Show off your Butt(erflies)!!

[luckydud13]

I got all three two years ago at the LFS here in Charlotte. All of the fish in there are from there. Some local think they're a little high, but I've had good luck and don't mind paying for healthy stock.

Fintastic?

 

[tcmfish]

I once had a 200g tank just full of big butterflies.
They included:
Lunulas
Aurigas
Madagascariensis
Kleini
Blackburni
Unimaculatus
Marleyi
Vagabundus

Most were almost full grown.

I had fished the majority of them off the Harbour entrance pier using a tiny no:20 hook with pink prawn as bait.

They all got on pretty well, fed well and generally thrived.
I do remember a spate of white spot which I had to treat with copper. After some time I returned them all to the sea. There were no bought fish in the system with them and I had only used natural sea water, dead base rock and coral sand in the system, so no chance of reintroduced pathogens etc into the local environment.

Sounds awesome! Got any pics at all? Would love to see 'em.

 

[AfricaOffroad]

Sounds awesome! Got any pics at all? Would love to see 'em.

Will dig around in my old pics and see if I can find some.
Unfortunately, this was about 15 years ago, lots of my old pics got lost with moves, time etc.

In more recent matters, caught a nice palm size Lunula with my nets on Saturday. Will put some pics of it up as a consolation prize.
Give me a day or two.

 

[skraj011]

Loving these butterflies, guys. I wish my water was cool enough for some of these.

Had some fun taking more pictures tonight. Sorry if this is boring because they're the same fish, but who doesn't like pictures...?

My yellow heads are in the display now.

The dusky has really warmed up to me, eating from my hands and will even bite my fingers looking for something to eat. She begs for food all day long, and is getting quite fat as I can't resist her pleas. She also ate ALL of my corals, but I forgive her.

those are beautiful butterflies! Do any of the online vendors carry them?

 

[LukFox]

those are beautiful butterflies! Do any of the online vendors carry them?

LA DD has been listing dusky butterflies with some frequency lately, maybe 1-2 a month. I'm not sure if they'll get more, but I would probably wait a bit and see. Dusky butterflies are hard to get eating so I'd recommend a DD specimen. I haven't seen anyone online selling the yellow heads in quite a while unfortunately, and I was lucky enough to get those from a special order through my LFS.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Yes--Fintastic...

 

[AfricaOffroad]

My 2 racoons caught in the last week.
I pulled them out the same pool a few days apart.
They seems to get on quite well although on introduction there was lots of nipping from the first fly and the powder brown went its normal moggy self.
I've found with him you have to blank the tank out, lights off and hang towels over it to totally darken it.

Next morning he is their big mate. Weird sucker.