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Ashley - 2010-05-13
I have a female all blue damselfish (named Dolce), and I not only love her beautiful blue color, but her fairly docile, sometimes skittish attitude! She doesn't like newcomers at first (flares her fins, backs up to them and does a weird slapping with her tail) but gets over it quick and becomes the new fish'd best friend! lol She currently lives in a 55 gallon tank with a porcupine puffer, false percula clownfish, and a heniochus butterfly.

vic hillier - 2010-04-24
I have a breeding pair of these, and find they are very aggressive towards the smaller fish.
They always lay their eggs on the glass front of my aquarium, but also push all the live sand between their live rock and the egg laying area away into large piles.
I notice that they chirp loudly when threatened by other tank mates.

Spencer Nagle - 2010-03-03
Cool Fish.

I've seen a bunch of these while snorkeling in Grand Cayman

http://caymanunderwater.blogspot.com/

LUIS ALERS - 2009-02-04
I have a aquaripure nitrate remover filter, I paid 300.00 for. I have talked with John, he is the guy you call if you have problems with the filter. We have emailed each other back and forth, the final result of this filter is a repoff, please dont get cheated like i did,the filter doesn't remove anything is all and I lost my 300. 00
luis alers

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natho - 2010-02-26
Im from Australia, I got one of those Aquaripures and it is the best money ever spent. It worked for me, Ive had it running since setup and never seen any nitrates after it cycled. As I have lot of coral and 19 fish I think you may not have it set up properly.

Karen - 2010-02-08
I was given my damnsel as an adult with two tiny percula clowns from a friend, due to her taking down her tank and she had no where to take them. Sucker I know.... He is about 4" in size now and very protective of the two clowns he came with. He put the maroon clown I had already had in his place (who was known as Hitler reason implied). Hitler no longer gives me any trouble, however this Damsel from hell...aka Demonfish is much worse. The rearranging of the substrate and rocks is nothing compared to the fact that I have 4 fish in a 75 gallon reef tank. I can't add anything...crabs, snails, fish...nada. He terrorizes and destroys all that touches the water. Today...was the kicker, I was checking the status of a newly added snail, since he hadn't moved in three days, and I was bitten by this Demon fish on my forearm, and it was not a love tap like my clowns have done. He was pissed enough to break the skin. This fish is nuts, I have thought many times of what I could buy that was bigger and meaner that would eat him! Hmmmm Now mind you aside from his destruction he has his cute moments, he plays with the cats, interactively, chases their tales, taunts them, will follow your finger along the glass, and eat from your hand. But Truly not the fish I would recommend for everyone.

drew - 2009-12-13
I have an orange tail blue devil, and he lives up to his name, he even bullies my flame angel! He is the only damsel I have ever seen eat from my hand, but can get carried away and nip on my arm while doing tank maintenance. He loves to tease my dogs when the come to check out the tank by swimming back and fourth across the tank. By far the most persenable damsel I've ever seen!

anthony - 2009-06-14
It's been two years since I got my first blue 'Devil' Velvet Damsel and I would like to say that the fish has been a pain in the butt. 'Devil' eats all the food I put in the tank, leaving no food for my other fish. Always pushing them around, everytime I add a new rock it's moved, and my sand is dug out from under the rocks so he can swim from one side to the other. Everytime I fix it, 'Devil' digs out the sand again. He's tried to bite on two occasions and the little guy has teeth. What can I say, I love the little guy, just wish he would just relax a bit.

the man - 2009-05-25
I hate my damsel! He was nice when I first bought him and has grown to about 4 times his original size. He has since made it virtually impossible to put any new fish in the tank because he constantly harrasses and picks at them. Trying to remove him has been a chore as well. I don't recommend this fish, period! unless you have larger fish that could put him in his place.

Suzy - 2009-04-30
I have a breeding pair of three stripes and I am finding them to be extremely durable. I have a variety of different snails and they seem to do well with all 7 of them. I am pretty impressed with my little pair. As most have stated they are aggressive when you place your hand in the tank. Mine haven't tried to bite me, they more less swim and hide. Mine are still fairly young so I am awaiting for them to lay some eggs. The male seem to turn darker colors when anything gets near the rock cave. I would suggest anyone starting out to get damsels or if you have have less timid critters such as snails, I am still slowly adding to my aquarium. They are a great investment I believe.

Tony T. - 2009-04-09
My canary damsel is the hardiest of the hardiest! He has lasted through two cycles in both of my tanks. He's a soldier!

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