My expreince with Chelmon Rostratus / Copperband

[Ted_C]

Ted, how's the copper band? I have been working on this for over a month.

Eating pellets and brine/mysid. Goes wild for bloodworms.

Nice! The copperband is doing outstanding in the display tank. Chases food and has become one of the bigger pigs of the tank. As far as I can see - he loves the frozen mysis and something in the LRS reef frenzy.

My feeding routine:
Morning: 1/2 block of PE Mysis, 1/2 block of Bloodworms, around 1/2" square section of LRS Reef Frenzy
Afternoon: 12:00 and 2:30 PM Autofeeding of a mix of Dainichi Baby Sinking Pellets and Spectra Thera A
Evening: 1/2 block of Mysis, 1/2 block of Reef Cavier, 1/2" square section of LRS Feeding Frenzy
Every two days I feed a 1/4 sheet of Nori. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday I feed a tablespoon each of Reef Nutrition Live Phyto, Oyster Eggs and Rotifiers.

That's all shared with: 2 Ocellaris Clownfish, 2 Barrier reef Chromis, 1 Bangaii Cardinal, 1 Copperband Butterfly, 1 Hippo Tang, 1 Sailfin Tang, 1 Tomini Tang, 7 Lyretail Anthias (6 Female 1 Male), 1 Swallowtail Angelfish, 1 Helfrichi Dartfish, 1 Purple Dartfish, one skunk cleaner shrimp

 

[asmodyus]

Is the qt tank a reef (is there a substantial pod life in tank)? He might be eating pods and other worms. In my experience if alternative food is available they will eat it. For aptasia issue I would place him in tank with less pods and peel some off from display and let him go a bit hungry. They will take to it. Or stop bloodworms for a week. Seems your tank has a few anems. Becareful he might take a liking to them if hungry.

Yeah its my overflow of softies from my main tank.

Ok I will try and pull some Aptasia from the display and feed it to him have plenty of them lol.

 

[bigzman]

 

[Ted_C]

I lost my Buddy today. I named him Bob almost a year ago - his was a funny personality in the tank - always following you around - begging to be fed. When feeding - he always tried to stick his snout up the turkey baster to get the prime bits before they went into the tank. he was my third copperband.

I have no idea what did him in. Maybe the barrier reef chromis. Maybe the Desjardin Tang. I really dont know. He was eating fine last night - all energetic. Didn't eat this morning - was in his usual hiding spot up near the top of the tank.

I recently introduced 200 red legged hermits to deal with some stubborn algae on the bare bottom and 6 banded gobies on saturday. Yesterday - I found three of the gobies dead (two in the tank on power heads - one was a jumper). Today - it was bob stuck to a power head.

I transferred Bob to the quarantine tank to see if he recovers but the chances are not great.

 

[JonezNReef]

Sorry to hear that. I had just got my CBB through treatment and QT where I was able to get him to eat like a pig and he had quickly become my favorite fish but he ended up jumping the only time I forgot to put my top back on the tank.
Now I’m back to square one with a new CBB going through TTM at the moment. But he doesn’t seem to have quite the personality the other one did

 

[Safir]

Very sad. Ours ate frozen and pellets, but my wife was so stingy with feeding while I was away (she was very afraid of overfeeding) it starved

 

[bigzman]

4 year cbb

4 year cbb

Sorrry to hear about your loss. Here is an update on this method. So far using this method I have a morish idol that is a master in my tank. He was only eaten worms for a 2months. He now eats pellets as aggressively as the tangs. He is also mean but that's good as he has 5much large fish. I also got a potters angel to with this same method. Yes I also still have my cbb. I will post video

 

[Ted_C]

I was thinking about this: I'm probably to blame here. remember how I mentioned I had some algae issues and got a lot of crabs to clean it up?

Well, at the same time I had stopped the nori feedings (once every two days). I've never seen Bob eat the nori - I've seen him sniffing around it alot - like he was looking for critters - but never actually seen him nipping at it. Maybe he was eating it after I had left the room.

He passed last night in my quarantine. He just got beat up to much to make it. He was very skinny - I could feel the rib cage bones through his body.

Theres a couple reasons I stopped the nori: The TLF clip that I used to feed it was starting to rust - releasing heavy metals into the tank and I figured with all the GHA I had popping up - there was no need for it - since the tangs and angel could eat the GHA. Guess I was wrong.

 

[bigzman]

Mine goes nuts for nori