Copperband butterfly fish

[naesco]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

Remove the fish that are picking on the butterfly for a week or more while it settles in. Thats what worked for me.

Return the copperband to the LFS that you bought it from before it gets bullied to death.

Sell all the tangs you have in your tank and replace them with a few fish suitable for a small tank like yours. I plan to upgrade my tank in 6 months does not cut it for me, sorry.

Buy a peppermint shrimp and very slowly acclimate it and it should remove the aiptasia.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by naesco

Return the copperband to the LFS that you bought it from before it gets bullied to death.

Sell all the tangs you have in your tank and replace them with a few fish suitable for a small tank like yours. I plan to upgrade my tank in 6 months does not cut it for me, sorry.

Buy a peppermint shrimp and very slowly acclimate it and it should remove the aiptasia.

+1

[JaiWiz]

Good thing i'm not looking for your approval then all my fish are very healthy and do not act aggressive and swim about very happily. my water parameters are always good i'm not saying its right to have them in a tank thats to small but things came up and i have no choice but to house them in my current tank i guess a wedding and buying a house will do that to your reef budget i apologize your royal reef highness but that is just the way the cookie crumble's thanx for the input though

[whatcaneyedo]

Originally Posted by JaiWiz

Good thing i'm not looking for your approval then all my fish are very healthy and do not act aggressive and swim about very happily.

Originally Posted by JaiWiz

i turned on the lights about a hour n a half later to see how they were mingling and i"ll be damned all my other fish were taking some pretty aggressive runs at the CBB i'm concerned because these fish are already a delicate fish never mind having 5 other fish trying to kick your ass. what can i do all the fish did this to my yellow tang when i first put her in maybe its just a initation kinda thing

You just contradicted yourself.

[JaiWiz]

of course a new addition would call for some harassing might i add that did'nt last long but yes i should have been more clear on my statements

[JaiWiz]

jus checked on the ole tank and the fish are all getting along the CBB is still trying to find his place/territory in the tank but there is no more harassing and not to mention the CBB is already eatting with its new tank mates so i guess for now it looks good but you never know.

on the flipside of things does anyone in the red deer area know where a guy could get a decent 120 gallon tank and cannister for it ( i will also use the one i have on my 55 gal.) around the red deer area. You guys have made me feel like a douche because of the tank size thing so i'm gonna dip into the wedding fund and try to find a bigger tank thanx guys lol

[Borderjumper]

Good to hear that the aggression died down and awesome the CBB is eating already.

the mirror trick does work really well.

[daniella3d]

Get a sump instead and leave the canister out of the equation. I have a canister filter but it is because I don't have any room for a sump with my Osaka aquarium. Dumb desing of the furniture. I am replacing it with a phosban reactor...much more usefull!

If I had the choice I would get a sump any time. For the copperband...he'll eat all the aiptasia and then probably will starve to death. That's what happen to most copperband.

Mine is the boss of the aquarium and eat like a pig, I guess that's why he's doing well. Try to give him some mussels or oyster cut in half. They love that and it is good food for them. I give quite a bit of these to my copperband along with live white worms.

Mine is now so big that I sometime think that my 75 gallons is too small. They get quite large.

Originally Posted by JaiWiz

jus checked on the ole tank and the fish are all getting along the CBB is still trying to find his place/territory in the tank but there is no more harassing and not to mention the CBB is already eatting with its new tank mates so i guess for now it looks good but you never know.

on the flipside of things does anyone in the red deer area know where a guy could get a decent 120 gallon tank and cannister for it ( i will also use the one i have on my 55 gal.) around the red deer area. You guys have made me feel like a douche because of the tank size thing so i'm gonna dip into the wedding fund and try to find a bigger tank thanx guys lol