Scientific Name:
Dascyllus albisella
Other Common Names:
Hawaiian Dascyllus, Domino Damsel, White-Spotted Damsel.
Maximum Size:
5".
Reef Tank Compatibility:
The White Spot Damsel is an excellent candidate for a reef aquarium.
Diet & Feeding:
The White Spot Damsel should be fed a diet of meaty foods, herbivore flakes, and frozen preparations several times per day. Foods enriched with amino acids may also help to preserve body colors.
Characteristics:
These fish in their juvenile stage are rather cute. When very small, from the size of a pencil eraser up to about one or two inches, they are all black with a very pronounced small one white spot on each side of the body and a bright blue line across the head. When they are in a large school they look like little elevators moving up and down in unison. As they develop into the adult stage they loose the blue line below the front dorsal fin, which turns into a small white spot, and the white spots on the sides of the body become more of a broadened, white patch.
As juveniles these fish are not aggressive and communally get along well. New hatchlings in the wild of the Hawaiian species (Dascyllus albisella) form colonies around coral heads of Pocillopora sp., while the Indo-Pacific species (Dascyllus trimaculatus) will often shelter together in sea anemones. However, in the adult stage they can be a real nuisance to each other and other tankmates because of their territorial nature.
