Big Tex
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I had a large tank with all Damsels and Chromis-my only problem ever was the yellow tails. It was a nice active tank.
what problems did you have?
I had a large tank with all Damsels and Chromis-my only problem ever was the yellow tails. It was a nice active tank.
I'm into it. I love damsels, on the wild reef they are certainly a dominate species. I always have several yellow tails in my reef. They are sweetie pies compared to the 12" long engineer goby and the other fish I have. I believe the key will be lots of escape holes and lots of damsels.
I even have a purple Dottyback that asks permission to cruise the front part of the reef. The "little" fish get no respect. The trigger laughs at them, so do the big tangs and the maroon clowns make it plain that they take nonsense from nobody.
Not at this time. There are 5 yellow tails and the clowns which are all damsels. The clowns can be among the meanest of them.
I have observed that clowns only do a hit and run and If they are only hosting to protect them. They don't chase one like the angels do. I think you will be missing something without the 3 stripes. Their color contrast are more pleasing to your tank.
Once you get beyond 3-5 it doesn't matter. The idea is to spread the abuse out over multiple fish.
I say go for it as well. I did the same with clowns. Same family of fish. Each week they pick one each other at random. It's pretty funny. But nothing bad. I have 6 total.
1 clarki
1 tomatoe
1 maroon
1 black ocellaris
1 standard ocellaris
1 blood red ocellaris
Everyone gets along fine as they do in the wild.
One yellow tang
Two small damsels
Mandarin
The rest corals.
It's a 55g.
Blaa blah blaaa.. I'm not here for the tang police. I'm not going to even entertain this. All my fish are small and everyone is happy. By the time my tang gets too big I will have him in a 150g. But until then everything in my tang is great. Everything is growing well, all fish are eating well, no fish are stressed. Jeez. Why is it that when someone mentions yellow tang the cops gotta come out?