Notoriously finicky eaters

[phreezee]

I just plopped in a Regal Angel and he's eating pellets. Absolutely ecstatic right now

Just wish my little Copperband Butterfly would eat something other than brine and mysis. I've had him for a month now and he's always picky at the rocks. How long do you guys think before I can say I'm "out of the woods" and have beat the odds?

[Mandosh]

With a Copperband, I don't think you're ever "out of the woods." After 8 months of doing great I recently lost mine to a maxi-carpet anemone.

[phreezee]

Sorry for your loss, did your's ever eat dry foods?

[Mandosh]

I had some luck with freeze-dried mysis soaked in garlic to soften it up.

[Reef Pilot]

This is how I got mine eating different foods.
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73021

I recently sold one of the Copperbands. He was doing great, but had to be relegated to the refugium. The other is in my display tank, and is also doing well eating the same dry and frozen foods.

[phreezee]

^I totally followed that thread and went out and bought all the food, but my tangs would always get all the before the CBB could figure it out. Still think the idea is awesome but didn't have luck with it.

Pecking order seems to be established today, both the Regal Angel and Purple Tang I got yesterday have settled in nicely

[daniella3d]

It probably died and the current dragged it into the anemone? If a maxi carpet can eat a fish that big, I would definitly not put any with any fish.

I have a rock flower, a very large tube anemone and a few maxi mini carpet and they can't even eat my slow moving mandarin fish which is always going around and over them.

Originally Posted by Mandosh

With a Copperband, I don't think you're ever "out of the woods." After 8 months of doing great I recently lost mine to a maxi-carpet anemone.

[Jan]

My copperband (have had it for 2 years) loves Pacifica Plankton and But he is still skinny.

http://redcoralaquarium.net/online/i...oducts_id=1167

[Tracey2]

My regals and copperband loves live black worms, pe mysis, ocean plankton and rogers reef food, the regals also eat pellets and flakes.

[daniella3d]

Try some live mussels. Mine eats live white worms and live mussels and he's really fat. You can buy them fresh at the grocery store and then you brush it under warm running water to remove any parasites and then you open it up and give it to the fish. Mine don't even want to eat the live white worms on the day I put in a mussel. He just love it (and so does my niger trigger!).

Originally Posted by Jan

My copperband (have had it for 2 years) loves Pacifica Plankton and But he is still skinny.

http://redcoralaquarium.net/online/i...oducts_id=1167