So copperband butterfly's eat rock flower anemones?

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I know they eat aiptasia, but will they eat rock flower anemones? Babies or full grown?
Also, I know they are reef safe the majority of the time, but if anyone has any experience, please tell :)
 

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Any butterfly might eat anything. Every individual has different preferences. Some wont touch aiptasia, some devour it readily. Some eat only small some eat any size. I had a copperband eat a conch. I have heard of them harassing bubble tips to death, and other large aneone. I had a Burgess who loved to harass rock flowers the first day they were in the tank but after that he left them alone.

It all comes down to the individual butterfly.
 

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I know they eat aiptasia, but will they eat rock flower anemones? Babies or full grown?
Also, I know they are reef safe the majority of the time, but if anyone has any experience, please tell :)
Mine ate my can and torch.... left my anemone all alone. He is defentily cute and can eat what ever he wants. lol
 

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