Experienced with your copperbanded butterfly
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Freed
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There is no one answer for you. Some have had great success with them in their reef tanks, not bothering a thing but also eating aiptasia. Others report their CBB eating or picking at some of their corals and clams while not eating aiptasia. Others still report theirs ate all their aiptasia but then died after it was all gone because it wouldn't eat any prepared foods. It's really just hit or miss on the one you get but make sure if/when you do get one that it is readily eating at the LFS right in front of you whether it's frozen brine shrimp or mysis or some other type of food. These are the ones that will usually make it when you get it home but not always.
Mine did NOT eat any aptasia. Mine did eat pods and tube worms for months until it started to eat mysis and other raw seafoods. It did not eat any coral.
Mine was small at about 1.5 to 2 inches and the 90G tank could sustain it with live microfauna until it got used to eating in captivity. It is not fat, but it is not skinny. It's little tummy seemed full for the first few weeks while it destroyed all of the tube worms. I see it pick at the sand some too, but I have no idea what it is eating.
I have had it 6 months.
I have never seen one eat the the LFS, but I am sure that some do. I bought this one out of the shipping box in the bag. I have a 75G fuge and a SPS reef full of pods and I wanted to get him/her into those tanks ASAP.
This is one fish that I would caution you NOT to expect success with. You might very well have success, but the odds are not good enough to expect it. If you don't have an established tank with enough microfauna to sustain it (worst case that it never eats prepared foods), then I would say that your odds are pretty poor.
Mine was small at about 1.5 to 2 inches and the 90G tank could sustain it with live microfauna until it got used to eating in captivity. It is not fat, but it is not skinny. It's little tummy seemed full for the first few weeks while it destroyed all of the tube worms. I see it pick at the sand some too, but I have no idea what it is eating.
I have had it 6 months.
I have never seen one eat the the LFS, but I am sure that some do. I bought this one out of the shipping box in the bag. I have a 75G fuge and a SPS reef full of pods and I wanted to get him/her into those tanks ASAP.
This is one fish that I would caution you NOT to expect success with. You might very well have success, but the odds are not good enough to expect it. If you don't have an established tank with enough microfauna to sustain it (worst case that it never eats prepared foods), then I would say that your odds are pretty poor.
Blazer88
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Mine was eating Mysis at the LFS before I brought it home. He didn't take any time to get settled and ate everything I put into the tank. He never bothered a single coral and was an excellent fish. Then, after nine perfect months, he stopped eating and died days later. This seems to be a common story and I've decided never to get another one. I really *thought* mine was going to be different, but nope. I think they are better left in the ocean.
Waxxiemann
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mine ate all of my aptasia and now only eats blood worms and live mussles.
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