yellow tailed blue damselfish

Kaizen Reef name: D. Fiddy
Common name: Yellow-tailed blue damselfish
Scientific name: Chromis Xanthurus

Physical description: Beautiful blue body and yellow tail with stunning black line accents on face and through eyes.

Diet: This fish loved Spirulina flake the most and would eat meaty foods like frozen mysis shrimp and tiger shrimp.

Important dates:
7/17/09: Added to the tank
9/14/09: Returned to fish store

Update: Unfortunately when we added our baby clownfish to the tank we realized that we could never condition the aggression out of this stunning fish. The damselfish and wrasse bullied and nipped at the new clownfish continually. We returned them to the fish store as having clownfish has always been our main goal of reef keeping.

Personal notes: We have not sexed him but refer to him as a male specimen. His species is one of the least aggressive in the damselfish family but he is still quite the thug. He tries to bully around the wrasse but mostly they just play and enjoy themselves. He has injured his scales on two occasions so far by playing too rough in the rocks and with his tankmates. He is a very photographic fish and we have been able to take many stunning pictures of him.