My new Copperband Butterfly...

[Freed]

Want to know how your copperband fared when you got it. Just got mine yesterday and is doing just OK at the moment. Eating a few frozen brine shrimp here and there and also a few frozen mysis and is also foraging thru the QT tank trying to find other stuff to eat besides the brine shrimp and the mysis. Please feel free to share your experiences with the rest of us. Thanks, Jeff

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

Pictures??

 

[Project Reef]

Holy poll options batman!

 

[dhoch]

rather than retyping this whole thing... I'll just link to other thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=774333

Mine ate all my apstasia as well.

Dave

 

[Freed]

I wanted to make sure and cover a variety of scenarios unlike other polls that only give one or two options. Thanks for the input so far. Keep em coming.

 

[Gobie]

You forgot....
My copperband ate all my aptaisas and tube worms and then starved to death because he wouldnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t eat prepared food.

Thatââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s what mine did. I had enough aptasias and tube worms to keep him alive for over a year once they were gone he died.

 

[Freed]

I'm going to try to get mine to eat both prepared foods and also aiptaisia at will in my QT before I move him to the main tank(s).

 

[vgibbens]

Mine ate all the Aptasia and featherdusters, but will only eat PE mysis, nothing else.

 

[Freed]

Come on people. There have to be more out there that have Copperbands. Tell us your experiences. Mine is eating more mysis today and have been offering food to him roughly every 3-4 hours or so. Getting more hopeful with every piece that he eats. Please share everyone. Thanks.

 

[raddogz]

I got fish on Tuesday, and I think it's eating. It seems to be active at night, right now it's hiding in the overhang/cave.

I caught it nipping the feeding tentacles from a green candy can coral....grrrrrrr.

 

[Freed]

Come on, there have to be more folks with Copperbands. Give us the scoop on yours. Thanks again.

 

[Freed]

Come on, there have to be more folks with Copperbands. Give us the scoop on yours. Thanks againk.

 

[Freed]

Bumpin for some more input from y'all. Thanks.

 

[cheeks69]

Well I've had 3 CBB's with different experiences so just can't vote for one option

My first CBB didn't eat at the store but I thought "I can change his ways" and brought him home and even though I tried every food imaginable he refused to eat anything prepared and since I didn't have any aptasia or featherdusters he perished

My second CBB ate at the LFS mysis and I thought very cool, brought him home and he would eat anything I added to the tank and never bothered any corals, but he liked to sleep by the Seio ph and one morning I found him plastered around the intake when I rescued him he was very weak and died the next day

My last CBB ate at the LFS mysis shrimp so I brought him home and he would eat Brine, Mysis scallop and shrimp and would nibble on tmy homemade mush, he would actually eat out of my hand but one day it decided to stop eating grew weak and died

Needless to say I won't be getting anymore CBB's

Here's a pic of me feeding my CBB scallop:

Here's

 

[Freed]

Darn that's too bad. Thanks for sharing though.

 

[raddogz]

Well after trying PE Mysis (no go), frozen gut-loaded brine shrimp (no go), frozen mysis (no go), frozen home-made fish food mash (no go), and fresh clams (no go). Finally, scallops (defrosted from the supermarket - can't find sea scallops but could find bay scallops) seem to be the ticket.

It ate three pieces, and didn't show much interest in the rest (apparently the other fish like scallops well - so they dined on the rest).

Progress finally....

 

[tryffin]

My spouse has one in a 70, we got her when she was about 1" and she's more than doubled in since since September. She ate all the small fanworms immediately and spent alot of time picking pods off the liverock. Fairly quickly she'd eat PE mysis (the cube pack but not the flatpack, oddly) but only pieces of a certain size and only pieces that appeared to have heads on them. She started eating brine fairly soon after that. Last month we bought a couple live mussles from the grocery store and she and the 6line had fun picking at it....

She's a pretty happy little creature ... but it took alot of patience at first when feeding her, she's a slow and deliberate eater and some of the other fish are little piggies (especially the chalk bass) so it takes some time (and overfeeding of the tank lol) to make sure she can pick out pieces at her leisure.

Oh, she's never touched any of the aiptasias, at least that I've seen, but that might be because of her small size.

 

[davocean]

CBB, one of my very favorite fish, but one of those that I never had good luck keeping for a long time.
I always ask lfs to feed before buying, so no problem w/ eating prepd food.
Still, after months they would get a sucked in stomach and die.
Maybe when I'm old and retired and have time to spot feed 3
times a day and keep constant watch I'll try one again, but until then I'm done with them.
I wish anyone who has one the best of luck, they are beautiful

 

[fishykid9212]

I got mine today hopefully I can get it to eat, sorry this is after a sand storm
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[Freed]

Here's mine: