Coradion butterflies

[SDguy]

Does anyone have experience with these fish? I recently passed on two very nice looking Coradion melanopus due to lack of QT space, and am kind of regretting it. I've read, though they are shy, they are not difficult feeders. True?

 

[tcmfish]

I don't have any first hand experience BUT I like those fish! :lol:

 

[SDguy]

Yeah, they were available the same time I picked up my pair of yellow long noses, so I didn't really want to deal with 4 new butterflies, especially with 2 being unknown as captives.

 

[AquaKnight]

I bought the TwoSpot that was on DD for the longest time. He took to mysis and shredded scallops quickly, expected from a DD fish... Wasn't really shy, at least around a Heniochus and a Potters wrasse.

Him eating





He was received a little underweight, fine with the time he was on DD. However he had flukes, which cleared right up with a round of Prazi. Saddest part of the story is that he was lost about a month later, a heater malfunctioned in QT cooking the tank. I lost him and a very cool Heniochus chrysostomus I have never seen available again in the hobby. Funny enough a Potter's Leopard wrasse made it through completely unscathed.

 

[tcmfish]

I have seen those Heniochus chrysostomus here in florida a few times. Cool fish! The ones we have had in don't seem hard to care for and one we have kept at school has been living on prepared foods for a couple years now.

 

[SDguy]

A LFS had a pair of those heni's. They were HUGE, and very impressive, but no one bought them.

 

[ShrimpChipGal]

I read that they eat small crustaceans on sponges. Perhaps, we should get some sponges with them next time we see them.

 

[clippo]

I've been after a C. melanopus for about 18 months now. My LFS did manage to get two in a few months ago but both had WS and weren't feeding when I visited so I held off. They lost both of them in the next few days.

Not sure if they are 100% reefsafe.... Scott Michael reports them to feed on sponges and there is a risk with stony corals (and clams probably).

 

[SDguy]

Thought I'd revive this thread, since I've been seeing a few on LADD lately, and I know the wholesalers have been getting them semi-regularly. Anyone have some success with this genus?