How to get a CBB to eat aptasia?

[hnnhflns]

Chris brought home a beautiful Copperband Butterfly over a month ago. It is healthy and swims well. She is ~4 inches long and aside from acting like a complete dummy she is perfectly healthy.

Most people have a problem trying to get their CBB to eat any frozen foods once the Aptasia is gone from the tank, we have the opposite problem:

How do you get a CBB to eat aptasia? She is eating flakes, frozen, and pellets, but not the Aptasia like we wanted.


I am usually the one who gets into the tank with the Aptasia-X and kills them all simply out of spite and justice, but I haven't been able to kneel since my surgery.

 

[lynchmob3000]

One morning you will check the tank and won't see a single aptasia. That's what happened to my aptasia and I think it took the cb about 2 months to get the taste. Bad thing is after it ate all the aptasia it didn't care for frozen anymore and starved. Hope this isn't the case with yours. Gl

 

[79chopperdr]

I've kept to the CBB in a acclimation box and added a piece of LR with aptasia.

+1 to the fact they will just all be gone one day too. Bummer is they will all come back in the same spots once the CBB is gone.

 

[cflow]

I got a CBB a few weeks back not knowing what i got myself into. I never had aptasia but it did eat all my amphipods. The first food i got it to eat was live blackworms. It loves them. It occasionally will take frozen blood worms and mysis. The problem for me is i don't like keeping live food. I found that it will eat freshly frozen black worms, so i can buy worms and just put them in the freezer. It is just a pain catering to its needs. It is a nice looking fish though.