Muelleri Butterfly with Dendros and Rhyzo??

[slojmn]

I am thinking about getting a Muelleri Butterfly from DD if it is still available. I am wondering how it might do with my dendros and Rhyzo?? I have another tank to move the corals to without much problem but would rather not if I could get away with it. Any thoughts??

 

[denash24]

I was soooooo tempted to get one too, let us know how it goes if you get it.

 

[aquaph8]

Mines just about to come out of QT. Not sure how he'll behave yet but worth a little sacrifice IMO, beautiful fish. DD still has one left.

 

[64Ivy]

I've had mine in with both. No issues. They ARE very individualistic though.

 

[slojmn]

I've had mine in with both. No issues. They ARE very individualistic though.

Thanks for the info. BTW, your pic of your Muelleri is gorgeous . I decided to get the guy from DD. I plan on leaving the two corals in the tank at first and see what happens. My guess is that the dendros may be the most at risk. The Rhyzo will surely close up and show it is being bothered and I can move it. I'll be getting the Muelleri on Tuesday, Can't wait .

How's your tank doing?? Hope all is well :rollface:

 

[SDguy]

My biggest concern would be feeding the corals. My fish are notorious for pulling food out of LPS. I could never keep any NPS LPS in my tank.

 

[64Ivy]

How's your tank doing?? Hope all is well :rollface:

Doing fine. In the midst of fragging and restocking; my rite of late autumn.

Peter makes a good point though. Normally I target feed my corals after lights out. The fish is still awake and picking then too but it seems that by the time it's done taking food that escapes into the water column, the LPS has pretty much gotten what it wants.

 

[suta4242]

IMO the Muellers is a very low risk..... unless you do this:

My biggest concern would be feeding the corals. My fish are notorious for pulling food out of LPS. I could never keep any NPS LPS in my tank.

Agree 100%. Butterflys and angels are really quick learners. Also, we don't feed them anywhere near the optimum amount / quality of foodstuffs, so when they see you doing this...well....its all downhill from there.

IME they will then continually harass the coral whenever they're hungry as they now associate it with food.:thumbdown


HTH.

 

[slojmn]

I only target feed my Rhyzo rarely and then only after lights are out. Both the Rhyzo and dendro are in the path of the food and get tidbits regularly everyday as the food falls on them in the water flow. It has worked out remarkably well. No fish bothers either of them to this point. I may still, in time, decide to move the two corals to my other tank. We shall see. the new fish arrives tomorrow .

 

[slojmn]

So far, one week, the Muelleri is leaving the dendros and Rhyzo alone. I have not brought any undo attention to the corals, hehehehe.

 

[aquaph8]

The only coral Ive seen mine nip is my stylo but the damage seems to be minimal.