Butterfly - Copperband Chelmon rostratus

[Chin_Lee]

Please provide your experience in this poll:

• Use the top 9 poll questions if your fish has passed away.
• Use the bottom 7 poll questions if you currently own this fish.
• Multiple polls are allowed.
• Select the best answer to the best of your knowledge.
• Adding comments or elaborating on the cause of death in a post is encouraged.

The options are as follows:

died within 0-3 months
died within 4-6 months
died within 7-9 months
died within 10-12 months
died within 13-18 months
died within 19-24 months
died within 2-3 years
died within 3-4 years
died after 5 years +
currently alive 0-6 months
currently alive 7-12 months
currently alive over 1 year
currently alive over 2 years
currently alive over 3 years
currently alive over 4 years
currently alive 5 years +

[untamed]

Could not get it to eat. It takes about 2 weeks for a fish to starve to death.

[Borderjumper]

I could not get mine to eat either. I had a few feather dusters in my tank, so mine took 3 weeks to starve. I tried 2 kinds of mysis, bloodworms, live clams, and live mussles. Nothing worked. Very sad to watch a fish starve itself to death.

[Snappy]

They are a sweet fish but mine just disappeared one day after 5 months. Not sure what happened?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Have had no long term luck with any butterflyfish, especially Copperbands. Too bad since they are Irene's favourite fish.

[Chaloupa]

mine has been alive just over 2 years now....eats bloodworms, mysis, ocean plankton, clam, and aiptasia

[fishoholic]

I've had mine for about 3 months and he eats mysis and aptasia

[mike31154]

Beautiful fish, real tough to watch him starve.

[trilinearmipmap]

Had mine a little over 2 years.

When I bought it I had J & L staff feed mysis to the tank of Copperbands and I bought the one that was eating the best.

It did fine for a couple of years eating mysis and mussels and clams. Usually I would feed it once a day.

Unfortunately the CBB wiped out all my bristleworms and pretty well all the pods in the tank. The loss of pods IMO was responsible for the death of a Mandarin who had been doing fine for a long time.

After a couple of years I made the mistake of cutting back on feeding to combat some nutrient problems in the tank. I started feeding mysis only every 2nd day. After a couple of months I noticed the CBB was wasting away, by then it was too late to save him.

My over-all favourite fish ever for beauty, swimming ability and personality.

[J.Lloy]

I had one in one tank to clean out little feather dusters and they were gone in just over a week then passed it on to a friend for his tank and it went carpet surfing after 3 days.
In my new tank recently I had one for about a month. It was eating some mysis but not enough, found it against the overflow.