Butterfly - Copperband Chelmon rostratus

[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

[Karen Marlin]

I have had success so far with feeding fresh/frozen mussel or clam in the shell. I find that it doesn't do so well with just mysis and needs feeding 2-3 times per day, as it doesn't eat much at one time. Now that I feed either 1 mussel or clam each day, it gets a nice fat belly. I just buy them at superstore and throw them in the freezer and cut them open before they go in the tank. I feed a bit of flake to divert the other fish... anyway for me, this is the only way I've been able to get this fish to eat enough after it polished off all my aptasia and feather dusters...in a 200 gallon...it's done a great job. Just my 2 cents worth....Karen

[surgeonfish]

I tried everything under the sun and the only thing my CBB ate was blood worms. He never touched any of the aiptasia in his quarantine tank. After 3 months he was looking well. I then put him in my tank and my damn damsels killed him before I could get him back into the quarantine tank.