Copperband eating, but getting thinner.

[daniella3d]

If you stop feeding your fish and give him only aiptasia to eat...see how long he's going to live

Originally Posted by marie

Just to keep everyone from worrying that they may have killed their cbb by letting it eat aiptasia.... I have had my cbb for 4.5 yrs, he has eaten all my aiptasia and not only didn't die but still eats them the minute any aiptasia arrive in my tank. I placed a clam covered in baby aiptasias into the tank and the cbb had half of them cleaned off the shell before the clam reached the sandbed.....

[marie]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

.......How often do we read in these forums "my copperband ate all the aiptasias and then died"...

It is easy to verify that aiptasia are not part of copperband diet, it is well document what exactly they eat. And last but not least, do your own research on this, you will find lots of info on aiptasias and copperband diet.

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

If you stop feeding your fish and give him only aiptasia to eat...see how long he's going to live

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

[Jaws]

Not that I'm disagreeing with anyone but there are definitely fish, crustaceans, etc that have adapted to eat a multitude of poisonous things including anemones and aptasia. Why would a copperband be any different? Although I agree it shouldn't be it's only substance in their diet but I can't see it being bad for their health from what most people have experienced. I feel like I should also add a smiley face now

[Douglas]

Well.....she didn't care for the Mussels. Now I'm on the hunt for live worms. It doesn't thrill me to have to fed her live food, just because.....now it's something I have to purchase on a regular basis, and there are limited places to get them. I much prefer frozen.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Douglas

Well.....she didn't care for the Mussels. Now I'm on the hunt for live worms. It doesn't thrill me to have to fed her live food, just because.....now it's something I have to purchase on a regular basis, and there are limited places to get them. I much prefer frozen.

If you can find a live food that she likes, persist in mixing frozen food with it. The key is to keep her alive until you can convince it to eat frozen. Lance's fish only ate clams for 2 years before it finally started eating mysis shrimp

[lockrookie]

i just got a cbb myself and must have lucked out twice today ate frozen mysis and even early this am i grabbed some flake shocked the crap outta me cause i figured id have a had time training.. 2nd day in the tank

good luck on yours bud i hope it pulls through try everything.

[daniella3d]

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.

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

[daniella3d]

If you get a live white worms culture, all you have to do is to feed it with a bit of bread soaked with a bit of milk and a few drops of Selcon. That's it.

Then you'll have plenty of live worms to feed your fish. Not only the copperband, all your fish will love them. The worms multiply fast so there is always a good supply on hand.


quote=Douglas;729102]Well.....she didn't care for the Mussels. Now I'm on the hunt for live worms. It doesn't thrill me to have to fed her live food, just because.....now it's something I have to purchase on a regular basis, and there are limited places to get them. I much prefer frozen. [/quote]

[lockrookie]

Just curious how your cbb is doing

[Douglas]

Unfortunatly it didn't make it. It refused white worms, blood worms, garlic soaked mysis, and anything else i tried, it would only eat Brine. It was my third attempt. I didn't treat it for Flukes, or any other type of parisites initially, because of no tell tale signs. That might have been the issue. If i try again, i'll automatically treat it with Prazipro, and and see if that was the issue.