Klien butterfly destroying scans!!!

[Gundo5000]

So I added a klien to get rid of a few apstasia and instead he is focused on destroying my beautiful rainbow acans!

I am curious if anyone else has had this problem with one of them before please tell me if this is normal behavior for them, thanks guys.

 

[SDguy]

I'm not sure where this trend of adding Chaetodon species butterflies to eat nuisance anemones came from, but they are most definitely NOT reef safe around a majority of commonly kept corals, especially LPS.

 

[nikon187]

+1.. IME butterflies love acans, blastos, brains, anything fleshy really. Certainly not reef safe.

 

[pugbreath13]

+2 I tried one last year after hearing how reef safe they were. I QT'd him for two weeks, was eating all types of foods but 10 minutes into the display he went crazy on a brain. It took 3 days to catch him and in that time he ate 2 brains and a few acans. After he gets used to the tank and sleeps in front of the rocks it will be easy to get him out. Just do it in the middle of the night and leave the lights out.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

I'm not sure where this trend of adding Chaetodon species butterflies to eat nuisance anemones came from, but they are most definitely NOT reef safe around a majority of commonly kept corals, especially LPS.

+ 1 dillion.

 

[Jacob D]

attempt at humor

 

[OneArmedBandit]

I'm a collector of butterflies and I don't care what anyone says, NO BUTTERFLY IS REEF SAFE! -Steve

 

[cjtice]

There was an article in a reef Mag. (cant remember which one) that was published last year and they really talked up the Kliens *** being a better choice than CBB for a reef with Aptasia.

I am really glad that I saw this, because I was thinking about one at one time.