How to keep it?

[mohd]

I am new in Butterfly fish... so far, I keep Andaman butterfly and blackback butterfly. Can anyone tell me how to keep it in long term? What do they eat? can i feed them with Brineshirmp in botton liquid form or some zoophanton in powder form?

 

[bertoni]

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Those the fish?

The blackback (Chaetodon melannotus) should be fed a good variety of foods (like most fish). I like frozen foods best, Forumla 1 and Cyclop-Eeze being two examples.

The Andaman (C. andamanensis) is reported to be an obligate stony coral polyp eater. If that's the case for your fish, you can't feed it.

Both fish will eat corals, so they're not reef-safe.

 

[mohd]

I feed them with Brine Shrimp fresh ( Natural Formula ).... I just notify that like a shirmp but very small attaching to the tank side and rock. but i moving quickly my butterfly try to eat them from the rock....
What is that? Can butterfly survive with such small things in my tank?

 

[bertoni]

You likely saw an amphipod. A google search should turn up lots of pictures, or you could look at the id pages on www.melevsreef.com<b></b>. I doubt that the butterfly will find enough of them to keep going in that size tank. It's actually pretty small for those animals, I think.

 

[mohd]

My butterfly fish just only 1 inch long... that they picked such small thing in the tank side and the rock surface.....

 

[bertoni]

They might do reasonably well for a while. Small fish sometimes have a different diet than the adults.

 

[mohd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6918079#post6918079 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bertoni
They might do reasonably well for a while. Small fish sometimes have a different diet than the adults.

I try to feed them with OCEAN NUTRITION FORMULA 1 but they do not pick the pellets from the middle but after it all sinking. How do you think by this?

 

[bertoni]

That's a good-quality food, IMO. You could also try some of the frozen Formula 1, if available. If the fish prefer to eat off the bottom, that's fine. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[mohd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6933327#post6933327 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bertoni
That's a good-quality food, IMO. You could also try some of the frozen Formula 1, if available. If the fish prefer to eat off the bottom, that's fine. I wouldn't worry about it.

Just take a time to find out such frozen food in Thailand, People in Thailand just cut a cat hole to avoid keeping anglefish or butterfly...
What's the reason I join this forum, because the knowleage of the keepers in Thailand only from the vendors they did buy the fish..!
Most of my friends here just keep saying that keeping butterfly and anglefish all impossible but I need to try. I have never believed any word of the venders or pet shops here...

 

[bertoni]

Some butterfly fish are impossible to keep. Probably some angelfish are, too, but one of the species you have is a good choice, IMO. Lots of people are successful with butterflyfish and angelfish.

 

[mohd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6939001#post6939001 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bertoni
Some butterfly fish are impossible to keep. Probably some angelfish are, too, but one of the species you have is a good choice, IMO. Lots of people are successful with butterflyfish and angelfish.

Thank that a good sound for me.....