My newest family member

Jedi1199 · Sep 27, 2023

I needed to restock my frozen foods today, so I took a drive out to my favorite LFS.

As always, I had to roam the fish room for a bit while I was there. What do my wandering eyes see? A real beauty and it looks healthy!! I call over one of the workers and ask if I can see him eat and sure enough he nibbled a couple flakes. OK bro, bag him up!!! $49.95 later and he was in the car in his insulated box for the 45 minute drive to his new home.

Currently he is acclimating in his bag. I will most likely release him about an hour after lights out tonight.

And here his is in all his beauty (well if you can ignore the wrinkles in the plastic bag... lol)

KrisReef · Sep 27, 2023

Got Aiptasia for that fish to nibble?

Shut the lights out early and let em out! Pretty fish, btw.

Jedi1199 · Sep 27, 2023

KrisReef said:
Got Aiptasia for that fish to nibble?

More than I care to admit to.. lol

Tuan’s Reef · Sep 27, 2023

Wow $50 for a CBB . Good find. I would of bag him too

Jedi1199 · Sep 27, 2023

Tuan’s Reef said:
Wow $50 for a CBB . Good find. I would of bag him too

Exactly!! I was eyeballing a Clown Tang in the same tank, but I already have several Tangs. Plus, I have a LOT of Aiptasia and that CBB just needed to come home with me. At that price I couldn't pass it up.

Even the gal at the register was like "WOW that's a great price"

Jedi1199 · Sep 27, 2023

Ok, he is in the tank now!!! The Yellow and Mata tangs are checking him out... I turned the lights way down (100% blue and 5% intensity) I want to observe for a while but also not have full lights running...

spoons · Sep 27, 2023

Jedi1199 said:
I needed to restock my frozen foods today, so I took a drive out to my favorite LFS.

As always, I had to roam the fish room for a bit while I was there. What do my wandering eyes see? A real beauty and it looks healthy!! I call over one of the workers and ask if I can see him eat and sure enough he nibbled a couple flakes. OK bro, bag him up!!! $49.95 later and he was in the car in his insulated box for the 45 minute drive to his new home.

Currently he is acclimating in his bag. I will most likely release him about an hour after lights out tonight.

And here his is in all his beauty (well if you can ignore the wrinkles in the plastic bag... lol)

lucky man!!

i cant think · Sep 28, 2023

Jedi1199 said:
I needed to restock my frozen foods today, so I took a drive out to my favorite LFS.

As always, I had to roam the fish room for a bit while I was there. What do my wandering eyes see? A real beauty and it looks healthy!! I call over one of the workers and ask if I can see him eat and sure enough he nibbled a couple flakes. OK bro, bag him up!!! $49.95 later and he was in the car in his insulated box for the 45 minute drive to his new home.

Currently he is acclimating in his bag. I will most likely release him about an hour after lights out tonight.

And here his is in all his beauty (well if you can ignore the wrinkles in the plastic bag... lol)

Make sure to feed plenty of Mysis and possibly Bloodworms;

I cut down on mysis to 1 cube a day recently so that I could feed more of a variety. And I also stopped Bloodworms altogether. This combo was a bad move as my CBB of 4 years went incredibly skinny within a week.

I’m now feeding mysis and bloodworms again but it’s not easy to have her regain health. She’s bouncing back but it’s harder to get her to be so far this time (here’s what she looked like a year or two ago).

However even with this issue she’s still one of the easier fish I’ve got. And I’m not trying to scare you away from this fish but more so trying to help you to learn from my mistakes

And yes, somehow people prefer this beauty over my designer clownfish… but I guess it’s not like they’re going for my clownfish over a ~140USD fish anymore.

JoJosReef · Sep 28, 2023

Saw a video of a CBB going to town on frozen/thawed blended oysters or clams, don't remember which. In case you find feeding a challenge.

Jedi1199 · Sep 28, 2023

i cant think said:
Make sure to feed plenty of Mysis and possibly Bloodworms;

I cut down on mysis to 1 cube a day recently so that I could feed more of a variety. And I also stopped Bloodworms altogether. This combo was a bad move as my CBB of 4 years went incredibly skinny within a week.

I’m now feeding mysis and bloodworms again but it’s not easy to have her regain health. She’s bouncing back but it’s harder to get her to be so far this time (here’s what she looked like a year or two ago).

However even with this issue she’s still one of the easier fish I’ve got. And I’m not trying to scare you away from this fish but more so trying to help you to learn from my mistakes
And yes, somehow people prefer this beauty over my designer clownfish… but I guess it’s not like they’re going for my clownfish over a ~140USD fish anymore.

I feed my tank a mix of about 10 different frozen cubes. I mix up about a weeks worth at a time. Reef pack, coral cuisine, brine shrimp, Mysis, cyclops, seaweed, emerald, plankton, reef plankton, squid, mussels.. I feed about 6 tablespoonfulls of this blend daily. seems to work for what I have had in my tank.. Based on this, I may add a cube extra of Mysis per day.

Jedi1199 · Sep 29, 2023

So it has been 28 or so hours now since I released this beauty into the tank. He sat in the corner behind a rock all of last night and most of today. About 2 hours ago he decided to start exploring a bit. I see him swimming around now. He is taking frozen mysis a few here and there. Haven't seen him nibbling on any of the Aiptasia yet. Just the fact he's not hiding behind the rock is encouraging.

Jedi1199 · Sep 29, 2023

Oh and other than a cursory examination by the Yellow and Mata tangs, nobody has shown any aggression whatsoever towards him.

Jedi1199 · Sep 29, 2023

Out of curiosity, I did a quick search online for CBB of the same size available. The cheapest I saw, for a fish about 3/4 this size was double what I paid PLUS shipping!!

One about the same was triple, PLUS shipping!!