Wanted Copperband butterfly fish

louisxyz · #1 03-24-2011, 04:03 PM

Hi ReefPilot,

Did you try using your medical capsule strategy in the main tank? If yes, what was the result.

Treebeard · #2 03-24-2011, 04:12 PM

I had the exact same experience with my yellow tang. He was hassling the CBB so I trapped him, banished him to bad fish corner of the sump for two weeks and let him contemplate his evil ways. But when I put him back in the display it was like he had never left and returned to his old self. Fortunately he has a very short memory and fell for the trap again.

reefwars · #3 03-24-2011, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Treebeard

I had the exact same experience with my yellow tang. He was hassling the CBB so I trapped him, banished him to bad fish corner of the sump for two weeks and let him contemplate his evil ways. But when I put him back in the display it was like he had never left and returned to his old self. Fortunately he has a very short memory and fell for the trap again.

to reduce aggressivness you will have to change around your aquascape , problem is he has territory established and even if you remove the tang he will establish the same teritory unless he is bullied out himself...... changing around the rock work will throw off his memory.

adding pvc for hiding places will hep alot as well, in a fishes mind its out of sight out of mind....cheers guys

whatcaneyedo · #4 03-25-2011, 12:16 AM

Wow your yellow tangs are real jerks. When I introduced my CBB I removed my purple tang for just a week because it was chasing the butterfly. When I put it back in, it didn't show any amount of aggression. However, to this day, the purple tang still picks on my +2' snowflake moray...

intarsiabox · #5 03-25-2011, 02:40 AM

My previous yellow tang was a real jerk too. I had a 75g about 5 years ago with a yellow tang in it and added a CBB to the tank to take care of some aiptasia. My tang stabbed him about a dozen times in 5 minutes and that was by far my shortest lived fish ever.

Reef Pilot · #6 03-24-2011, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by louisxyz

Hi ReefPilot,

Did you try using your medical capsule strategy in the main tank? If yes, what was the result.

Yes, I did actually, but the big bird wrasse soon discovered it, too, and scared away the Copperband. So, I have to keep using the turkey baster.

At least the Copperband is now trained to come to it. The problem is the Bird Wrasse (about 7 inches long, beautiful fish) also knows there is food there, and I need to keep trying to keep him away when I feed the Copperband,... not easy. I have even given the Bird Wrasse a few taps, with the turkey baster, when he gets close, but that doesn't seem to deter him much either.

So not sure where this will go. I am going to be setting up another tank, for frags. Maybe I will try catch the bird wrasse, and stick him in there for a while. He is now a bigger problem than the Yellow Tang.