My fat copperband butterfly

plutoniumJoe · #1 01-10-2011, 09:08 PM

Congratulations! I have been only 1/3 with copperbands. I understand that you might not be out of the water (pardon the pun) until 5-6months though.

Good luck.

Joe

daniella3d · #2 01-10-2011, 09:14 PM

The fish has been at the importer for 3 weeks, and I have it for 10 days so that's a good month, but I know it could have been cought with cyanide and if so it could die any time even if it is eating very well and if it is fat. The fact that it regained weight so fast is a good sign against cyanide don't you think? I have read that fish poisoned with cyanide will lose weight even if they eat a lot?

I surely hope so because that little guy is really sweet.

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Originally Posted by plutoniumJoe

Congratulations! I have been only 1/3 with copperbands. I understand that you might not be out of the water (pardon the pun) until 5-6months though.

Good luck.

Joe

Delphinus · #3 01-10-2011, 09:56 PM

Man I love CBB's.

Were these frozen white worms or live? When I google for info on white worms I get mostly pages talking about how to culture your own.

globaldesigns · #4 01-10-2011, 10:29 PM

Beautiful fish, I wish I had one. Well actually I had 2 over time, but each died. I fell into that statistic of too hard to keep.

Good luck to you, hope the little guy keeps up with the eating.

wayner · #5 01-10-2011, 11:39 PM

I love CBB's too, longest I kept one was 2 years - getting the itch to try again, I know I shouldn't, but I'm awful itchy.

The one I had for awhile was actually really small when I got it, I bought some mussels at safeway, he loved picking at them, - maybe that was the ticket to getting him off to a good start, who knows.

daniella3d · #6 01-11-2011, 12:08 AM

2 year is good. I wonder how long they live in the wild? I have read 5 years livespan or more?

How did yours died?

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Originally Posted by wayner

I love CBB's too, longest I kept one was 2 years - getting the itch to try again, I know I shouldn't, but I'm awful itchy.

The one I had for awhile was actually really small when I got it, I bought some mussels at safeway, he loved picking at them, - maybe that was the ticket to getting him off to a good start, who knows.

wayner · #7 01-11-2011, 12:55 AM

If I can remember correctly, must of been a parasite or something internal, never seen anything on the outside, he just stopped eating and hung around the rear corner. I find that with copperbands, at least the ones I've had, always seems to be something on the inside that does them in., last one I had started head twitching, lasted a week.

Tracey2 · #8 01-11-2011, 01:01 AM

Nice looking copperband. I feed mine live black worms and mysis, do you know how the white worms compare nutritionally to the black worms?

daniella3d · #9 01-11-2011, 12:07 AM

It's live white worms. You just need to find someone who has a culture and sell you some to strat you own culture. You put them in moist top soil and feed them with bread soaked in a little milk and to enrich it add Selcon.

They jiggle in the water for hours. I even found some still alive in saltwater after 24 hours, but usualy they get eated really quick.

If nobody sell a culture in your area then it is possible to ship it by mail. In winter it must be done with fast delivery and heat pad as they must not freeze.

They are about one ich long for the adults and can be really tiny for the young ones. I have 3 cultures going as I also feed my other fish and my mandarin on occasion, like once per week.

The copperband eat those as if they were popcorn. I let them soak in water about one hour before feeding so that any dirt inside the worm is flushed and the worm become really clean white.

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Man I love CBB's.

Were these frozen white worms or live? When I google for info on white worms I get mostly pages talking about how to culture your own.