meyer's butterfly / scrawled butterfly fish

[the_other_jerry]

hi bros out there,

can you kindly advis if above fish is considered reefsafe?

[yikai]

impossible to keep.

it's an obligate SPS eater. that means it eats nothing but SPS.

unless you can provide it SPS forever, you can't keep this.

substitute fish foods will not work and it won't eat them.

[the_other_jerry]

my tank only have LPS and dun have any SPS... so monitoring this guy for a while.. and hope he will feed on something.. this butterfly looks distintive.. hope he can survive

[yikai]

it WILL die.

please do more research in future and stop buying fishes like these.

they don't survive at all because of their strict diet.

[Digiman]

it WILL die.

please do more research in future and stop buying fishes like these.

they don't survive at all because of their strict diet.

I jux saw one meyeri butterfly at CF on Saturday. V beautiful!

But when we are there on Sunday, the butterfly is gone! Which means someone has bought it and not knowing it is difficult to keep.

[the_other_jerry]

my one is from pinnacle and the boss say can feed brine shrimp.. but will really monitor this fish

[yikai]

the thing is, even if it eats brine shrimp, it will die.

even if it eats pellets, it will also die.

the problem with obligate coral feeders is they have evolved over the years to eat nothing else but corals. sure one or two will eat pellets or brine shrimp or mysis and survive, but the odds are too slim to count.

tkae this as a lesson learnt. many butterflies are obligate coral eaters so pls do research before buying.

[the_other_jerry]

hi bro lemon,

yeah, really lesson learnt.

say if i really want to keep this fish, can advise the affordable option of sps that i can easily get from lfs?

[Zoa guy]

Its not going to be affordable. Maybe u can set up a huge tank full of sps corals that will supply you a consistent supply of frags for your butterfly to eat but that is unlikely to work since acros dont grow that fast either that or u need ALOt of sps colonys....how is your butterfly now

[the_other_jerry]

Its not going to be affordable. Maybe u can set up a huge tank full of sps corals that will supply you a consistent supply of frags for your butterfly to eat but that is unlikely to work since acros dont grow that fast either that or u need ALOt of sps colonys....how is your butterfly now

sadly, the butterfly has died.

[Zoa guy]

thats sad to hear...all the best