Copperband Won't Eat

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I recently aquired a Copperband Butterflyfish for my 55 reef to help control aptasia. 3 days later i havent seen him eat a thing, aptasia or food. he appears active and none of the other fish are agressive towards him. he has no signs of disease and overall appears very healthy. any thoughts or suggestions?
 
I would keep a note on where the aptasia are and see if any come missing. Overall just give him time to get fully comfortable in the new home.
 
did you get this fish at a local fish shop? If so, did you see it eat there?
Copperbands are a total crap shoot. Some eat, some dont. They are definitly NOT the answer to aiptasia.
 
This may or may not be the case with yours, but when I got mine, I didn't see him eat either, I had an infestation of Aiptasia, I would see him in the early morning and when the lights went out, going around and pecking at the rock and coral bases. I never really noticed a decreased number of Aip.(probably a month in and remember I had them everywhere), until one day it dawned on me, that is what he was doing in the morning and at night, and since then it has basically eradicated them from my system. So just keep an eye on it, if you see it being active when the lights are out(room lights on though, sometimes) or in the morning, that just may be what it is up to. Good luck with it, I hope mine continues to do well, I think it has been in the tank for over 4 months now, and it does seem to eat the other frozen food I feed the fish(Emerald Entree and frozen cyclopeze, sometimes some vitamins mixed in(maybe once a week at reduced bottle recommendations)). Good luck with yours, I hope it does the trick for your problem.
Matt
 
The copper band should be isolated to a quarantine tank until you getting him eating properly. Some will eat brine and mysis shrimp others won't eat at all.
If you can find some live black worms this might do the trick.
 
I've read in a reef mag that packing brine or mysis into an old hermit crab shell and sticking that in the rockwork can coax them to eat. Blackworms are also useful, but they're hard to obtain.

Sometimes it's as simple as feeding them in the right time of day.
 
Mysis and blood worms seem to be the diet of choice for most CBB. Particularly the blood worms.

Good luck

HTH

Spleify
 
Not much to add, but Ive have had a few cb over the years, everyone of them took care of the aiptasia but only about half would eat after that. Never tried black worms, the ones that ate for me ate brine. good luck
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14677660#post14677660 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
The copper band should be isolated to a quarantine tank until you getting him eating properly. Some will eat brine and mysis shrimp others won't eat at all.
If you can find some live black worms this might do the trick.

Yep. And only some will eat aiptasia; others will ignore it.
 
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