Show off your Butt(erflies)!!

[jonnybravo22]

When I searched for "Mitratus" i got only a dozen or so results and most were from years ago. Are there no threads on beautiful butterfly fishes? well there should be.

Show all your butterflies! I want to see Chaetodons of all varieties. Love that group. So bring us your declivis, your tinkerii, your burgessi, and your mitratus. show us your butts!

I'll start.

Here's my burgessi (Burgess Butterfly)

 

[tcmfish]

Nice Fish! I really think they are under appreciated, but people seem to be getting into the rarer varieties more. Hopefully more people chime in. I don't have any or I'd post some pics.

Not my fish, just wish I could have purchased it, at the LFS. I move around too much at school to have fish just for fun:

 

[Sigmund]

Here is my CopperBand:

 

[Jacob D]

Nice fish guys. I miss my aya... I lost quite a few butterflies in a crash earlier this year. I'm butterfly-less currently. Here are of older pics that I was able to find... if I dig around I can probably find some more.

 

[Jacob D]

Tim, did you get that one last year when the waters were cold?


edit: nevermind. I need to read instead of just looking at the pretty pics

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

 

[LukFox]

I'm sad that this thread died so quickly... I love the pictures so far. Here's a bump for ya.

My longnose:

Dusky (Chaetodon flavirostris):

My pair of yellow heads (Chaetodon xanthocephalus) that are still in QT. They should be ready in another week or two. I've had them a while.

Smaller one, but it's also the dominant one:

Larger one:

Originally I only wanted one yellow head, but they're hard enough to find as it is and when I found a pair I couldn't say no.

 

[Jacob D]

The yellow heads are a beautiful and underrated butterfly, yours look great. The dusky is very nice too. Do you have them in a FO system?

 

[LukFox]

The yellow heads are a beautiful and underrated butterfly, yours look great. The dusky is very nice too. Do you have them in a FO system?

They're in a planted (several species of macro in there currently) FOWLR and lately I've been trying to add corals. I have some simple ones like mushrooms and GSP in there so far. These corals have not been harmed ...yet. I'm going to see how the yellow heads treat the corals before adding anything else. Between the butterflies and angels I'm not sure how brave I can be. I'm thinking about buying some small frags as a present to myself.

 

[jonnybravo22]

My Burgess and Mitratus

 

[Sharkkeeper]

nice butterflies everyone!

 

[iceh]

beautiful butterflies! How does your mitratus fair with sps, I would imagine he would ignore them...

 

[flameangel88]

Here are some old pictures

 

[NomiGold]

Everyones butt(terfly)s look fantastic! :fun2: I love me some butterflies. I can already tell I am going to be living vicariously through this thread!

 

[LukFox]

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.

 

[saleen2881]

hey can i keep differnt types of butterflies in the same tank?

 

[Mrbeachbum2]

WHere did you get those beautiful pyrimadal (sp) butterflys?

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

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.

 

[sTefaniA]

my copperband

 

[AfricaOffroad]

hey can i keep differnt types of butterflies in the same tank?

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.