Butterflyfish

[benheer]

Can somebody share their sucess in keeping butterflyfish. I just bought a pair of copperband butterfly fish, can anyone tell me what are their requirements.

[jkleejk]

Can somebody share their sucess in keeping butterflyfish. I just bought a pair of copperband butterfly fish, can anyone tell me what are their requirements.

good luck bro. this fish has bad record in survival.

but still there reefer manage to keep alive

it kind of choosy in its food. try more on live food.

dun let other fish bully it while acclimating, if not definitely

wont b eating. generally butterflies is harder to keep

good luck.

[kareen]

copperband butterfly is one of the few that has better survial rates than the rest..... It is a little choosy on food such as it will not eat pellets and flakes but will eat frozen brine shrimps and mysis shrimps (prefer). What I do during feeding is that I will defroze the cubes of mysis shrimps and drop it near him so to make sure he get his shares of food.

BTW, smaller specimen seems to acculumated better than bigger ones.

[benheer]

copperband butterfly is one of the few that has better survial rates than the rest..... It is a little choosy on food such as it will not eat pellets and flakes but will eat frozen brine shrimps and mysis shrimps (prefer). What I do during feeding is that I will defroze the cubes of mysis shrimps and drop it near him so to make sure he get his shares of food.

BTW, smaller specimen seems to acculumated better than bigger ones.

How long have you been keeping this fish?

[benheer]

I like to keep butterflyfish, besides copperband, what other species are lmore likely to survive in an aquarium.

[kareen]

The copperband survived in my office tank for many, many months before I teared down and shift it home..... then last for 1 mths plus in my home 'cos my girl take a like on the fish and keep banging on glass wall to frighten it till death

Longnose butterfly is even easier to keep than copperband. Longnose eat flakes also. A word of caution..... somehow I feel that clams are not so safe with these two guy around.

[Asfur]

Copperband is a medium to sometimes hard to kept in aquarium, but once it acclimatize it can become a bold fish, i have a CB that growth from around 4 cm to almost 7 cm. It eat almost all food including dried seaweed/Nori except pellet and flakes.

Other BF that can be a good fish in aquarium are : auriga, saddleback, double saddle back, mellanotus, vagabond, euphipium, tinkery, semilarvatus, burgessy. Those BF can be rated as easy BF to eat in captivity.

[benheer]

Copperband is a medium to sometimes hard to kept in aquarium, but once it acclimatize it can become a bold fish, i have a CB that growth from around 4 cm to almost 7 cm. It eat almost all food including dried seaweed/Nori except pellet and flakes.

Other BF that can be a good fish in aquarium are : auriga, saddleback, double saddle back, mellanotus, vagabond, euphipium, tinkery, semilarvatus, burgessy. Those BF can be rated as easy BF to eat in captivity.

Cheers! finally i found my hopes in keeping this butterflyfish.

thanks

all brothers & sister..