After much research, my initial Copperband success!!

[Froggy]

Thanks Paul,

What a wonderful fish the CBB is. Mine already recognizes me as the gravy train and responds immediately when I enter the room. The CBB has loads of personality and mine has been very outgoing.

I really enjoy the special feedings I do with the turkey baster. The CBB comes right up to the end of the tube and eats and eats and eats blackworms from it without fear.

I am feeding live blackworms, frozen mysis, and a frozen mix called marine cuisine ( blend of mysis, krill and other meaty seafood )daily. I feed Rod's food every couple of days. My CBB is now eagerly eating the mysis and marine cuisine side by side with my other fish. The CBB still looks at the other fish eating their flake and new life spectrum pellets as " really are you nuts !".

On a side note, my other fish are getting rather portly with all of the increased feedings I do to ensure enough eating by the CBB. The corals in my tank seem to also be responding to the increased food input. I think I may have been underfeeding before I got the CBB.

Thanks for still following along with my CBB story.

Joe

 

[Paul B]

I feed everything with a feeder looking thing (pictured) and would never just throw food in the tank. The corals also get fed with one of these. I never had trouble feeding copperbands, if you start off with a healthy one, they eat almost anything and a lot of it.
I can't believe how much clam they can eat at one time. Very nice fish.

 

[Monkeyfish]

My CBB must be a freak because he loves blackworm and mysis and nothing else. Flakes and pellets (presoftened) bah! Clam... naaah. Ocean Nutrition frozen formula foods (angel, 1, 2 and Spirulina) nope. Oysters... meh. Oyster eggs, Nutramar Ova, Cyclopeeze... never seen him touch 'em though I suppose he may be eating the smaller foods and I'm not seeing it. I've had him for over a year and he's grown quite a bit. Very active, begs for food whenever he sees me, looks nice and healthy, I just wish he'd eat a larger variety of foods. Maybe I'll try Marine Cuisine or Rogger's.

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

I think your cbb is pretty normal. Mine loves live blackworms, eats a homemade mix of seafood and mysis and Rods and spirulina enriched brine, and not too much else (no flakes or pellets). I haven't tried clam recently. To some extent, I think they seem to focus on the foods they like and pass up other things they might have eaten. Mine gets live blackworms in the evening and doesn't bother going after mysis if I put it in the tank before the worms. Mine also isn't too smart about finding food as it focuses back on me when the food thins out in the tank rather than aggressively looking for the last bits.