Copperband Food and J&L

[Reef Pilot]

My Copperband is pretty fussy. I tried soaking food in selcon and garlic, and he then just spits it out. This includes the freeze dried plankton and mysis, which he really loves, but without the selcon or garlic.

I have not got him to eat any kind of pellet food either, although my other butterfly fish eat it.

The only thing my Copperband eats is the freeze dried plankton and mysis, frozen PE mysis and brine shrimp, and fresh chopped clams (won't eat the frozen clams). I have tried lots of other foods as well, but like I said he is pretty fussy.

I have had him about a year and a half now, and while I wouldn't call him fat, he is pretty healthy and happy in the tank. I have to feed often though, because his tank mates are all voracious eaters, and the food gets eaten quickly before he has his fill. That long snout is not the best for picking off food from the surface, and he misses a lot.