copperband butterflys

[Trigger Man]

Your copperband Butterfly has great width to it. When I had mine it was always skinny looking, no matter how much I fed the tank.

[marie]

Do you have any pics?

[Trigger Man]

Unfourtantly I do not. I'm old school (only own a regular digital camera that takes bad aquarium pics) and hence I didn't take any good tank or fish pics. I had my CBB for around 7 months and he was around 4.5 inches. At the best of times it was 20 % thinner then yours.

[Karen Marlin]

Mine is about that size and about the same thickness...the only time I see his tummy bulge after eating is when I put in a half frozen clam or mussel (in the shell). I do this every second day...after feeding the other fish mysis...and this helps...if I don't do it...I've noticed the copperband's color getting dark and greyish...I think stress from not enough to eat....they eat so slowly...the clam/mussel helps...it can pick at it for awhile and get full.

[AJ_77]

This is going back a few years, but it ate mysis, bristleworms and featherdusters.
Fresh clams in the shell helped him get started.

[marie]

Yours looked nice and round Alan but it looks like I've got my work cut out for me to get this fish as beefy as my others are

[Kostas]

My cooperband is not an aggressive eating, he will look at the food, and eat maybe 1 out of 5 piece he tastes/look at :S he is sooo weird, and a lil on the thin side,

Marie you a chubby chaser?

but he does eat. Took him 26days to start eating frozen foods thou.
had him for over two months now
I’ll post a pic soon

[AJ_77]

Originally Posted by marie

Yours looked nice and round Alan but it looks like I've got my work cut out for me to get this fish as beefy as my others are

I think mine was a serious fatty, though. More sensible fishkeepers probably feed less than I would, but the EmilyB school of animal husbandry works pretty well for me. I want to see my new batch of charges go 8-10 years too.

Yours looks really good, BTW. Nice full body, no pinching.

[whatcaneyedo]

I got mine back in July to keep my aptasia under control. For the first month all it ate were these little "spaghetti" worms in my sand bed and all of my feather dusters of course. Then it started eating the aptasia and cleaned them up really fast! Now there is only one aptasia left in the tank that I can ever find (I think he has a hard time reaching it). The copperband just started eating frozen mysis shrimp about a month ago as well which makes me really happy... I hate buying these fish because they generally do so poorly in captivity and I haven’t had very good experiences in the past.