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| View Poll Results: Does your copperband butterfly eat aiptasia? | |||
| Yes, all of it. |
   
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8 | 10.00% |
| Yes, and it's reef safe. |
  
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23 | 28.75% |
| It only picks at it but never eats it all. |
  
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2 | 2.50% |
| Sometimes |
  
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3 | 3.75% |
| No |
  
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10 | 12.50% |
| No, and it bit my corals. |
  
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3 | 3.75% |
| My copperband butterfly is dead. |
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31 | 38.75% |
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#2
07-29-2009, 07:54 AM
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I could click yes to a few things there. ATM my CBB of 1 year does a fantastic job of eating aptasia and many other things in my tank (some good some bad). But this is also the 5th I've tried (3 of which died). Definitally a difficult fish but worth its weight in gold if you can find a good one.
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07-29-2009, 02:27 PM
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Mine did an awsome job of getting at the ones it could but died about a month or 2 after getting it. Very cool fish though!
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75G, 100 lbs LR, Inwatter Stingray LED's, 25 Gallon Sump, 24wt UV, hermits, Snails, pep, fire & cleaner shrimps, Blue Throat Trigger, Perc Clowns , Yellow Tang, Coral Beauty, Blue Regal tang, RBTA, Coral Banded Shrimp, Checkerboard Wrasse, Many Corals, Royal Tux Urchin
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#5
07-29-2009, 03:00 PM
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I've had my CBB for 3 years now. He is my oldest fish and amazingly one of the very few fish I have that survived the marine velvet disease that went through my tanks. He has always eaten aptasia as well as mysis and he has been reef safe (softies, lps & zoas) in my tank. I have tried two others but both died shortly after I bought them. I think the key with these fish is to find one that the store has in or can hold for a couple of weeks and one that is eating mysis already.
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One more fish should be ok?, right!!!  - Laurie
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07-29-2009, 05:38 PM
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Month 1: Ate all of my spaghetti worms
Month 2: Ate all of my aptasia Month 3: Began eating frozen mysis shrimp Month 4: Began eating grocery store mussel Month 5-10: Began eating the mouths of my open brains, acans, and sea whip polyps as well as bristle worms and some 'pods'. Fortunately I have a frag tank where I could isolate the coral it was eating to.
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"We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever." - H.P. Lovecraft Old 120gal Tank Journal New 225gal Tank Journal May 2010 TOTM The 10th Annual Prince George Reef Tank Tour
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08-18-2009, 04:58 PM
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Mine picked at the Aiptasia and would only eat some of it. Just keep in mind these fish are sometimes hard to feed. The only thing mine EVER ate was frozen brine shrimp. I tried lots of other food and it did not eat it. My Butterfly fish was also huge it got to be 4-5 inches long but after a while it started to play in my sump area to much and ofcourse died 2 weeks later. So now i got a tang instead
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