From your experience what is the most reef safe butterflyfish?

[flash99]

I know butterfly are one of the those fish that are almost impossible to keep in reefs.

 

[snorvich]

Yellow pyramid butterfly fish are the closest to being reef safe

 

[thelizardkin]

I have a copper banded never had any trouble

 

[snorvich]

I have a copper banded never had any trouble

Then you are lucky. Some are, some are not.

 

[lionfish300]

Yellow pyramid butterfly fish, I have 2 for awhile now in my 150 mixed reef without any problem

 

[mfish1]

Mitratus
Declivis

 

[Big E]

Muellers copperbands are the best option if you can find one. Mine has never touched or sampled anything from Sps to zoos, LPS,clams, anenome, ect.

They come from mud flat areas of Queensland where corals are not as prevelant.

Muellers will eat all the dusters & worms, so tube worms are the only animals you can't keep with them.

 

[falconut]

I had a Pyramid for a short while and it was fine. Plus, I had a Copperband for a short while too, it didn't bother any corals. I purchased a 4" Blue Maxima Clam and after a week or so, the Copperband was pecking it. So, out it went. So, from my experience, the Pyramid is your best bet.

 

[SDguy]

My yellow longnose hasn't touched anything in my VERY mixed reef.

 

[tmz]

Hemitaurichthys polylepsis,pryarmid butterfly. I've had one in a mixed reef for about 5 years. No nipping at all.

 

[jd474]

Hemitaurichthys polylepis is your best bet. I've also kept about a dozen C. rostratus, quite a few H. diphreutes, multiple C. ulietensis, and F. flavissimus in mixed reefs, and several C. lunula in sps ONLY tanks, with great success. Some of these will be on an individual basis, however.