butterfly fish

scubachrist

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hi
im looking for some info for the compatibility between cheatodonea
i see some info on live aquaria but im looking for some personal experience.
 
copperband
pakistan
auriga
racoon
heiniochus intermedius
teardrop
pearlscale
saddleback

maybe
declivis
semilarvatus


maybe i miss some but i like almost all the buttefly fish lol
they are so beautiful
 
I've had issues with auriga being aggressive. Copperbands are the opposite... docile, to a fault.

Semilarvatus can be jerks as well. Mine hates several of my other butterflies. He' was in a time out once already. I foresee another coming up.
 
yeah i had 2 copperband
one died by the velvet in an other tank...
and the other for nothisable reason...
but both were great fish
 
My experiences:

pakistan - great fish very active, never eats dry foods, didn't eat through copper very well but ate great after medication was removed

auriga - agressive towards other BF's but very hardy

racoon - good hardy fish that can hold his own agianst larger tankmates, red sea ones are amazing

heiniochus intermedius - very active, was agressive twards my hifin coralfish so he is now in my sump with my goldenheart trigger, did alright with the other BFs

teardrop - the one I had ate everything, grew fast and became aggressive once the auriga started up. I want to try another one of these down the road. I really like their color pattern.

pearlscale - good fish fairly hardy, eats most foods
saddleback - I had a hard time getting a healty one, finialy did and it is a great fish. May be more sensitive to copper (last one was not but the first 2 were, not sure if it was weakened due to disease or not)

Good luck, IMO QT and treating with medication are required to keep BFs because they do not handle disease very well.
 
i will forget the auriga
and the sadle back i heard bad thing about their behavior


an the other thing is i will try to keep some anemones with them
 
are some people already succed in keeping anemones with butterfly such as the racoon pakistan ou declivis?
i have bta and carpet anemones
 
ok
my tank was a reef and i switch slowly to a FOWLR so thats why i try to keep the anemone but i think i will sell them..
 
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