Arabian butterflyfish, easy or difficult

Samandar · Jul 22, 2018

Hi, recently I bought two Arabian butterflyfish from a store that have six of them. They are 5" in size. I let them in 100 Litr Quarantine tank. In the second day one of them begins to eat flake and the second one some days after. Before I bring them to home I read a lot about them. Almost every where had been wrote that they are absolutely difficult. Now after one month they eat every things. Flake, granule, artemia lettuce ....

saltyhog · Jul 22, 2018

Absolutely beautiful fish! Don't know anything other that about this species. Hope they do well and that you keep us updated.... with pictures.

Samandar · Jul 23, 2018

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eatbreakfast · Jul 23, 2018

They are supposed to be very difficult as they are obligate corallivores and corallivores in aquaria usually refuse food. If they are eating that will go a long way toward their care.

I would be very interested in updates.

Jesterrace · Jul 23, 2018

It will take time to know for sure, but it sounds like you lucked out and got some highly adaptable ones. It's sounds similar to leopard wrasses, they don't ship well and can struggle to adjust from a pod based diet, but if they do then they are hearty and relatively easy to care for.

Kmsutows · Jul 23, 2018

eatbreakfast said:
They are supposed to be very difficult as they are obligate corallivores and corallivores in aquaria usually refuse food. If they are eating that will go a long way toward their care.

I would be very interested in updates.

Agree with this post, very intrigued! Good luck!

Bob Weigant · Jul 23, 2018

I hope you succeed. Those fish are awesome in color

Samandar · Jul 24, 2018

Bob Weigant said:
I hope you succeed. Those fish are awesome in color

Thank you, I hope too.

Samandar · Aug 23, 2018

Hi, new news about my Arabian butterflyfishs. Thy are healthy and happy. They eat granule and flack. I am not sure but as you can see in the pictures one of them that I think he male is, has been became a bit slim. Although he takes foods like another one.

Kmsutows · Aug 23, 2018

Samandar said:
Hi, new news about my Arabian butterflyfishs. Thy are healthy and happy. They eat granule and flack. I am not sure but as you can see in the pictures one of them that I think he male is, has been became a bit slim. Although he takes foods like another one.

Wowww awesome!

eatbreakfast · Aug 23, 2018

Samandar said:
Hi, new news about my Arabian butterflyfishs. Thy are healthy and happy. They eat granule and flack. I am not sure but as you can see in the pictures one of them that I think he male is, has been became a bit slim. Although he takes foods like another one.

Has he been treated for internal parasites.

Samandar · Aug 24, 2018

eatbreakfast said:
Has he been treated for internal parasites.

Hi, yes I gave them metronidazole. I let some granule in metronidazole solution for ten minutes and feed the fishes one time per day for five days. Their feces seems to be OK. Another thing with this fish is that he respires rapider than the other one. Except metronidazole I don't have another quality medicine.

Samandar · Sep 21, 2018

Hi, I am so sad. Both of Arabian butterflyfishes has been dead almost suddenly. One of them had deficalty with respiring during last days. But another one was completely OK. The OK one died first. It began to dead respiring and after few hours died. So I don't what happened. All other fishes in the tank are completely OK, one sadel back one yellow tang, one blue tang, one bicolor angel fish one king bleny, one whatch man goby, one fire dart and a sail fin tang, all are OK. As result Arabian butterflyfish is easy but impossible.

eatbreakfast · Sep 21, 2018

Samandar said:
Hi, I am so sad. Both of Arabian butterflyfishes has been dead almost suddenly. One of them had deficalty with respiring during last days. But another one was completely OK. The OK one died first. It began to dead respiring and after few hours died. So I don't what happened. All other fishes in the tank are completely OK, one sadel back one yellow tang, one blue tang, one bicolor angel fish one king bleny, one whatch man goby, one fire dart and a sail fin tang, all are OK. As result Arabian butterflyfish is easy but impossible.

Sorry to hear about the losses. I was really hoping you were going to have success.

Samandar · Sep 21, 2018

Yes, me too.

mobydick · Jul 1, 2022

Samandar said:
Hi, recently I bought two Arabian butterflyfish from a store that have six of them. They are 5" in size. I let them in 100 Litr Quarantine tank. In the second day one of them begins to eat flake and the second one some days after. Before I bring them to home I read a lot about them. Almost every where had been wrote that they are absolutely difficult. Now after one month they eat every things. Flake, granule, artemia lettuce ....

Are they still alive