copperbanded butterfly
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Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
It's really going to depend on what fish you already have in the aquarium.
bosborn1
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I have no problem getting them to live in QT. I have had more than one that will take frozen food. Once I add them to the display tank the tangs go after them. Tried many different way to acclimate them but it always ends up the same. They get stressed and stop eating or the yellow tang beats them to death. After 3 I have decided to stop trying and stop killing fish that I can not keep heathly in a reef tank.
Heres a pic of one that i added while trying to bring my tank back into good condition. BTW the flatworms and the cyno is mostly gone now.
You can see the scars on the fish from where the yellow tang assualted him.
Scott
Heres a pic of one that i added while trying to bring my tank back into good condition. BTW the flatworms and the cyno is mostly gone now.
You can see the scars on the fish from where the yellow tang assualted him.
Scott
Capt_Cully
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a cheap alternative is peppermint shrimp. i had some aptaisias, put in two peps and the annihilated ALL of the aptaisias. Still have one or two in my sump, but they haven't been a problem.
had a CBB by the way. 2 years old, adopted from a friend, starved to death on me in a month. Major downer. Beautiful fish. Just couldn't get him to eat. Tried alot of remedies too. My 2cents, good luck w/ whatever you choose.
had a CBB by the way. 2 years old, adopted from a friend, starved to death on me in a month. Major downer. Beautiful fish. Just couldn't get him to eat. Tried alot of remedies too. My 2cents, good luck w/ whatever you choose.
I love copperbands, probably my favorite fish of all time, so far. From what I'm able to gather from other threads and with my own experience, it should last about 2 years or a little more. Provided you can get them to eat. This may or may not be a reason to not choose one. A short average lifespan is sad.
I did have a change just before my copperband died. I traded out tangs. The two didn't fight but I wonder if the new tang didn't let it eat as much. After the "autopsy" it did look skinny at the very bottom of its stomach.
Good luck with your decision Jimmer.
I did have a change just before my copperband died. I traded out tangs. The two didn't fight but I wonder if the new tang didn't let it eat as much. After the "autopsy" it did look skinny at the very bottom of its stomach.
Good luck with your decision Jimmer.
I've got 2 CBB's in a 400 G tank and they seem to be doing fine. They are eating stuff from the rocks but I have yet to see them touch a single apstia in my apstia farm.
I also have 1/2 dozen peppermint shrimp as well as 4 berghi nudibrancs, and I STILL have my huge apstia farm. I'm to the point know of pulling rocks a little at a time and power washing them off. So far so good, it seems to get rid of them.
I've got some large tangs in the tank and they don't even take a second look at the CBB's. The place I got them rom had them for a few weeks and they were eating fine in their tanks. Hopefully soon they will take a liking to the apstia in the tank.
I also have 1/2 dozen peppermint shrimp as well as 4 berghi nudibrancs, and I STILL have my huge apstia farm. I'm to the point know of pulling rocks a little at a time and power washing them off. So far so good, it seems to get rid of them.
I've got some large tangs in the tank and they don't even take a second look at the CBB's. The place I got them rom had them for a few weeks and they were eating fine in their tanks. Hopefully soon they will take a liking to the apstia in the tank.
Myself I have a pair and The trick to them in getting them to eat, but if you want them to live longer than a year or two then you really must provide them with the proper diet as in angels and tangs all fish need there own proper diet in order to survive. For copperbands their diet really has to contain some type of worms, ie black or bloodworms. Please don't get this fish just to get ride of pest anemones, there are other methods of riding your tank of those, get a copperband because you want a copperband. As for the Naso, I wouldn't worry to much about that, as in its completelya different shape, Naso usually are quite passive fish as far as tangs go, I can see why a yellow or such would go after a CB as simliar shape. But still, QT and then best to add the new fish in the middle of the night when everything has gone to bed, I have had amazing success with this.
I will be getting another butterfly, by the way, just letting the system age and the fanworms to recover. I will try the blood worm trick too. It did eat the frozen food but it had to learn to eat from the water column which was awkward for it at first. I think now in the bigger tank a butterfly would have an easier time of eating because of the shear volume of food that is dropped in at once, it takes a while for all the food to be eaten.
bosborn1
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I also would love to get another one..But I can't sentance another CBB to die. I have never had a problem getting them to eat bloodworms and mysis in QT, they will even eat in the display tank. However as soon as the Yellow and Hippo Tang notice them then its on. They attack until they kill it. If anyone has any ideas on how to better acclimate this fish into my display I would love to hear them.
Thanks
Scott
Thanks
Scott
