Help! I have mean fish!

well dont get domino damsels either they just as mean

 

I had the same problem when I first set up my SW tank with domino Damsels. I originally bought 3 and had to get rid of them since they were so aggressive, not only toward my other fish but every time I tired to do anything in the tank they would all attack me.

Luckily I didn't loose any fish though and ultimately donated them back to the pet store I got them at.

And of course I had 80 lbs or so of lr in the tank that had to be removed in order to catch em..

 

if i were you, i would build a fish trap, catch them, and send them on a one way trip to anywhere other then your tank

edt...Damsels are the spawn of satan in the home aquarium, closely followed by the dottyback

 

The blue and yellow tailed damsels are fine. The black and white ones you have will pick on any fish you add, period. They will either kill or be killed. Unless you want just a tank of the more aggresive damsels, take them back to your LFS

 

you know whats funny i had a yellow clown goby that lived in my tank for two years with a domino, 4 stripe, sgt major, a bunch of blues, and a sharpnose puffer. he seemed content to jump from zoa rock to zoa rock. my point is there is a place for damsel in reef tanks, even your buddy nemo is a type of damsel(pheniox do you hate nemo too?). in this hobby there are fish that don't play nice with any other fish, but damsels aren't one of them you just have to pick their tank mates carefully.
I lost the goby when i made the mistake of adding a hawiian hawkfish(that lil bastard would kill anything the same size or smaller then himself).

 

+1 on all points. And yes, clowns are a damselfish. I have a blue damsel and a yellow tailed damsel, and they are fine in my reef. My O. Clowns bully them, if anything, lol. I did have Domino's though that had to go early on for being just a little too mean.

 

lol... dottybacks are evil, i think they are worse than damsels.. its sad really because i like them too. My first fish that i took care of on my own as a child was a dottyback and i couldnt add anything with him as he would try to kill it, eventually he and a larger six line wrasse i bought killed each other... haven't touched those demons ever since.