Tankmates for a Copperbanded Butterfly

[Delphinus]

My experience is the same as Marie's, except the tankmates are a potter's angel, sixline wrasse, flame hawk, and desjardini tang.

The tang was right annoyed at the butterfly and I was real nervous that the CBB would have to be removed from the tank. However the "hazing" lasted about only 2-3 weeks, he lived through it and now everyone gets along.

(I had to aquascape the rocks to give him plenty of hiding spots that he could go to when chased, that the tang could not follow him in. A challenge for sure, but I think it did help get past this hazing period.)

-Incredibly- fussy eater though. Luckily eats aiptasia, luckily eats mysis, luckily eats other shellfish (mussels, oysters, whatever from the grocery store). Unluckily, will not eat any kind of other food I offer, flakes, pellets, frozen - you name it - if it's not mysis and if it's not brine shrimp (which is nutrionally void anyhow), then he won't eat it. And, unluckily, did develop a taste for yellow polyps (should have seen that one coming), and did develop a taste for dendrophyllia, and did develop a taste for blastomussa.

So .... tread carefully I guess my only advice.

Originally Posted by marie

I not only have mine with a tang, an angel, and a foxface but he went in last and had to put up with some bad hazing which he put up with with considerable aplomb