Aiptasia eating butterfly fish

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by VFX

I read your title I thought "wow! that must be one hell of an aiptasia! isn't it usually the other way round?"

I had wondered after I posted if it would be taken the wrong way, but by then it was to late to edit and change it.

Originally Posted by marie

Just for the record I'm reasonably sure aiptasia did not kill these fish. My copperband eats aiptasia and is still alive and well in my tank after 4 yrs

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[marie]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

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I suspect aiptasias to be toxic anyway..often you hear about a copperband eating all the aiptasia and then dying. .

Just for the record I'm reasonably sure aiptasia did not kill these fish. My copperband eats aiptasia and is still alive and well in my tank after 4 yrs

[Oilers]

Laurie,
Berghia nudibranch worked for me. I got 4 from monocus and they wiped out all my aptasia within a few days.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Oilers

Laurie,
Berghia nudibranch worked for me. I got 4 from monocus and they wiped out all my aptasia within a few days.

Lucky you! The ones I got dissapered completely & didn't touch any of the apitasia.

[Delphinus]

1) Likely those CBBs died from causes other than eating aiptasia.

2) IMO I would say most butterflies get too big for an 80g, but not all. Threadfin (C. auriga), double-saddleback (C. ulietensis), raccoon (C. lunula), Pakistani (C. collare) strike me as a couple that ought to do OK in a tank that size (depending on tankmates and if you get them small enough). No worse than many other species of fish we keep at any rate.

[daniella3d]

I am more suspecting an aiptasia only diet to be bad. But that was just my impression after reading a lot of these stories. Maybe the fish also ate all the aiptasia and died because it was not eating anything else, not sure.

Originally Posted by marie

Just for the record I'm reasonably sure aiptasia did not kill these fish. My copperband eats aiptasia and is still alive and well in my tank after 4 yrs