Copper Banded Butterfly fish surviving

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

I got lucky. Mine ate aptasia shortly after I first got it and then a month or so after that it ate PE mysis (soaked in garlic/selicon) it also picked on clams I think half the problem with these fish is that most wont eat and most are cyanide caught. I'm looking at getting a matted filefish to keep my aptasia problem under control, it's making a come back now that my CBB is dead. Here's hoping the filefish will eat aptasia and not sps

It should unless you get a badass lol mine ate frozen and loved it at first I didn't think it was eating aiptasia but at the end I couldn't find even one lol
there's somethin g about a butterfly I really like thoug. But like most of the fish I do like they either don't do well or eat everything else I do like lol

[Myka]

the Copperband Butterfly is the reason I got into saltwater aquariums to begin with. After learning about Copperbands' poor survival rate I refuse to take one from the ocean. Without experimentation no one will ever find out the "key", but I prefer to leave that to experts. Good luck with your farming. I haven't ever found Aiptasia to reproduce at a fast enough speed to farm them.

[naesco]

You might get lucky and the odd reefer will post that he has had success for a few months probably after several deaths.
The rest try once or twice and the fish predictably dies.

Best left in the ocean as a few others have suggested.

[Raven34]

0 for 2 on the copperband, still think its an ocean fish along with morrish idol and achilies tangs

[JOEL]

My first cb- and I have had him just over two years and still going strong.
The only thing he eats is mysis and pacifica plankton and anything he can get from the live rock.