butterflies in reefs

[jjk_reef00]

Some bad news to report about the YLN butterflies. They've discovered that they can stick their entire snout down into the mouth openings of my favorite lobo and eat, I'm guessing, any gut contents that may be in there. The logo hasn't looks happy for a while now, and I couldn't figure out why, since the fish don't ever nip at it. Then I caught them, when the lights were out, doing this. I was pretty shocked to find a YLN butterfly shoved into a lobo...literally forehead touching flesh

This is crazy!! Any pics, I'd love to see that.

 

[SDguy]

This is crazy!! Any pics, I'd love to see that.

I've only seen it hapen once, but they must do it regularly, because the lobo often looks weird.

 

[orangegoby]

if the eating of lobo continued, what will you do?

 

[Daniel Reef]

if the eating of lobo continued, what will you do?

Interesting question. What about enclosing the Lobo so that it still gets light and food, but the YLN can't get access to it.

 

[SDguy]

Interesting question. What about enclosing the Lobo so that it still gets light and food, but the YLN can't get access to it.

I'm not sure there's any way to make that an attractive setup It's not that big a deal, a friend will be happy to take the lobo off my hands.

 

[shifty51008]

hi all would like to get some insite one how well any of you have had with Forcipiger flavissimus? mainly worried about my anemones and elegance coral with them

 

[suta4242]

I'm not sure there's any way to make that an attractive setup It's not that big a deal, a friend will be happy to take the lobo off my hands.

Just curious....Have you ever spot fed the lobo in the butterfly's presence?

 

[SDguy]

Just curious....Have you ever spot fed the lobo in the butterfly's presence?

No, in fact, I am unable to target feed any LPS due to my female blackspot swallowtail angel using them like buffet feeding stations if I do. It's been like this for years now, long before the YLN ever entered the reef.

 

[LemonLemon]

peter that's really unusual.

i've never heard or seen or experience YLN doing that!

could you get some pictures and maybe a video?

 

[pengelli]

Pair of Copperbands

Pair of Copperbands

Firstly, my hearty congratulations on this thread and some of the stunning tanks on it.
Now my question. Has any one ever kept two copperbands in a tank of domestic dimensions. I can understand that it might be achievable in a supersized public display aquarium.
I asked this question on a UK forum a year or so back and got one reply. The guy said he purchased two copperbands of the same size form a shop and bought them home. After acclimatising them, he released them into his tank. He said they were fine for half an hour then world war three broke out.

Has anyone else had experience of a pair of these wonderful fish?

Thanks

 

[Paul B]

Just a copperband and a wanna be copperband.

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

Just a copperband and a wanna be copperband.[/IMG]

I am about to have that same pair once my Aus copperband finishes quarantine in a couple of weeks.

 

[SDguy]

I am about to have that same pair once my Aus copperband finishes quarantine in a couple of weeks.

Congrats! I love how bright orange the aussie/coral sea specimens are... looking forward to pics!

 

[djkms]

I have a Copperband and Longnose in together. They actually pal around sometimes.

A buddy of mine owns a maintenance company and does some pretty huge fish orders on occasion. He always separates the Copperbands into different QT systems.

 

[LemonLemon]

An update on my little mitratus.

he's growing, but slowly.

 

[LemonLemon]

and my fremblii.

this guy's a pig and as mentioned before, a snail killer. he loves picking at any unfortunate turbo snail that falls on the wrong side up

 

[Amoore311]

Any reports on SPS picking with the Fremblii Lemon? I have a source that can get them in at VERY good prices, but the info I have found on them has been limited at best.


Here's some shots of my Declivis (via PIA) and my Capistratus (Collected in the Long Island Sound by Todd Gardner)

 

[LemonLemon]

ooo that's a suuuuuper pretty declivis!

mine's very big and so obese now that it's quite morbid to look at. i need to catch it out and starve it for awhile.

my fremblii is very safe except for the rare nipping on some of my softies. but it does it very rarely. probably cuz it's so well fed and so distracted by it's other butterfly/angel tank mates.

 

[Amoore311]

My Capistratus has completely stopped nipping what little corals are currently in my tank.

He will still mow down any aiptasia I toss in there as a snack though.

The nipping seemed to stop completely once I started feeding Blackworms. I did just add the declivis to the tank a week or 2 ago though, so that might have played a hand in keeping him away from nipping as well.


I've got an aussie lobo, some hairy mushrooms that are my clowns' "anemone", an ORA Red Planet, and Tyree Sunset Monti in there. The declivis hasn't ever touched any of it, the Capistratus picked on everything when I first added him to the tank.

The tank will be all sps, except for those mushrooms, once I have a chance to stock back up. The tanks only been up a month or 2 since I broke down my 180.

 

[Hookup]

oiooh i do love the pho-toes!