two copperbands?

[foster200]

I just gave CCBs another try. Last month I lost one (lasted two weeks), I love these fish and cant resist trying again. First day and still not eating, which, as i understand, is normal. question: should i buy another one to keep him company... strength in numbers? I want him to survive. He is in my 180 gallon tank with plenty of pods, so food shouldnt be an issue. I do not have aiptasia, which is good for me but bad for him. What do you think? two?

 

[mrwilson]

Almost certainly a bad idea in a 180 to add another CBB. You might try live blackworms, which many copperbands seem to eat.

 

[foster200]

where do you get them? I havent seen these being sold at my lfs. Do you generally order these online? I just did a search for live mysis shrimp a second ago, couldnt find any. Am thinking about setting up a secondary tank to harvest my 4 pregnant shrimps offsprings. also to grow more. specifically for my CBB

 

[username in use]

Ive heard that butterfly's do better in mated pairs and will exhibit behavior that they wouldnt normally. That being said, it means acquiring a mated pair of copperbands, which I havent ever seen.

 

[phil519]

Almost certainly a bad idea in a 180 to add another CBB. You might try live blackworms, which many copperbands seem to eat.

+1.

foster -

We get them into our club by the pound. The problem with such a size order is that they are difficult to keep alive. This is the site we use:

http://www.aquaticfoods.com/freesamples.html

Maybe some folks in the upstate reef society will split an order with you.

 

[Big E]

Ive heard that butterfly's do better in mated pairs and will exhibit behavior that they wouldnt normally. That being said, it means acquiring a mated pair of copperbands, which I havent ever seen.

No offense, but it's ridiculous & unfounded that they do better in pairs, especially when very few people have BF pairs or have recorded any relavent information regarding this.

Some author of a magazine made this comment about CBB pairs............it's made it to the internet, & now somehow it has become a fact. It's just some guy's opinion who has never kept a pair of CBBs.

If you decided to try a make a pair you have to have control of removal or seperation & for most people that's not a display tank. This can lead to a bad situation that isn't going to help either fish.