copperband butterflys

marie · #1 10-17-2008, 02:53 AM

Do you have any pics?

Trigger Man · #2 10-17-2008, 03:00 AM

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 · #3 10-17-2008, 03:12 AM

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 · #4 10-17-2008, 03:29 AM

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

marie · #5 10-17-2008, 04:16 AM

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 · #6 10-17-2008, 06:23 AM

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

Chaloupa · #7 10-17-2008, 06:41 AM

This was my first one....it ate mysis, bloodworms, clam, oyster and muscles....then was being bullied by another fish and I lost it. I had it for over a year I think.

I have another I will try to get a picture of......it's much fussier...but healthy ....I'll try to post a pic tomorrow

AJ_77 · #8 10-23-2008, 04:50 PM

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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.

Delphinus · #9 10-23-2008, 06:02 PM

Tough fish to fatten up. I've had mine 2 years now, he's definitely grown but is still the fussiest fish I've ever kept. I too subscribe to the Emilyb school of animal husbandry and wide fish

I feed mine mysis every day (because at least he'll eat it), aiptasia whenever I can move some over from another tank, and at least once or twice every 2 weeks or so a full shellfish of some kind (oyster, mussel, clam, whatever). He goes nuts for those although so does everyone else. I'm sure I'm doing a number on my bioload but what can you do... Hard to argue against that wide fish are long-living fish.

Marie yours does look pretty wide comparatively, at least.