Copperband Butterfly

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

After losing more than one CBB over the years, I now have a small one that is eating frzn and doing great. My last one before this lasted 3 days, just long enough to eat the tank full of aiptasia rocks that I had cultured on purpose for it in a 120g tank. It ate every aiptasia & died the next day

It's my wife's favourite fish (along with Porcupine puffer, Bannerfish, and Jellyfish) so I gave it one last try & I've had it almost a month and its doing really well in a well-stocked (mostly lps) seahorse refugium tank where it is the biggest fish. I now have specimens of all four of Irene's favourite fish, so she's happy about that.

But yeah, not a great survival rate & I think they are more likely to much on clams (since that's what some people feed them to keep alive - manila clams from the supermarket).

Anthony

Must be one of the smaller guys from JL a while ago.
I got one too, by far the best and most promising of my three attempts at this fish...
I keep moving rocks from the back sump compartment in my aquapod which is rich in aiptasia and fanworms into my 95 gallon..
my CBB is eating frozen voraciously, but I just don't want to lose a 4th of these sexy fish...

[whatcaneyedo]

My first two locally purchased CBB died after about a week. However I'm suspicious that they may have been cyanide caught as they acted healthy and were eating right up until the moment they died.

I've had my present CBB for 17 months which I purchased at Ocean Aquatics.
Month 1 it ate all of my fan worms and spaghetti worms
Month 2 it ate all of my aptasia
Month 3 it began eating frozen mysis
Month 4 to present it started eating my open brains, acans and a photosynthetic sea whip. I've also seen it eat the occasional bristle worm.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

My first two locally purchased CBB died after about a week. However I'm suspicious that they may have been cyanide caught as they acted healthy and were eating right up until the moment they died.

I've had my present CBB for 17 months which I purchased at Ocean Aquatics.
Month 1 it ate all of my fan worms and spaghetti worms
Month 2 it ate all of my aptasia
Month 3 it began eating frozen mysis
Month 4 to present it started eating my open brains, acans and a photosynthetic sea whip. I've also seen it eat the occasional bristle worm.

Janet is usually pretty stellar at making sure things are at least eating frozen before they go to a new home...
I've tried to buy cbb's there before and wasn't allowed or put on a wait list...lol

[Lance]

I've had mine for 7 months now. Bought it from another Canreef member; although I don't know how long she had it for. For the first 6 months it would only eat clams, mussels and oysters. Just last month it finally tried mysis and is now eating any frozen food I give it. I have several LPS, including brains and I have yet to see it show any interest in them.

[prodogg02]

just make sure its eatin in the store i never had one,seen one oneday thought why not brought him home 4 months ago and hes doin fine fat little pig eats every thing even .5mm nls.he seems to love little pods in the tank and small feather dusters.but all depends of the fish