Awful damsels chasing my clowns!

Notice, I only said I hate cycling with aggressive damsels when people aren't planning on keeping them. Irks me big time. Reef pet peeve you might say. Just clarifying to no one really.

Maybe just get a beast fish to smack them down.

 

I got them!!!!

Well just broke down the tank, which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, actually wanted to chang around my rock a little anyway. Put all my soft stuff in the sump, pulled the rock and within 10 minute the little blue fish (called them quite a few other names) are out, minimal stress and now everyone to include myself feels "more better"
Thanks everyone for the ideas and support. Beautiful fish, but little pains.

 

LOL!!! I thought I read 'Just broke the tank.'. Whew!!! Well, good job. When I broke mine down, I was able to finally get a few fish out of mine that I wanted gone. Easy to put in......not so easy to get out.

 

Huzzah I guess this further shows that the tried and true method of getting a fish out is to start pulling rock. Lots of rock.

 

I think we should add these to Murphy's Laws. "The effort needed to remove a fish is inversely proportional to its value" and "The chances of a fish dying are inversely proportional to its cost."

 

LOL i can only imagine... they are quick little buggers!

 

off topic.. but when I cycle a new tanks. I use Black Mollies ( they live in both salt or fresh) and they are usually $1.99 each. pick up 10 of them for 20 bucks.

 

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! broken tank first look it did. ever sence i got one tank going ill use some of my rock from another tank and do a water change and use some dirty water to fill up with and throw in some filters from a over the back filter from one of my smaller tanks. no time at all the tank is ready to go

 

garabaldi? eat damsels..

 

Damsels are a pain. I remember I cycled my old 150 gal FO tank with these damsels and I ended up killing one of them because he just did not want to get netted. I think fish stores should warn anyone who buys these guys that they will pose a future problem. I have 5 green chromis' that do not bother anyone. I really like them but I didn't use them to cycle my new reef tank and I put them in after most of my fish were in there. That might change as they get bigger but I don't see a problem. It's funny, today I was getting ready to feed the fish so I use this poring acrylic container and scoop up some tank water to drop the frozen food into so it thaws nicely and low and behold wouldn't you know it I scooped up one of those Chromis'!;D They are like feeding Pacmen when I put some baby brine in the tank. Too funny! Anyway good luck with your tank.