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    Posted: February 18 2011 at 12:01pm
So i have been watching some pretty awesome behavior from my little Blue Damsel, he goes into the spot he rests for the night and grabs a piece of coral substrate and places it into a pile he has been doing this for several days and actually has a pile building up. It really is the coolest thing, he will do it for hours! Just wondering if anyone else sees this happen much?
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Well I know in the wild that damsels will cultivate little gardens of algae to eat.... maybe he's attempting that behavior.
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Very common. That's part of what makes them so cool. If only they weren't so pugnacious and even aggressive later on in life.

We had 3 large blue damsels in a 75. They each had their home. My wife loved to show visitors the antics of the one that made it's home under a pile of rocks. She would push the sand into it's hole and we would watch as it cleaned it's house spraying sand out the front door. LOL
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That shell, it's home, is about 4" diameter
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