New copperband butterfly

[pythpyth]

Hi all!

Finally I got one, it is one with quite a nice size. The LFS said it is on mysis. I got it in yesterday evening.

It is doing well, foraging on the reef. It is picking at stuff on the reef and my fish leave him alone.

I got garlic guard, live and frozen bloodworms and live whiteworms. But it doesnt seem interested. For now he isn’t interested in mysis either. My own mixture contains; fish eggs, krill, artemia, copepods, cyclops and mysis. Which it has no interest in either.

I still could try brine? And read about black worms? I can only get them live though and they are quite hard to get here so that wouldn’t be optimal.

Any tips or should I be happy as it is at the moment?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

#reefsquad

 

[Baldyreef]

if it was truly eating mysis at the lfs then it may be just adjusting to a new environment but if it continues to not eat you could try live foods like brine shrimp and like you mentioned, black worms (which would be the best for enticing it to eat)

 

[coralcollector98]

Hi all!

Finally I got one, it is one with quite a nice size. The LFS said it is on mysis. I got it in yesterday evening.

It is doing well, foraging on the reef. It is picking at stuff on the reef and my fish leave him alone.

I got garlic guard, live and frozen bloodworms and live whiteworms. But it doesnt seem interested. For now he isn’t interested in mysis either. My own mixture contains; fish eggs, krill, artemia, copepods, cyclops and mysis. Which it has no interest in either.

I still could try brine? And read about black worms? I can only get them live though and they are quite hard to get here so that wouldn’t be optimal.

Any tips or should I be happy as it is at the moment?

try doing live baby brine, I just got mine to start eating Mysis, first started with the blood worms then switched to Mysis !

 

[Areseebee]

Blackworms. Copperbands can not resist blackworms. See if you can find a live source near you. I've also had success with freeze dried blackworm cubes I get on amazon from aquarem in a red bag. I would try to start with live though and then work from there.

 

[pythpyth]

Blackworms. Copperbands can not resist blackworms. See if you can find a live source near you. I've also had success with freeze dried blackworm cubes I get on amazon from aquarem in a red bag. I would try to start with live though and then work from there.

Ordered 7 pouches of black worms and 2 pouches of live brine, all the store had left. I do think it’ll take 2 days to get here. Should I first feed them without mixing with anything? And maybe later on mix them? To get it to start feeding on the other frozen food as well?

 

[Areseebee]

For live I would just drop them right in. For freeze dried I'm not sure, I just found those cubes with my latest butterfly and that was when he was already eating live (and I got sick of driving to get more every week). He took to them immediately but I don't know if he would have had I not started him on live.

I've had 3 copperbands in my life and they all required blackworms to get going but eventually transitioned to mysis and brine. I was told my current one was eating brine, he really wasn't at least not meaningfully, but he INSTANTLY went insatiably for live blackworms. . This butterfly is by far the worst one I've had at picking stuff out of the water column, he's just like not a natural, I don't know. I eventually bought him a little magnetic feeder with the holes and mixed blackworms and mysis and he eventually has taken to it more and more, although I still am trying to figure out how to target him with more food (the stupid tang has realized that if we waits near the butterfly feeder long enough, food will just float out so he guards it with his life when I put it in).

 

[AviR]

Live brine worked for me. After that I transitioned to feeding live brine and a frozen at the same time then went to straight frozen brine and mysis

 

[pythpyth]

For live I would just drop them right in. For freeze dried I'm not sure, I just found those cubes with my latest butterfly and that was when he was already eating live (and I got sick of driving to get more every week). He took to them immediately but I don't know if he would have had I not started him on live.

I've had 3 copperbands in my life and they all required blackworms to get going but eventually transitioned to mysis and brine. I was told my current one was eating brine, he really wasn't at least not meaningfully, but he INSTANTLY went insatiably for live blackworms. . This butterfly is by far the worst one I've had at picking stuff out of the water column, he's just like not a natural, I don't know. I eventually bought him a little magnetic feeder with the holes and mixed blackworms and mysis and he eventually has taken to it more and more, although I still am trying to figure out how to target him with more food (the stupid tang has realized that if we waits near the butterfly feeder long enough, food will just float out so he guards it with his life when I put it in).

Ah happy that I ordered some then. Hopefully that or the live brine will work. Or eventually it’ll take mysis. I knew it would be a fight, but yea it is such a pretty fish.