copperband butterfly anemone safe?

[Johnb123]

i read that they eat anemone's but more primarily aiptasia. i want to get a anemone should i be worried?

 

[Aussieiniowa]

The one I had never went anywhere near my three bubble tips

 

[OrionN]

CBB is reef safe. I have Magnifica, Gigantia, Haddoni, Malu, and Tapetum in my reef with my CBB. I also have several LPS Goiopora, Alveopora, Elegance, Frogspawn, Fungii without problem. No problem with SPS either. Over the last 30 years I keep about 5 CBB. Never problem.
All your Aptasia, feather duster, medusa worms will be eaten. A lot of the visible larger invertebrates in the rock and sand fauna will be gone so the diversity of your sand and rock fauna will be less

 

[ThRoewer]

Like Minh said: CBB are partially reef safe. They are safe for corals, anemones, shrimp and the like, but not for worms or things they may take for worms (IMO CBB only nip on aptasia because they confuse them with worms)

 

[davocean]

CBB's will vary in what they pick at depending on the region they are collected, and what they may have been trained to eat.
Some go nuts for aptasia while some do not, I have had one that seemed to only eat pods, and a few that were awesome at eating aptasia as well as taking mysis and NLS pellets.
Clams, gorgonians, feathers of any kind will most likely be eaten by them, but sea anemone's should be fine.
After years of keeping them I decided to go w/out on this tank for reasons Minh/Orion mentioned, I miss all the little feather dusters and stuff on rocks that were always picked clean by my CBB's

 

[OrionN]

I trained mine to eat steamed clams but they don't bother Tridacnid clams. At least mine did not

 

[jason2459]

I have one that's aiptasia safe.

 

[snorvich]

I have one that's aiptasia safe.

Lots of folks have that experience. :dance:

 

[davocean]

I have one that's aiptasia safe.

I once had one that did not eat aptasia at first, but after using aptasia x and the aptasia was somewhat melted but still there, then it started to eat it, and later grew to eat it w/out needing the apt x
I think the semi melted apt was easy for it to eat or something, worth a try if you have not already

 

[jason2459]

Lots of folks have that experience. :dance:

I just hope they get the fish for the fish and not the aiptasia. I love butterfly fish especially the copperband. I also have a matted file fish because of its unique looks and smaller size compared to something like the tasseled files fish. It doesn't touch the aiptasia either. I think I feed to much but my fish are healthy.

I once had one that did not eat aptasia at first, but after using aptasia x and the aptasia was somewhat melted but still there, then it started to eat it, and later grew to eat it w/out needing the apt x
I think the semi melted apt was easy for it to eat or something, worth a try if you have not already

Nice tip. I've also heard of hand feeding them and lead them into eating some food out of the aiptasia.

I'm not to worried. I'll always have some aiptasia in my main display. My sump is full of them and I like them there. They eat left overs along with everything else thriving down there.

I always keep a handful of peppermint shrimp stocked and at least one or two of them have the taste for it and keep the aiptasia trimmed back.

 

[hogfanreefer]

Mine eats aiptasia. I have a ton in my overflow but never see it in the DT due to his efforts. Mine eats any frozen food and hasn't bothered my large feather duster. My wrasses got all the small hitch hiker feather dusters long ago.