Got my cooperband butterfly fish eating after 26days!!!!!
 

Got my cooperband butterfly fish eating after 26days!!!!! :D
Just when I was losing hope and thought it would stave to death, tonight my cooperband accepted mysis shrimp.
– yet oddly NEVER eat the crab meat – muscles – malina clams (one a day) scallops I kept offering every day. That was one stressful fish to get eating. I’m just so happy he eat today…he has been in a 30g in the basement for the last week with 50lbs of live rock (covered in majanoes) since he wasn’t eating in my main tank I thought maybe he might pick at those majanos…
I wonder how long till I can move him back to my 90g…leave him in the 30g and keep feeding him for another week before putting him back in main tank?

Congrats!!!! If it were my fish I'd hold off for a month or so to make sure it's eating very very well, and is fattened up before going back in the display...as it will most likely stress a bit when it goes back in...

Congrats. Hope it doesn't do that again to you when you move it back into the 90. :smile:

I got really lucky with the copperband I got from The Reef Shoppe. It cleaned up all my aptasia within hours and was eating mysis the very next day. Sure glad I didn't have to wait almost 4 weeks for it to eat.

After having a few fish die from not eating, I now ask the LFS to feed the tank the fish I want is in, if the fish I want eats I buy it. If it's not eating and it's a rarer fish (like my blue ring angel) I ask the store to hold it for me until the fish is eating, if it's a fairly common fish I'll wait until I find one that's already eating.

When I was at one of the LFS that had several CBB's I asked them to feed the tank. Much to my pleasent surprise four of them were eating mysis. So I ended up buying one that was arleady eating. Much easier then going through the stress of it not eating and wondering if it ever will.

I go pick up my Blue Ring Angel tomorrow at the LFS. They held it for me for the last 2 weeks, and now that it's eating I am happy to pick it up.

Nothing like spending a lot of money on a fish that doesn't eat, much easier and less stressful to check first. Glad your CBB is eating :biggrin: I'd wait a week then add him back into the main tank.

I would leave her in as long as you can as the move will stress her again.
See if she will eat selcon/garlic soaked foods to build up her energy and then you continue to feed that when you finally do move her.