LF:Copperband butterfly-GVRD

burrows14 · #1 10-21-2009, 01:51 AM

As the title says looking for a proven aptasia eater if you dont have one for sale maybe if you have seen a LFS with one instock you could let me know.

Thanks
Ray

originalozzyo · #2 10-21-2009, 04:22 AM

Just saw a few small ones at j&l tonight

burrows14 · #3 10-21-2009, 06:06 AM

sweet thanks! hopefully they have them still on the weekend

cheers
Ray

mike31154 · #4 10-21-2009, 04:46 PM

A heads up in case you're not familiar, but this species has a poor survival rate in captive systems. Many starve to death because they won't take prepared food. Furthermore, they can be hit and miss with respect to aiptaisia. I'm speaking from personal experience since I've already made this error and had to watch a magnificent specimen starve in my tank. IMO these fish should stay in the ocean.

alyminny · #5 10-22-2009, 02:41 AM

5-6 years ago I bought a Copperband to get rid of my Aptasia. It didn't eat any bit of it, but shortly became my favorit fish. It was used by LFS to eat only brine shrimps and I could not change his eating habits. I successfully kept him with brine shrimps soaked in Selcon and vitamins for almost 6 years, without being sick at all. It was in very good shape and fat. I got rid of my aptasia (a lot) with Joe's Juice and i did not have since.
Cheers

burrows14 · #6 10-22-2009, 04:01 AM

yeah ive heard they are hard to keep and are very picky im hoping i will luck out! im having troubles keeping on top of my aptasia problem. im using aptasia-X and have a couple small peppermints and were loosing the battle.

cheers
Ray

dsaundry · #7 10-22-2009, 04:47 AM

Copper bands are one of the toughest fish to keep, imo. I bought one 8yrs ago and he did fine for about 4-5 yrs,every other one I have ever gotten has packed in in very quickly, and none of them ever ate aptasia. Hope you get lucky but I think the mortality rate is about 90%.

Tangman · #8 10-22-2009, 02:03 PM

I've tried all the store bought aiptasia killers and the only one that worked for me , with limited success was the aiptasia-X, but what works even better is lemon juice and a syringe, just inject them with lemon juice and they don't come back

Barrie · #9 10-22-2009, 09:55 PM

+1 for lemon juice and a syringe! Works great!

burrows14 · #10 10-23-2009, 04:07 AM

ill give the lemon juice a try this weekend. any other things i could try?