JollyReefer]

It didn’t work well for me with green chromis. See below link:

Green chromis are murderous savages!
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/Green-chromis-are-murderous-savages!.445724/

 

[mattzang]

Azures, arnazae, springeri, talbot, rollandi, traceyi, and tricincta are all well behaved.

You could easily have 10+ in that size tank.

I have a springeri in a 50 gallon, but was told I couldn't add anymore damsels. Mine seems pretty low on the totem pole in my tank (2 ocellaris, sixline wrasse, bangaii cardinal, lyretail anthias, midas blenny), would I be able to add more damsels if they came from that list?

 

[ca1ore]

Most of the chrysiptera damsels are OK. Any marine fish, under unfavorable conditions, can become aggressive. I'd never keep dominos, 3/4 stripes again. They are hyper aggressive and get ugly as they grow. But springers, YT, azure, Rolland's, Tracey or talbot are all fine with adequate space and not really wimpy tankmates.

 

[mattzang]

Most of the chrysiptera damsels are OK. Any marine fish, under unfavorable conditions, can become aggressive. I'd never keep dominos, 3/4 stripes again. They are hyper aggressive and get ugly as they grow. But springers, YT, azure, Rolland's, Tracey or talbot are all fine with adequate space and not really wimpy tankmates.

Thank you! It's my first saltwater tank so I'm trying to be smart about adding.. if I could find a tracey damsel I'd be all over that.

All of my fish seem to be willing to defend their areas, the most aggressive being the sixline (really hoping he/she isn't one of the psycho ones I've read about on here..) and maybe the cardinal. But I've kinda seen everyone flare up and chase some fish out of their particular areas, so the only things I can put in at this point are something that's able to defend itself a bit like a damsel.

 

[DrewBrees713]

Ok slight change of plan. I picked up a standard 6 ft long RR tank today instead of a cube. Will add wet sand from the beach tomorrow and fill her up with water. Possibly stocking damsels this wkend.

So can i get away with 50 damsels of various kind and some other fish in the future, possibly tangs , angels, etc.?

 

[ca1ore]

Here is a picture of the various damsels I am currently keeping. There's 50-60 in total, though mostly yellow-tail.

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[Haydn]

OK I'll put the cat among the pigeons

Google 'Chromis' ignore the 'green' ones and look at the others, Vanderbilt's, Black bar, Midget, Ambon to name a few, there are loads of them! They are all stunning little fish, they are damsels and peaceful(ish).

 

[vetteguy53081]

tried this twice- No more. was nice in the beginning and they became a herd of piranahs !!

 

[nereefpat]

tried this twice- No more. was nice in the beginning and they became a herd of piranahs !!

Chrysiptera damsels?

 

[vetteguy53081]

No, not this species as is rarely seen in Midwest stores

 

[nereefpat]

No, not this species as is rarely seen in Midwest stores

What species?

 

[Marv]

I've heard so many bad things about Damsels and had not considered them until recently. With my tank only being 30 gallons I'm very limited on the kind of fish I can have. After researching I decided to get the Azure damsel and what a nice addition. I'm planning an upgrade to a 125 gallon aquarium and I will definitely add more Azure damsels.

 

[shred5]

So what is the most peaceful damsel? Is it the Azure? what would be second?
My 120 show tank I want allot of smaller fish.
I was thinking a bunch of damsels, a bunch Royal Grammas, A bunch of anthias, and chromis and maybe a few chalk bass or anthias.

What would be the best ones are the most peaceful..

#1 and #2?

 

[eatbreakfast]

I find springeri, and azure to be among the most peaceful.