Where to put my Damsels

[Susan Edwards]

I posted this question in the main area and not really had a good answer so am posing it here. I've been fallow for my RS Max c250 for almost 75 days due to MV. Fish return to tanks on Sat. (tomorrow yay!)

My surviving fish are:
2 chromis from DT
1 Scooter Blenny from DT
2 blue damsels with yellow tails from display Refugium (tank next to DT so QT'd these fish as well
1 gold head sand sifting sleeper goby

The 2 chromis and scooter blenny will go back into the DT and I decided to move the gold head to the DR as I now have corals on sand bed and he'll bury them!

I'm not sure which tank to put the damsels back in. They came out of the refugium. I'll state that as the refugium is a display tank, I want a couple fish in there for movement.

I plan to buy 2 clowns and a mandarin and putg them into QT and maybe a blenny or goby. They'll be qt'd for 8-10 weeks and then go into the main tank. Will the damsels be little meanies if I add them to the DT? I did notice that they chase the chromis in the QT tank but it is small, just a 20 gal hex.

One thought, is if I put them into the main tank, then later I can maybe add a coral beauty and flame angel to the display refugium. Those are two of my "want" fish but I'm not sure I want them in my main tank in case they pick on coral. My refugium only has unwanted colts and xenia and macros. And a healthy population of pods, as does the display tank.

If I put them back in the refugium, will they pick on the CB or Flame Angel?
As for the pods in both tanks, I'm going to get some chaeto and put it in a bottle with holes in it for a safe breeding havens in both tanks. I can hide the bottle behind the rocks with good flow. Hmmm, maybe a cheap humming bird feeder would work with holes melted into the plastic...

So damsels to main tank or back to the smaller tank. Thoughts? Here is a pic of my set up. Tanks not plumbed together yet. Need to find someone to do it as I'm too nervous to do that kind of plumbing.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

The little yellowtails are pretty mellow while they are small, so you could probably keep them with similar sized clownfish in the QT tank for a little while with no issues. I had two that I no longer wanted and I donated them to a public aquarium, I visit them occasionally and they're both doing well in their 100 gallon system If you add the damsels last, they probably won't be all that mean for some time until they get really adjusted to the system.

 

[Susan Edwards]

@nautical_nathaniel The damsels are already in the QT tank, along with the chromis and goby. Before I got hit with marine velvet, they were in the display refugium. I moved every fish out into a qt tank. Now that the fallow period is over, my question is whether to put them in the main tank or back into the refugium where they were before. If they go main tank, they will only be with the chromis and scooter blenny. The next set of fish will be the clowns and whatever else I add so the damsels won't be the last fish in. They are the yellow tail damsels, and shouldn't get larger than 3 inches.

If I put them back in the refug., can they co exist with the CB or FA

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

@nautical_nathaniel The damsels are already in the QT tank, along with the chromis and goby. Before I got hit with marine velvet, they were in the display refugium. I moved every fish out into a qt tank. Now that the fallow period is over, my question is whether to put them in the main tank or back into the refugium where they were before. If they go main tank, they will only be with the chromis and scooter blenny. The next set of fish will be the clowns and whatever else I add so the damsels won't be the last fish in. They are the yellow tail damsels, and shouldn't get larger than 3 inches.

If I put them back in the refug., can they co exist with the CB or FA

Sorry, guess I misread where everything was, lots of different places for fish to go.

I would put them in the refugium, they will single the chromis out it left alone with it.