Yes starvation and God only what toxin to top it.
Probably if a copperband eat aiptasia as a small part if its diet, it's not so bad but if it's the only thing consumed, it's probably enough to kill it from malnutrition and ingesting toxin constantly.
Eating a little bit if cyanide here an there probably won't kill someone but eating it constantly would probably get you to your grave.
I have read that the toxin from aiptasias can be quite powerfull. How much the copperband can digest this without being affected? dunno...
Aiptasias ARE NOT part of a well balanced diet one bit. It is not part of a copperband diet at all. Do some research about this.
The proof is there..if aiptasias were part of a natural diet of the copperband, then ALL copperband would eat them...but not even half the copperband actually eat them.
Feather dusters and worms are part of their natural diet, thus they all eat feather dusters with gusto.
I know 9 persons who have copperband butterfly fish, and out of these 9 only 1 eat aiptasias and only occasionnaly. Does that sound like a natural diet? not really.
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Originally Posted by marie
So what you really mean is, it's not the aiptasia that killed them but starvation. You need to word your sentences better to reflect that, so people don't go around thinking they are poisoning their fish because I can assure you my copperband is far from poisoned....aiptasia is just a part of his well balanced diet  |