Dreaded Damsels
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crypt keeper
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i heart damsels. Like 3 inch hammerheads.
spanko
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This can be the fighting they will do to set up the dominant fish. This dominant fish will become the female and the other will become the male. This will happen providing they don't kill each other first. I hope you have hiding places in the tank so the one getting the most of the strikes can at least have a place to go to regain his strength.
srfisher17
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The main problem with the little monsters is they will usually go after any newcomer. As long as you have them; the damsels, not you will decide what fish you can keep.
crypt keeper
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If you get bigger clowns IMO a pair can handle their own just fine. I had a 14g nano with a pair. They attacked my yasha goby and killed him. Damn monsters
srfisher17
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Originally Posted by AdamS
http:///forum/post/3222643
Do you think places allow you to take them back if they are causing issues?
Some stores do, others don't. You can always give them away on Craig's List, they aren't expensive. I hate to admit it (not really); but many have been given a swirlee. If your LFS talked you into using them as cycle fish; I'd INSIST they take them back.
http:///forum/post/3222643
Do you think places allow you to take them back if they are causing issues?
Some stores do, others don't. You can always give them away on Craig's List, they aren't expensive. I hate to admit it (not really); but many have been given a swirlee. If your LFS talked you into using them as cycle fish; I'd INSIST they take them back.
el guapo
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Damsels are the best . The have color and attitude, What more could you ask for ? Besides put any mean fish in the tank and the damsels will realize real quick that they are not as mean as they think they are . Dropped a few in the 90 that had been in the nano... My boy blue lasted about 30 seconds standing up to the humu humu. He flashed at him and was gone in two bites .
meowzer
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Originally Posted by srfisher17
http:///forum/post/3222651
Some stores do, others don't. You can always give them away on Craig's List, they aren't expensive. I hate to admit it (not really); but many have been given a swirlee. If your LFS talked you into using them as cycle fish; I'd INSIST they take them back.
LOl....Do they have Craig's List in England
Adam.....the whole thing is....some will some will not. You just have to ask your lfs...
http:///forum/post/3222651
Some stores do, others don't. You can always give them away on Craig's List, they aren't expensive. I hate to admit it (not really); but many have been given a swirlee. If your LFS talked you into using them as cycle fish; I'd INSIST they take them back.
LOl....Do they have Craig's List in England
Adam.....the whole thing is....some will some will not. You just have to ask your lfs...
el guapo
Active Member
Originally Posted by srfisher17
http:///forum/post/3222651
I hate to admit it (not really); but many have been given a swirlee.
Sometimes you just have to wooosh them back to the hell .
http:///forum/post/3222651
I hate to admit it (not really); but many have been given a swirlee.
srfisher17
Active Member
Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3222655
LOl....Do they have Craig's List in England
Adam.....the whole thing is....some will some will not. You just have to ask your lfs...
Somewhere in that huge purse the Queen carries, there must be one.
http:///forum/post/3222655
LOl....Do they have Craig's List in England
Adam.....the whole thing is....some will some will not. You just have to ask your lfs...
Somewhere in that huge purse the Queen carries, there must be one.
srfisher17
Active Member
Originally Posted by EL GUAPO
http:///forum/post/3222653
Damsels are the best . The have color and attitude,.
Yeah; they are at their most beautiful when all you can see is their tail sticking out of the mouth of a lionfish.
http:///forum/post/3222653
Damsels are the best . The have color and attitude,.
Yeah; they are at their most beautiful when all you can see is their tail sticking out of the mouth of a lionfish.
ironeagle2006
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Or from the mouth of a very PO Snowflake Eel.
el guapo
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Originally Posted by srfisher17
http:///forum/post/3223486
Yeah; they are at their most beautiful when all you can see is their tail sticking out of the mouth of a Huma huma .
Fixed that for you
http:///forum/post/3223486
Yeah; they are at their most beautiful when all you can see is their tail sticking out of the mouth of a Huma huma .
Fixed that for you
flower
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You shouldn't cycle with fish, even if it is a damsel...There I said it.
The problem with damsels is that they not only bite each other and kill all not so aggressive new fish. When mature, they will bite your hand when you put it in the tank hard enough to draw blood.
I put live rock in my tank and just waited, and waited for my cycle....I was never in a hurry anyway.
I heard you can speed up a cycle with raw shrimp...take the damsels back if they are not what you love. Pick a favorite fish when the time comes, and build around it, what you put in the tank dictates what else you can add later.