New copperband
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Reef1ruler
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Boy are you lucky!!! It took me weeks to get my copperband eating frozen, he would just nibble on live brine until he finally gave in. Beautiful fish btw!
apercele79
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i am so jealous, i never got my copperbands to eat and lost a couple of them eventually. I would love to be able to keep one
Lucky Lefty
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Internet fist bump coming at you! One week ago today I picked up a cbb and he has been actively hunting, eating aiptasia, and gobbling up hikari and pe mysis like a champ. He jumps right in the pack and start pounding down mysis.
I feel very lucky as well.
My aiptasia dont feel so lucky. He's eaten almost all of the baby aiptasia, and devoured about 8 of the big ones in the rockwork!
I feel very lucky as well.
My aiptasia dont feel so lucky. He's eaten almost all of the baby aiptasia, and devoured about 8 of the big ones in the rockwork!
You are lucky. I subjectively place your odds at about 1 in 5. Hopefully he is also one of the coral safe ones.
Lucky Lefty
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From what I experienced at the fish store, it was 1 in 4 so I figured it had to be a 20% (1 in 5, i know) success rate or possibly worse based on all of the things I've read about them. The other 3 cbb in the other tanks were frightened, not eating, and breathing heavily.
When I was looking around before I left the store and spotted this guy in another tank, I saw him scanning the rock and sand going from a 12 o'clock to 6 oclock position.. I knew he was hunting. Something I've never seen in all of the cbb's I've ever seen in an lfs.
When I saw him attack the pe mysis I had the guy squirt into the tank, I knew I uncovered a gem, watched him for a few more minutes and it was a no brainer at that point.
I have a lot of acans in my tank, as well as a good amount of soft coral and he hasn't touched any of it (knocking on wood).
One of my rocks has a 10" x 8" bush of palys, that had 2 or 3 big aiptasia sticking out of them.. well, as of today, they are gone and the aiptasia on the rock next to it is 90% gone and palys are untouched.
At the rate he's eaten the aiptasia I'm starting to think I should grow some *purposely* to keep him fed. Or offer a rock cleaning service
I don't know if he's just skinny from transport and sitting in the lfs, but I've been watching his belly to see if it fills up, but it's stayed pretty flat. Not sunken in, but I was expecting a bulging stomach after eating all day like he has been. My other fish all have big bellies by the end of the day.
Do these fish eat enough to get thanksgiving tummy? Especially after seeing how much aiptasia he ate I was expecting a swollen gut, but no.
Actually managed to get a profile shot
Lucky Lefty
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For some reason the photos posted sideways, but they are supposed to be vertical. Not sure how to fix that.
Very nice! Good to hear others are having luck as well. Mine hasn't touched a polyp or coral as of yet either so I'm knocking on wood with yaFrom what I experienced at the fish store, it was 1 in 4 so I figured it had to be a 20% (1 in 5, i know) success rate or possibly worse based on all of the things I've read about them. The other 3 cbb in the other tanks were frightened, not eating, and breathing heavily.
When I was looking around before I left the store and spotted this guy in another tank, I saw him scanning the rock and sand going from a 12 o'clock to 6 oclock position.. I knew he was hunting. Something I've never seen in all of the cbb's I've ever seen in an lfs.
When I saw him attack the pe mysis I had the guy squirt into the tank, I knew I uncovered a gem, watched him for a few more minutes and it was a no brainer at that point.
I have a lot of acans in my tank, as well as a good amount of soft coral and he hasn't touched any of it (knocking on wood).
One of my rocks has a 10" x 8" bush of palys, that had 2 or 3 big aiptasia sticking out of them.. well, as of today, they are gone and the aiptasia on the rock next to it is 90% gone and palys are untouched.
At the rate he's eaten the aiptasia I'm starting to think I should grow some *purposely* to keep him fed. Or offer a rock cleaning service
I don't know if he's just skinny from transport and sitting in the lfs, but I've been watching his belly to see if it fills up, but it's stayed pretty flat. Not sunken in, but I was expecting a bulging stomach after eating all day like he has been. My other fish all have big bellies by the end of the day.
Do these fish eat enough to get thanksgiving tummy? Especially after seeing how much aiptasia he ate I was expecting a swollen gut, but no.
Actually managed to get a profile shot
Good job , I actually just realized the few aptasia I did have aren't there anymore lol Hope the luck keeps up for ya
Dkuhlmann
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I figured this out the other day. When we take pictures with our cell phone we have the phone vertical and when we take video's with the cell phone we do likewise. The phone was designed to take pictures horizontal the same way that they are viewed.
My avatar for example when I first took the picture I held my phone vertical as I always do when taking a picture and it looks perfectly fine on my phone and other peoples phones who view it. This is because all phones are made to view pictures in a normal viewing position when held vertical. I retook the picture with my phone held horizontal and now it's in the proper position when posting it on a computer.
There is this video I came across on the net one day called Vertical Video Syndrome. Have you noticed when you see many videos that people take on their phone the view is skinny and not normal wide screen? Well that is because the phone was held vertical instead of horizontal and well, just watch the video :headwally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
