Copperband Butterfly

[corrosionjerry]

No bullies the only other fish in the tank are 5 blue Chromis...

[Reef Pilot]

Don't know... Odd that he would die that quickly, and he was already eating. I can ask the obvious questions, like water parameters, but assume you already checked that. Hope the salinity of the water from your LFS was the same as yours.

[daniella3d]

That's a very good point. Sometimes the LFS keep their tanks at very low salinity, like 1.010 sometimes. If you go from this to 1.025, the difference is way too much on the fish even if you take 5 hours to acclimate it.

The only reasonable way to deal with this is to mesure the salinity in the bag and if the difference is more than 0.005 points, then lower the salinity in the quarantine tank and take a few days to raise it to normal. YOu will need to quarantine a copperband anyway, to give it a fair chance of survival and get it to eat without any other fish competition.

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Don't know... Odd that he would die that quickly, and he was already eating. I can ask the obvious questions, like water parameters, but assume you already checked that. Hope the salinity of the water from your LFS was the same as yours.