Butterflies with anemones?

[Das awesome]

Has anyone had success with this?

I have a pearlscale in a reef and it has not touched any of the corals and he's been in there for about a year, but once I put a maxi mini in there, it went crazy for it.

 

[SDguy]

Generally speaking, butterflies like anemones.

 

[tcmfish]

If you had a tank with enough anemones it could be possible, but it would probably be an anemone tank. If you had a tank with splitting Entacmaea quadricolor (Bubble-tip anemones) I think that would be your only option.

A single anemone would get eaten.

 

[ReefTeacher]

I have done it with bubble tip but only with an aggressive Maroon clown in the anemone. She even protected her host from a pretty confident threadfin butterfly. otherwise the anemone would have been lunch.

 

[HumbleFish]

I have done it with bubble tip but only with an aggressive Maroon clown in the anemone. She even protected her host from a pretty confident threadfin butterfly. otherwise the anemone would have been lunch.

+1 Bring out the battle axe! IME, this is the only way to protect anemones from anemone eating fish.

 

[orangegoby]

i have a aiptasia eating CBB, what r my chances with Bubble-tip anemones?

 

[HumbleFish]

i have a aiptasia eating CBB, what r my chances with Bubble-tip anemones?

Hit or miss; but odds are a Copperband won't pick at a BTA.