Brock Leonard can u set your salt water with just your water and your salt with out anything else and let it run for a while while you get the rest of your set up like your heaters and such
I cycled my tank using bio spira,just ran a ac 70 with filter floss and had my heater and powerheads running.I put the bio spira in and put a damsel in and it cycled.
Great video! Currently have Blue Devil, Yellow tail, 4 stripe, Green Scally and Talbot/Spot damsels in my tank. Have had lemon damsels and Domino damsels in the past and would Never consider getting another Domino. Totally agree, when they are small, they're pretty cute and a joy to watch swimming EVERYWHERE constantly, but boy, when they get big, they sure are fugly and so mean, that it can get difficult for the other fish in the tank, from being bullied. Damsel's have a bad rep, but in the right circumstances, they can be fun to watch, full of personality and make relatively good tank mates. My trick is to always make sure that they're the smallest fish in my tank. That way, they are not the Alpha fish, so to speak, and often get bossed about by my tang lol
@@BrockLeonard Damsels won't stand a chance against Bigger Angels and Tangs. Imagine: a Big 1' Blueface Angelfish and a 10" Sailfin Tang VS. 5" Domino Damsel
Hi Brock! I know this is a pretty old video, but I was wondering, out of these different types of blue damsels, which would you say had the brightest/most intense blue coloring? Or is it about the same for all of them?
Ive been keeping this blue damsel for 3 years, he turned blacker and 3 inch long and the only fish that survived my ich wipeout. Now hes the boss. Hell bully on anything. I hate him at the same time i love him.
I am at a loss on what to do with my Figi Blue devil! He has been alone on and off for well over a year now and is big and mean! Every fish I put in dies maybe from fear or jumps! I am going to get a lid and was about to make an order. Do you think If I add in 3 fish at once maybe it wont kill them or bully them all? Another option is try to catch him and give to my Lfs or should I just get aggressive tank mates? Very hard to find online though but should it be all damsels if I go that route? not many pretty ones beside the blues and he is very blue with a little bit of yellow. I was thinking of adding a black gold chromis which says aggressive and I know is sort of like a damsel!
Yes! you can NEVER go wrong with domino damsels. They even eat aggressively when in water which is not even fully mixed and there's salt grains and bubbles here and there
You can kill a Domino, trust me, I have killed 3 and 15 years later I'm working on my fourth! LOL The blue (ol Blue) lasted the longest for me. Darn wish I hadn't picked up that Domino yesterday since you say it gets ugly. I also got an Azure yesterday and it is already getting ugly and chasing my blue Damsel. I tell you the fish that can withstand some cruddy water and that is a porcupine puffer fish. In the beginning I had some pretty rank water but my porky puffer outlasted them all . She is going on 16 years old now. Coolest fish I ever kept!
Yes, 16, where did the time go!? This porky has been the most amazing fish I have yet to encounter. In the beginning when I first cycled my tank with Damsels, The Porcupine was the first fish I got. And you know that is definitely not a fish for beginners!! So she has endured some rough waters (pun intended) right along with me as I learned. The crazy thing is I really had no experience about what type of hard stuff I should have given her to keep her teeth worn down but Luckily she developed a taste for the Tetramin tabs I put in the tank for my hermit crabs and that is what ended up keeping her teeth in check.She has always been a happy go lucky fish minding her(or his) own business and never bothered anything I ever chose to put in the tank.I have searched online about Life span and most I have read says 15 years and that sort of worries me. That fish is like a part of me after 16 years! She got her very first case of Ich about 8 weeks ago, THAT amazes me! I pray she has fully recovered now. :)
Did oyur puffer ever mess with corals? I have always wanted one but read they wert reef friendly plus the thing about eatting snails! I am sure she/he is gone at this point :(
My blue damsel has gone from a BRIGHT blue to a dull dark almost purple. I get my water tested every week and water is always pristine salt levels always at 1.025 Noah negative parameters and anyting alkalinity or anything else and my fish went from being very active and swimming around the tank to basically hiding. You have any clue as to what is going on to stress me out?
Jayson sounds like your guy is a gal..... quite common for that type of fish. The bright fluro blue are the males. The dull dark blue /purple dark colour is the female........ just something to keep in mind if you think the water is good quality and there is no stress ......could just be as simple as being a female fish
Andrew Green Thatd be fine! The smallest id recommend would be a 55g. Puffers love to swim long distances. But eventually that puffer will get big, so down the line upgrade.
Hi do you think I could add a swallow tail damsel,domino damsel and humbug damsel in same tank I only have a small engineer goby in the tank at the moment
cortneyfletcher This tends to happen a lot. I don’t think we’ve ever gotten fish shipments in of damsels and atleast one being dead. A lot of times it’s because of travel stress or aggression towards other damsels. Your cleanup crew will normally eat the dead one.
I want to start a marine aquarium(probably by this coming summer).But deciding between the 2 salt water fishes I really like,blue damsels or the clown fishes?
No bigger than a 10 gallon tank.I would prefer smaller size and have no more than 2 fishes.I really don't want a bunch of species of fishes.Also small aquarium tank less to clean.
TheXtro101 oh yeah I totally got that. I mean really you could do anything. A clownfish or a pair of clownfish don't normally tend to swim all around the tank, they normally find their spot and swim in an area. Where as a damsel they will be all over the place 24/7. You could even get one of each.
Brock Leonard Ok,it will be awhile.I'm still driving to different aquarium stores in the county where I live.One store has them on sale for just $4.99. If I get damsels,I'll get 2 so 1 doesn't feel alone thanks.
I got two striped damselfish and two blue devils and only one of the striped damselfish is aggressive and territorial. I can’t have him in my tank for much longer
@@BrockLeonard thanks for your reply buddy. I never kept a damsel so was thinking to get a pair for my clown fish tank. Btw I have 7 clowns, 2 were dead got killed by an aggressive snowflake clown, well I have no luck when I pick this gangster snowflake 😪
I’m setting up a nano tank with a clownfish, a fire fish, and a clown goby. I love the yellowtails but am scared to try it. Any suggestions on how to make it work?
ST 19 I would recommend you add the yellow tail blue damsel last by the way is the tank at least a 30 gallon? This is coming from a guy who has Ben doing saltwater fish for about 3 years now
Still man Burnett It’s only 15 but I’m dropping the clown goby. If I add the damsel it’d be months after everything else so that there is zero aggression
That coran Angel must be dead by now , did he pass the parasite to the other fish? what did you do to that aiptasia? That will be heaven to a file fish
@@BrockLeonard plan to bring him back to the store and get 2 clown one angle next week. You introduction videos is really nice to beginner and all. Will you gonna make some video to introduce coral?
thanks for the tip on the green chromis! they are so cute !!
Mary Whitehurst thank you for watching 🙌🏻
Brock Leonard can u set your salt water with just your water and your salt with out anything else and let it run for a while while you get the rest of your set up like your heaters and such
Mary Whitehurst yes you can. Pouring sand into water though is going to be tough without stirring it up real bad.
I cycled my tank using bio spira,just ran a ac 70 with filter floss and had my heater and powerheads running.I put the bio spira in and put a damsel in and it cycled.
when you add sand make sure filters are turned off
I would say the yellowtail blue Damsel is the best
It’s low budget dori and it won’t get sick at all
jOHńŸ Łė the divine autism dragon of chaos Yesss!! Little kids see them as dory all the time at the shop.
Great video! Currently have Blue Devil, Yellow tail, 4 stripe, Green Scally and Talbot/Spot damsels in my tank. Have had lemon damsels and Domino damsels in the past and would Never consider getting another Domino. Totally agree, when they are small, they're pretty cute and a joy to watch swimming EVERYWHERE constantly, but boy, when they get big, they sure are fugly and so mean, that it can get difficult for the other fish in the tank, from being bullied.
Damsel's have a bad rep, but in the right circumstances, they can be fun to watch, full of personality and make relatively good tank mates.
My trick is to always make sure that they're the smallest fish in my tank. That way, they are not the Alpha fish, so to speak, and often get bossed about by my tang lol
Thank you so much for sharing this!
@@BrockLeonard Damsels won't stand a chance against Bigger Angels and Tangs. Imagine: a Big 1' Blueface Angelfish and a 10" Sailfin Tang VS. 5" Domino Damsel
Hi Brock! I know this is a pretty old video, but I was wondering, out of these different types of blue damsels, which would you say had the brightest/most intense blue coloring? Or is it about the same for all of them?
I'd say springer damsel
@@drill_official6099 Thank you for the reply!
@@Gabongos no worries man 👌
Love, Love the blue and yellow colors!!
Ive been keeping this blue damsel for 3 years, he turned blacker and 3 inch long and the only fish that survived my ich wipeout. Now hes the boss. Hell bully on anything. I hate him at the same time i love him.
hahhaha that's really how it is. Mean as hell, but gotta love em'
Do domino damsels prefer to be in groups? How many should I keep in a 30 gallon?
I remember when you could buy these for $3-$5. Not anymore
$10-15 now
I am at a loss on what to do with my Figi Blue devil! He has been alone on and off for well over a year now and is big and mean! Every fish I put in dies maybe from fear or jumps! I am going to get a lid and was about to make an order. Do you think If I add in 3 fish at once maybe it wont kill them or bully them all? Another option is try to catch him and give to my Lfs or should I just get aggressive tank mates? Very hard to find online though but should it be all damsels if I go that route? not many pretty ones beside the blues and he is very blue with a little bit of yellow. I was thinking of adding a black gold chromis which says aggressive and I know is sort of like a damsel!
Yes! you can NEVER go wrong with domino damsels. They even eat aggressively when in water which is not even fully mixed and there's salt grains and bubbles here and there
2:48 which Damsel is this?
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I've found that if you're not keeping live rock or inverts, keeping the SG at 1.018 will discourage parasites and the fish will still be happy. YMMV
I don't think they're happy. Damsels eat parasites anyways, so you're just putting them in a sub optimal environ for no good reason.
I have a blue damsel and i recently noticed that one of his eye is poped out do you know why?
Do damsels bury themselves in the sand? I just set up my first saltwater tank. I put one in there and it disappeared
gasoline_of_life I found it. He was in the castle the whole time. As I was lifting it up looking for him I guess he was going up with it LOL
I’ve heard of the burying them selves though I’ve never seen it
Is it possible to get tiny damsels or add them late or something like that so they are less aggressive
Definitely good to add them last so that they do not become so territorial over the other fish
You can kill a Domino, trust me, I have killed 3 and 15 years later I'm working on my fourth! LOL The blue (ol Blue) lasted the longest for me. Darn wish I hadn't picked up that Domino yesterday since you say it gets ugly. I also got an Azure yesterday and it is already getting ugly and chasing my blue Damsel. I tell you the fish that can withstand some cruddy water and that is a porcupine puffer fish. In the beginning I had some pretty rank water but my porky puffer outlasted them all . She is going on 16 years old now. Coolest fish I ever kept!
Mary Anne Ferguson 16?!? Oh my gosh that is amazing. Ours up at the shop is working on 10.
Yes, 16, where did the time go!? This porky has been the most amazing fish I have yet to encounter. In the beginning when I first cycled my tank with Damsels, The Porcupine was the first fish I got. And you know that is definitely not a fish for beginners!! So she has endured some rough waters (pun intended) right along with me as I learned. The crazy thing is I really had no experience about what type of hard stuff I should have given her to keep her teeth worn down but Luckily she developed a taste for the Tetramin tabs I put in the tank for my hermit crabs and that is what ended up keeping her teeth in check.She has always been a happy go lucky fish minding her(or his) own business and never bothered anything I ever chose to put in the tank.I have searched online about Life span and most I have read says 15 years and that sort of worries me. That fish is like a part of me after 16 years! She got her very first case of Ich about 8 weeks ago, THAT amazes me! I pray she has fully recovered now. :)
Did oyur puffer ever mess with corals? I have always wanted one but read they wert reef friendly plus the thing about eatting snails! I am sure she/he is gone at this point :(
You answered all my questions
Thank you
Thank you for watching Wendy!!!☺️
striped damselfish are aggressive as hell too.
My blue damsel has gone from a BRIGHT blue to a dull dark almost purple. I get my water tested every week and water is always pristine salt levels always at 1.025 Noah negative parameters and anyting alkalinity or anything else and my fish went from being very active and swimming around the tank to basically hiding. You have any clue as to what is going on to stress me out?
Jayson Hannah Sounds like he is getting bullied
@@BrockLeonard if he is it's happening when the lights go out. I never see any other fish messing with him.
Jayson sounds like your guy is a gal..... quite common for that type of fish. The bright fluro blue are the males. The dull dark blue /purple dark colour is the female........ just something to keep in mind if you think the water is good quality and there is no stress ......could just be as simple as being a female fish
can 2-4 three spoted damsels go with a small porcupine puffer (2-3 inch)? and what tank size would you advice if they were to go together?
Andrew Green Thatd be fine! The smallest id recommend would be a 55g. Puffers love to swim long distances. But eventually that puffer will get big, so down the line upgrade.
Brock Leonard Thanks man
Hi do you think I could add a swallow tail damsel,domino damsel and humbug damsel in same tank I only have a small engineer goby in the tank at the moment
That would work just fine!
55 gallon bought 4 damsels 2 yellow tails , a 3 trip stripe and a dominoe the domino is missing what could've happened to it
cortneyfletcher This tends to happen a lot. I don’t think we’ve ever gotten fish shipments in of damsels and atleast one being dead. A lot of times it’s because of travel stress or aggression towards other damsels. Your cleanup crew will normally eat the dead one.
I want to start a marine aquarium(probably by this coming summer).But deciding between the 2 salt water fishes I really like,blue damsels or the clown fishes?
TheXtro101 how big of a tank are you thinking about getting?
No bigger than a 10 gallon tank.I would prefer smaller size and have no more than 2 fishes.I really don't want a bunch of species of fishes.Also small aquarium tank less to clean.
TheXtro101 oh yeah I totally got that. I mean really you could do anything. A clownfish or a pair of clownfish don't normally tend to swim all around the tank, they normally find their spot and swim in an area. Where as a damsel they will be all over the place 24/7. You could even get one of each.
Brock Leonard Ok,it will be awhile.I'm still driving to different aquarium stores in the county where I live.One store has them on sale for just $4.99. If I get damsels,I'll get 2 so 1 doesn't feel alone thanks.
TheXtro101 sounds awesome! And thank you for watching
Do they need corals and polyps i dont want any of those to avoid the pests that hitch hike on them. So just dry live rock and sand.
Kathleen Monsegue that’s it!
Kathleen Monsegue l
I got two striped damselfish and two blue devils and only one of the striped damselfish is aggressive and territorial. I can’t have him in my tank for much longer
Yep, sounds like it got too territorial over the tank. Best to split em' up so the others do not get bullied.
Are yellowtail damsels usually captive bred or taken from th wild.
Why are they are so cheap .
Necromos The monkey killer Captive Bred.
What kind of of water they live? in Salt? What Continent (Country) are they from?
Do you think a domino damsel could live with tomato clowns in a 40 ?
Oh yeah buddy😁
Domino damsels are honestly ugly asf
Young DAMSELS: 😇
Old DAMSELS: 😈
Who's more aggressive compared to clown fish?
Clorox Bleach Damsels definitely more aggressive. Clownfish can be territorial, but damsels will go after some fish.
@@BrockLeonard thanks for your reply buddy. I never kept a damsel so was thinking to get a pair for my clown fish tank. Btw I have 7 clowns, 2 were dead got killed by an aggressive snowflake clown, well I have no luck when I pick this gangster snowflake 😪
Clorox Bleach you can never tell a clownfish’s personality😂
How to care after breeding... please do reply ....
Kaleem Ahmed Khaja Tbh, I’ve never bred them before. We currently don’t have the equipment to do it efficiently.
What fish can domino damselfish live with?
Virtually anything. The problem is they can get big and aggressive so we tend to move them to predator tanks by the end of their lifetime.
I’m setting up a nano tank with a clownfish, a fire fish, and a clown goby. I love the yellowtails but am scared to try it. Any suggestions on how to make it work?
ST 19 I would recommend you add the yellow tail blue damsel last by the way is the tank at least a 30 gallon? This is coming from a guy who has Ben doing saltwater fish for about 3 years now
Still man Burnett It’s only 15 but I’m dropping the clown goby. If I add the damsel it’d be months after everything else so that there is zero aggression
Wish they weren't mean... i love the yellow tail and blue devil
Thank you sr
Happy to help!
Are u the m.m.a. fighter please??
These guys won’t bully a dwarf lionfish will they?
Turner Dischinger I’d be very surprised. Fish never mess with lion fish😂
Brock Leonard do you a dwarf lionfish would eat a skunk clown if the skunk clown started out bigger than him and was already established?
Turner Dischinger No. lionfish tend to go after fish way smaller than their mouth. As long as they are fed well, you shouldn’t have a problem.
That coran Angel must be dead by now , did he pass the parasite to the other fish?
what did you do to that aiptasia? That will be heaven to a file fish
We actually ended up quarantining him and with a few chemicals, he healed right up. Now the aiptasia we tend to use Aiptasia Away to blast em.
If you school them, their not that aggressive.
this is true!!
my yellow tail damsel kill 3 clownfish。。sad
W lau Gotta get him out of there :(
@@BrockLeonard plan to bring him back to the store and get 2 clown one angle next week. You introduction videos is really nice to beginner and all. Will you gonna make some video to introduce coral?
W lau Most definitely! I’ll plan on doing them soon.
My picaso eat my tre spot dammsel
oh my gosh