Humbug Damsels

[jeasko]

man what a week! came back from holiday to find the person I asked to look after my tank (dose with ca Kh and keep an eye on skimmer etc) has totally let me down and my auto feeder stopped working after 3 days (of a 3 week vacation) leaving me to return to an almost empty tank bar 3 humbug damsels and 1 cleaner shrimp.

So today I decided to pay an expensive trip to my LFS and replace my foxface pair of clowns one shrimp and a royal gramma, my only problem is that my damsels now seem to be bullying everything and I can only think that they have become teratorial and that i need to re scape my tank to stop it before they finally finish something off, but before I go through the whole rescape thing I thought id check my logic is right and that it will resolve my problem of my damsels bullying everything?

any one wanna comment?

 

[ben1987]

thats damsels for ya. People that have had them before tend to stay well clear of these fish in general. Can be a real PITA. i would re-home them

 

[garybuk]

Re-Home them

 

[xxBarneyxx]

I had yellow tailed damsels which are supposed to be one of the least aggressive ones. They started off ok when I got them but after a few months they got pretty bad and then when I transferred all my fish to a bigger tank they turned into complete evil. They took over a 5ft tank and immediately went after any fish that came out of the rockwork. They also pulled apart at least one of my hermits.

 

[jeasko]

so any ideas on how to catch the evil little sods? or do I have to destroy my tank again to get them out?

 

[bae1994]

ive found if you get a big net place some food in the net and wait then when they go to eat it just quickly lift the net up
and then send them to me

 

[jeasko]

bae where in the uk are you? if you can get them out of my145ltr reef tank your welcome to them

 

[bae1994]

im in lincolnshire