My turn for a Copperband Butterfy ?

[stephane]

Tank for the compliment Doug!

Maybe I will get falme to tell this but it is my own experience over my 10 years in saltwater

Unless you have a very well established good size full of live rock quarantine tank I have found that quarantine a fish give more problem than anyting els

the major cause of desease and death on fish and coral are STRESS
the stress kill by stopping the immune system Fish stop eating and if the fish dont have enought energy fat store in him he will dye soon

I never realy look more on a fish than if he is fat when I buy it! if the fish is fat even full of ick I buy and put it in the reef 2 week later he is recover
99.9% of time no garlic no noting only good food but I let him alone and dont put my ugly face in the widow looking at him to streess it even more
when I introduce a new fish I alway close the light for 12 houre and after
feed the tank severale time a day for a couple of week when I do I open the cover slowly and dont make any fast movement

dont forget to clean the skimmer and tune it the best you can to not strees the systeme with the bigger amount of food

If you buy a copper banded I suggest you to buy misys at the same time
as they are the primary and only food you should give the tank for the next 2 week even if he donteat it at first or he pick at it but dont eat dont change and keep the misys he will eat it if not notting will do! after he will be fat and eat those misys like popcorrn start to
give different meal slowly and he will became a pig just like mine IMO
a CB who eat coral is a ugry CB as they realy like more the prepared food than a coral IMO cleaner shrimp is a realy good addition for desease control and will help

When I buy mine he was full of ick even have nipple like a fungus on the side an dont heat in the petshop tank 2 week after full recovert and eat like a pig. I have also tree tang in the tank and none have getting any ick


IMO the worst ting to do when you buy a fish is ask the store to keep it for a couple of week unless you buy it in a very good store that have condition very good cause they put a fish from the wild between four wall
in poor water full of medication were everyone look at him all day long and knock on the glass and worst of all they dont have anywere to hide it
stress the fish so much he dont eat burn is fat but dont get any desease
since the system is full of médication so he will not dye but will get one soon as you bring him home and dye cause he have not eat for long time ,is immune syteme is completly shut down,he have now no energy fat reseve