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chevyjaxon 02-29-2008 12:45 AM

Copper band butterfly not eating
 
Help i bought a CBB 1 and a half weeks ago hes not eating i tried frozen brine and frozen mysis i tried garlic i tried spectrum pellets i cannot seem to find fresh raw clams or scallops i need help here it seems hes withering away to nothing he should be really hungry by now i dont want him to die

fencer 02-29-2008 12:49 AM

T&T supermarket for clams. Has he been eat glass anenomes?

chevyjaxon 02-29-2008 12:51 AM

no he has not even touched the aiptasia

chevyjaxon 02-29-2008 12:51 AM

BTW where is T&T?

fencer 02-29-2008 12:55 AM

West Edmonton Mall...sorry

super7 02-29-2008 01:03 AM

What fish do you have him with.

chevyjaxon 02-29-2008 01:04 AM

a neon wrasse 5 damsels a tomato clown and the tank bully a yellow tang

super7 02-29-2008 01:10 AM

He may be scared to eat. Mine started eating while I had him QT with no other fish with him.
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...opperband2.jpg

chevyjaxon 02-29-2008 01:19 AM

is it ok to move him to the sump? i have very little lighting there infact all i have is a black light i have no qt tank he does try to give his belly to my crabs which is weird my tang leaves him alone for the most part

Jason McK 02-29-2008 01:32 AM

CBB are really difficult to get eating. Odds are if they are not eating at the LSF they will not eat ever.

Sumps aren't really great places for fish. I'd try Arcti-Pods by Reef Nutrition, mixed with mysis and bryne. My CBB was eating at the LFS but my other fist tought it to eat just about anything. Including flake

J

untamed 02-29-2008 01:36 AM

I killed one of those. I never could get it to eat, in spite of trying everything I could think of.

If you check out the fish longivity records, this fish does pretty poorly.

chevyjaxon 02-29-2008 01:38 AM

killed it? oh no :sad: i dont want it to die he looks so hungry but he wont eat

Borderjumper 02-29-2008 01:48 AM

Mine starved itself to death too. It took about a month. I tried everything I could think of but nothing was food to him. It was a very sad experiance. I feel for you chevy

fishoholic 02-29-2008 03:45 AM

Try cyclop-eeze I find that my hardest to feed fish sometimes will eat that.

Kryten 02-29-2008 06:02 PM

If you want you could bring him over and try him in my tank for a few days. I've got a lot of pest anenomes that they sometimes will eat, might be worth a shot.

chevyjaxon 03-01-2008 08:18 PM

Too late for him Im afraid i pulled him out of the bottom of my tank this morning he passed away, :cry: sigh; i wont buy another one of those i feel bad for him dying

fencer 03-01-2008 10:53 PM

Aq Enthusaists on 75 st has a Copperband that eats mysis.


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