gnosticvisions
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From what I see on this forum the Copperband Butterfly is a pretty popular fish, although it has varying degree's of success I have decided to purchase one for my two year old established reef tank. His is the only inhabitant with fins and I have no plans on adding anymore fish, I have read they do best is a species only tank and since they are territorial and aggressive towards thier own species I figured that this means if you want one then it should be your only fish and to be honest I dont have any desire to keep anything but mine alone to improve its chances of survival. I dont think the water quality will be an issue since I do a minimum of 10% water change every week, although I am tempted to experiment with smaller and more frequent changes the 10% is the minimum. I also have had this tank up and running for two years now and while in the beginning I admit to using municiple water, I have been using R/O for over a year and a half. I think by now my tank is very stable so I wanted to try my hand at the one fish ive really been interested in since I am facinated with the Coperband and I am striving for long term survival. I have noticed a few things over the past 5 days, timid is an understatement! This fish when left completely alone in the room swims around and yet once I enter he darts to the corner and raises his body up, like it intends to breach the water yet stays in that possition. Or he will lay at an extreme angle almost horizontal at the bottom below my candycane coral which leads me to believe one thing, he thinks im a preditor. This happens when I attempt feeding him, yet once I leave the room and trick him into thinking im gone he goes back to swiming around and if im not mistaken he is eating the butterfly fish formula from San Fransico Bay Brand and I mean eat alot of of it. Today I actually put the feeding sirenge up to his face and shot it in front of him and he did take a few bites but once I left the room he started swimming in an almost feeding frenzy. Yet I do want him eating in front of me, so should I continue my current methods or should I buy cyclopese, which I feed my corals and ive read on wetwebmedia that alot of people have success with. Im 90% certain he is eating the food with my trick since no apistasia (not the reason I bought him) or worms in my tank are being eaten, yet im not 100% sure.
