copperband butterflys

[marie]

Please post pics of your copperband butterfly

I've now had my cbb for 7 months and as everyone should of guessed I like fat fish, while mines not skinny he's not as round as I would like to see.
It would be nice to see pics of others for comparison. Could you also please post how long you've had yours and what he eats. Thanks

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/clown022.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/clown008.jpg

[Trigger Man]

Your copperband Butterfly has great width to it. When I had mine it was always skinny looking, no matter how much I fed the tank.

[marie]

Do you have any pics?

[whatcaneyedo]

I got mine back in July to keep my aptasia under control. For the first month all it ate were these little "spaghetti" worms in my sand bed and all of my feather dusters of course. Then it started eating the aptasia and cleaned them up really fast! Now there is only one aptasia left in the tank that I can ever find (I think he has a hard time reaching it). The copperband just started eating frozen mysis shrimp about a month ago as well which makes me really happy... I hate buying these fish because they generally do so poorly in captivity and I haven’t had very good experiences in the past.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/whatcaneyedo/pic195.jpg

[Trigger Man]

Unfourtantly I do not. I'm old school (only own a regular digital camera that takes bad aquarium pics) and hence I didn't take any good tank or fish pics. I had my CBB for around 7 months and he was around 4.5 inches. At the best of times it was 20 % thinner then yours.

[Karen Marlin]

Mine is about that size and about the same thickness...the only time I see his tummy bulge after eating is when I put in a half frozen clam or mussel (in the shell). I do this every second day...after feeding the other fish mysis...and this helps...if I don't do it...I've noticed the copperband's color getting dark and greyish...I think stress from not enough to eat....they eat so slowly...the clam/mussel helps...it can pick at it for awhile and get full.

[AJ_77]

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/201bandit_final.jpg
This is going back a few years, but it ate mysis, bristleworms and featherdusters.
Fresh clams in the shell helped him get started.

[marie]

Yours looked nice and round Alan but it looks like I've got my work cut out for me to get this fish as beefy as my others are

[Kostas]

My cooperband is not an aggressive eating, he will look at the food, and eat maybe 1 out of 5 piece he tastes/look at :S he is sooo weird, and a lil on the thin side,

Marie you a chubby chaser? :lol:

but he does eat. Took him 26days to start eating frozen foods thou.
had him for over two months now
I’ll post a pic soon

[Chaloupa]

This was my first one....it ate mysis, bloodworms, clam, oyster and muscles....then was being bullied by another fish and I lost it. I had it for over a year I think.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/Chaloupa/Puffybumper1-1.jpg

I have another I will try to get a picture of......it's much fussier...but healthy ....I'll try to post a pic tomorrow

[AJ_77]

Yours looked nice and round Alan but it looks like I've got my work cut out for me to get this fish as beefy as my others areI think mine was a serious fatty, though. :biggrin: More sensible fishkeepers probably feed less than I would, but the EmilyB school of animal husbandry works pretty well for me. I want to see my new batch of charges go 8-10 years too.

Yours looks really good, BTW. Nice full body, no pinching.

[Delphinus]

Tough fish to fatten up. I've had mine 2 years now, he's definitely grown but is still the fussiest fish I've ever kept. I too subscribe to the Emilyb school of animal husbandry and wide fish :lol: I feed mine mysis every day (because at least he'll eat it), aiptasia whenever I can move some over from another tank, and at least once or twice every 2 weeks or so a full shellfish of some kind (oyster, mussel, clam, whatever). He goes nuts for those although so does everyone else. I'm sure I'm doing a number on my bioload but what can you do... Hard to argue against that wide fish are long-living fish.

Marie yours does look pretty wide comparatively, at least. :)

[marie]

Tough fish to fatten up. I've had mine 2 years now, he's definitely grown but is still the fussiest fish I've ever kept. I too subscribe to the Emilyb school of animal husbandry and wide fish :lol: I feed mine mysis every day (because at least he'll eat it), aiptasia whenever I can move some over from another tank, and at least once or twice every 2 weeks or so a full shellfish of some kind (oyster, mussel, clam, whatever). He goes nuts for those although so does everyone else. I'm sure I'm doing a number on my bioload but what can you do... Hard to argue against that wide fish are long-living fish.

Marie yours does look pretty wide comparatively, at least. :)

Mine stuffs his beak right up inside the turkey baster that I use to feed the tank with so not only does he eat first but there is less waste...as long as its mysis in the turkey baster of course :lol:

[Delphinus]

Mine too! :lol: He knows the turkey baster is his friend. In fact all I have to do is hold the turkey baster in my hand and he gets all excited.

[fishoholic]

Here's some pic.'s of mine. He eats mysis.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/BRA/DSC_0994.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/BRA/DSC_0991.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii53/Laurie_Morin/BRA/DSC_0990.jpg

Not as fat as yours marie but close :biggrin: I have had him for about a year.