After fretting about how to catch our two damsels, I took the advice of someone on here
(don't remember who...sorry...) We got the two fish to one side of the tank, put a piece of plexiglass in to divide off the tank, took out the LR on their side and caught them!
Of course, "stripey" the three black striped damsel put up a good fight... the plexiglass wasn't quite high enough and we only wanted to take out so much water... he kept swimning up and over the top of the plexiglass! But finally I held the plexiglass while my DH had the net and everytime the little guy tried to swim up and over I was waiting to raise the glass. Hopefully they have nice new homes now and will not have to endure yet another 'cycling then catching' environment. I have to say that if I had found this site earlier we would have never used them to help cycle the tank.
After having to move half the live rock we decided to move it all around. We only have a lawnmower blennie and 3 snails since the damsels are gone so we figured it was a good time to move things before we add another fish. The blennie (affectionately called "Joe" after our neighbor who is constantly mowing his grass really short every few days!
) seemed to find the whole thing quite interesting and kept coming over to where we were moving the rock...not in a 'stressed' way but in an inquisitive way. In fact after while when I'd picked up a piece of rock to move it to a different spot he'd swim over and land on that rock. Then at some point he actually started landing on them as I was moving them! A few times he came right up to my hand! We thought that was pretty cool......
Now we're excited to begin adding other fish to the tank and hopeful that we won't make any similar mistake to the damsels.... we seem to get attached to our occupants pretty quick! Just ask "Gary" our turbo snail (DH is a huge SpongeBob fan...
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