copperband butterflies

Hello I was looking at this copperband at my LFS. It eats frozen food from the hand, is interested in whats going on and acts what seems to be normal. I cant see any signs of desease or parasites. It probably ate around 10-15 peaces of frozen artemia. The thing i am worried about is that it...

Well, Mr. Copperband hasn’t accepted the homemade food for me from my lfs; he took bloodworms three times and hasn’t since. I also got just straight plane mysis, and he isn’t eating it either, he just watches it go by him. He has, though, been picking at my acans, and he cleared all of my...

Hi everyone, A few days ago, I noticed that my Copperband Butterflyfish is covered in kind of strange looking „white coating”, as you can see in the attached photos. I’ve never seen anything like this with any of my fish before. My Moorish Idol is currently dealing with ich, but I don’t think...

Copperband butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus)

I am looking to get a copperband butterfly I have alot of acans and zoas, what has been everyone's experience with keeping one and it going after coral.

CBB is in qt for ich and then I’ll be doing prazi. Fish eating a ton and I think the fish is doing well. However, there’s a single black dot on the fin (see attached video). It’s been there a few days and I don’t see other spots for black ich and it looks too large or pronounced. I don’t think...

Just for fun

Hi all, It’s been a few weeks now since introducing my copperband into the display and it’s eating well on live black worms, clams and muscles. It has a strong appetite and it seems like I picked up a good one.. until last night I observed Ich on the fins/tail. It’s almost impossible to...

I’ve had my new copper band in a qt tank for about three weeks, and my powder blue tang in quarantine for about 2 weeks (this is in copper), I’m starting to remove copper to observe for a week in clean saltwater before putting in my DT tank Now on my copper band I’ve been noticing these white...

I have had my Copperband for 1 month now and am starting the think if what I am feeding is sustainable in the long term. Currently, I feed chopped clam, oyster and scollop which I push into cracks in a rock that is lowered into the tank with a piece of fishing line. The Copperband devours it...

Quarantined some fish for my girlfriend's tank and have 2 extra copperbands for sale approximately 3-3.5 inches in length. Qt consists of formalin, methylene blue, api general cure and feeding soaked foods in metro/focus combo. Fish are aggressively eating frozen mysis shrimp and frozen...