Our new Copperband

[Aparker2005]

It seems this one has slacked on taking out aiptasia, or else has eaten all the small ones and has left the medium/large ones alone. It is absolutely destroying any and every frozen food though. Fat and healthy, going after other fish if they try to take its food lol. Can't give enough credit to @NYAquatic for getting quality copoerbands in. This one is our favorite fish.

Looks like I'm gonna have to temporarily add a Kleini butterfly for this aiptasia takeover and hope it doesn't go after corals. The aips are killing some though, so it's time to do something more.

 

[42Freeman]

Did he end up cleaning aptasia?

 

[Aparker2005]

Did he end up cleaning aptasia?

It was and now seems to have stopped. We've got a lot of big and medium ones. It cleaned up all the little ones that I can see though

 

[OrionN]

Here is mine.

 

[OrionN]

I love CBB. He fulfills work requirement of keeping my tank clear of aiptasia and a very beautiful fish also.

 

[Aparker2005]

And just my luck, something has went crazy with this copperband. Last night I noticed it being extremely skiddish and swimming very erratically.

It was eating fine just now, and then started swimming crazily and slamming into every rock in the tank. It landed where the orange shoulder tang sleeps, and now I see the orange shoulder completely taking going after it. Pretty sure it may already far too gone. That literally took seconds to happen, out of nowhere.

I got the copperband moved to our 20g reef, and it's up and swimming completely calm now. I swear, I can't keep any fish with these copper bands. Everything tries to kill them! The orange shoulder hasn't even looked at the copperband until it started swimming crazy and landed where it sleeps.

I'll be completely done with copperbands now if this one passes. Our yellow long nose isn't remotely acting this way.

For aiptasia control, I'm thinking of either a threadfin or kleini temporarily. Any ideas which would be better should this not make it?

And now if it does, we obviously want it to stay in our 125, so I guess I'll have to rehome yet another "peaceful" fish.

 

[Aparker2005]

I just don't understand why every copperband we've tried, eventually one fish turns one them, and really only them. The yellow longnose is doing just fine, and the tang and copperband have been swimming together just fine.

It only started tail slapping some when it went to this erratic swimming and going into the tangs sleeping area. Other than that, it never messed with it.

I at least for now saved the copperband and it's up in the 20 now.

 

[Aparker2005]

If any food touches the cbb now, it just goes absolutely crazy. Literally no idea what has happened.

 

[Aparker2005]

So now we're wondering what we should do.

It ate fine thus morning, then went absolutely nuts and that causes the tang to attack it.

Now in the 20g, of course it's not eating.

Do I give it a day or two and put it back in the 125 with the tang, or is this likely another tang I'm gonna have to get rid of?

What is it with copperbands, and I'm guessing yellow long nose butterflies just aren't as fragile?

 

[Aparker2005]

Well another update. We just decided we didn't want to lose this gorgeous tang over such a delicate fish, so I just put the copoerband back in the 125 and whatever happens, happens.

It is already back to eating mysis, so fingers crossed it was just a 1 day random thing

 

[Goaway]

Was the cbb ever treated for flukes?

 

[Aparker2005]

Was the cbb ever treated for flukes?

Not that I know of

 

[Goaway]

Not that I know of

The behavior you described could be fluke related. My wrasse did that. He was infested and died after a fw dip. He would dash into rocks and dislodge scales.

 

[Goaway]

Cbbs do twitch their heads. This can't help with fluke diagnosing.

 

[Placenta89]

Best fish ever!!! Hilarious to watch :). I got mine to feed with masstick and started mixing in pellets for extra nutrition. Now he's eating frozen mysis and krill oddly enough but he won't touch clams for some reason. My two clowns have started bullying him though which is really sad and kinda makes me hate the clowns. I have a seperate feeder I built as well for him and the clowns aren't able to eat from it but even though they can't access the food they bully him away so he can't eat either. Seriously considering getting rid of them just because the copperband is probably my favorite fish of all time just for personality and I will do whatever it takes to keep him for years and years!

 

[Aparker2005]

Best fish ever!!! Hilarious to watch :). I got mine to feed with masstick and started mixing in pellets for extra nutrition. Now he's eating frozen mysis and krill oddly enough but he won't touch clams for some reason. My two clowns have started bullying him though which is really sad and kinda makes me hate the clowns. I have a seperate feeder I built as well for him and the clowns aren't able to eat from it but even though they can't access the food they bully him away so he can't eat either. Seriously considering getting rid of them just because the copperband is probably my favorite fish of all time just for personality and I will do whatever it takes to keep him for years and years!

We love them too, but with the likely possibility of them just waking up dead one day over most other fish, or crazy love for them has went down some. Still wish they aren't so difficult. My wife and I love ours

 

[Placenta89]

We love them too, but with the likely possibility of them just waking up dead one day over most other fish, or crazy love for them has went down some. Still wish they aren't so difficult. My wife and I love ours

They eat a lot. Really had to up my filtration. Basically feed them until I go to bed. Once they get on prepared foods they aren't difficult. Gonna start culturing live brine this weekend so I hope I can cut back on feedings and he can just hunt all day. I run a uv sterilizer 24/7 now as well because I fear for any infection. Hope yours lives for a long time

 

[Aparker2005]

Everything seems to be back to normal tonight. It's eating, but being a little more shy than it was previously

 

[Aparker2005]

Day 2 after the attack and it's a completely different fish. Hiding, shying from food.

Overnight we went from the best copperband back to what the others have done. It is still swimming and did try to pick at food last night, but missed it. Today, it swims away from food.

 

[Aparker2005]

I'm wondering if it's just a cbb shape, or their stripes, or something else that makes them such a target. It's maddening that 3 of them have been the main and just about only target for aggression in our tanks.