is copperband butterflyfish easy to keep?

[junxu95]

I heard that it is hard to feed it. Is it easy to keep in a reef tank?

 

[bertoni]

They are reported to be finicky eaters and hard to keep alive. They also aren't necessarily reef-safe, depending on the animals you want to keep.

 

[Rock Anemone]

Yes, they can be difficult to get eating so it's very important to make sure that it's eating before you purchase it. They are a 50/50 fish as far as reef safe goes, they have been known to pick at certain corals/inverts. However, some have had excellent luck with keeping them in reef tanks.

 

[mattheadington]

Rather difficult fish to keep, I think wetwebmedia.com reports that about 2% live past a year.

 

[ADA33]

very difficult fish requires very mature tank and did get mine to eat blood worms and mysis

 

[otterpop510]

difficult to keep, mine died within a week, even after i made sure it ate at the lfs over a period of a week there.. didn't pick on any corals/clams but just kinda wasted away..

 

[Freed]

Mine is in the 2% as of Feb. 10th of this year. WOOOHOOOOO!!!

 

[cartouche]

I was very aprehensive when I bought our Copperband, and thought "Oh well. I can but do my best... lets give it a shot"

I've ended up with a fish who will feed from my hand (bits of cockle) also loves bloodworm, mysis, artenia... in fact, he's the greediest fish I have. He's been going strong now for 5 months and the tank is a year old (see profile for spec).

We have a reef set up with lots of softies which he doesn't touch, xenia & mushrooms are safe as well.. He got a bit of hassle from our yellow tang & magestic to start with but now there all mates..

Maybe i'm just really lucky but i'm really pleased with my choice.

Also....Aptasia vanished overnight..:rollface: