FS: Golden Semilarvatus Butterflyfish

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skng2011

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FOR SALE: Golden Semilarvatus Butterflyfish , I've been researching now after the fact and from what everyone is saying/suggesting I am going to part ways with this beauty! I already have him contained and in my tank ready for pick up. RARE , EATS EVERYTHING!!!! $125.00 takes him home!

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I really do not want to sell BUT the more and more I research the less comfortable I am letting it loose in my REEF tank, they say it's a 50/50 chance of being reef safe, just not sure if I wanna take the chance!
 
skng2011 said:
I really do not want to sell BUT the more and more I research the less comfortable I am letting it loose in my REEF tank, they say it's a 50/50 chance of being reef safe, just not sure if I wanna take the chance!
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I'd take the chance. Just keep it well fed, and I bet it would be fine.
Plus the occasional nip here or there won't hurt your corals if it's a healthy system.
 
The Codfather said:
I'd take the chance. Just keep it well fed, and I bet it would be fine.
Plus the occasional nip here or there won't hurt your corals if it's a healthy system.
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+1 ........you think im going to get rid of my BANDIT just because he may or may not nip at things LOL ya right.....this fish is an ABSOLUTE steal ......that is almost wholesale price .....I agree you should keep him as he is so big and eating everything you give him which is usually the challenge with these delicate fish ....once you get past that point which he is its a long term beautiful specimen....+1 for keeping him...you already feed very well
 
mrx66699 said:
+1 ........you think im going to get rid of my BANDIT just because he may or may not nip at things LOL ya right.....this fish is an ABSOLUTE steal ......that is almost wholesale price .....I agree you should keep him as he is so big and eating everything you give him which is usually the challenge with these delicate fish ....once you get past that point which he is its a long term beautiful specimen....+1 for keeping him...you already feed very well
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Ahhhhhhhh I hear what you guys are saying, The fish is absolutely beautiful and dieing to be released into the tank, I am pretty sure if I wanted to catch him once I release him it probably wouldn't be too hard after using that fish trap for the last one . . . . . I think if I have no takers by the weekend , I'll give it a gamble . . . I would just hate to see it munching on my big Frogspawn or my colony of Fruit Loops . . . . Keep you posted!
 
The Codfather said:
I'd take the chance. Just keep it well fed, and I bet it would be fine.
Plus the occasional nip here or there won't hurt your corals if it's a healthy system.
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+1 . . . Thanks for the input! I just might give it a go . . . going to sit on it until the weekend . . . I dropped a small frag of some cheap zoas in the holding container and he hasn't showed any interest in it, could be a good sign!
 
mrx66699 said:
+1 ........you think im going to get rid of my BANDIT just because he may or may not nip at things LOL ya right.....this fish is an ABSOLUTE steal ......that is almost wholesale price .....I agree you should keep him as he is so big and eating everything you give him which is usually the challenge with these delicate fish ....once you get past that point which he is its a long term beautiful specimen....+1 for keeping him...you already feed very well
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BTW . . . . I know that Bandit isn't going ANYWHERE!! LOL
 
Siptang said:
Throw some cheap sacrificial corals in that box to test it. ;)
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He's been in a box since saturday, put a cheap frag in there with about 5 polyps on it and he hasn't touched it .. .. . I think by this Saturday if he is not gone I am going to release him in the tank and take the chance, I have a fish trap on deck!
 
skng2011 said:
He's been in a box since saturday, put a cheap frag in there with about 5 polyps on it and he hasn't touched it .. .. . I think by this Saturday if he is not gone I am going to release him in the tank and take the chance, I have a fish trap on deck!
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What did you do finally? Did it workout?
 
Not only should you keep it, but you should get a bigger tank and ten more semilavartuses so you can have a large school. They like to school and they look phenomenal. Probably like a 400 gal would do, haha.
 
Lol guys this thread is from 2 years ago ...Steve doesnt even have a tank any longer lmao

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