LF:Copperband butterfly-GVRD

dsaundry · #1 10-22-2009, 04:47 AM

Copper bands are one of the toughest fish to keep, imo. I bought one 8yrs ago and he did fine for about 4-5 yrs,every other one I have ever gotten has packed in in very quickly, and none of them ever ate aptasia. Hope you get lucky but I think the mortality rate is about 90%.

Tangman · #2 10-22-2009, 02:03 PM

I've tried all the store bought aiptasia killers and the only one that worked for me , with limited success was the aiptasia-X, but what works even better is lemon juice and a syringe, just inject them with lemon juice and they don't come back

Barrie · #3 10-22-2009, 09:55 PM

+1 for lemon juice and a syringe! Works great!

burrows14 · #4 10-23-2009, 04:07 AM

ill give the lemon juice a try this weekend. any other things i could try?

mike31154 · #5 10-23-2009, 04:18 AM

Yep, I just ran across a thread with a guy looking for aiptaisia infested LR in the buy, sell, trade forum. Apparently he's culturing Nudibranch Berghia and they gobble the stuff up faster than he can grow it. Check it out.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...threadid=57081

burrows14 · #6 10-23-2009, 04:33 AM

yeah i saw that earlier today. i have some really nice peices that i really dont wanna get rid of tho. i pondered it a lil but it would be hard to replace them.

cheers
Ray

mike31154 · #7 10-23-2009, 04:44 AM

Yes, but have you thought of trying a nudibranch in your system to take care of it? Must admit that I have no experience in that regard though, just going but what I've seen on the forums. No idea of any other implications/complications with adding a nudibranch. Perhaps someone with actual experience will chime in.