Breeding a copperband btterfly?

[GHOSTLY]

Here me out. If they eat pests like aiptasia could you get a female and male and treat them like bergia nudibranchs? Has anyone ever bred them?

 

[i cant think]

Here me out. If they eat pests like aiptasia could you get a female and male and treat them like bergia nudibranchs? Has anyone ever bred them?

I think there has been one place that has successfully bred CBBs, getting a female and male however is near to impossible unless they come in as a pair

 

[Paul B]

They have bred them, but not in a home tank.

 

[ying yang]

Sexual dimorphism identification of Chelmon rostratus, the Copperband Butterfly,

From the horse mouth, people who successfully pair, breed and raised Copperband Butterflies Jirayuth Ruensirikul, Mavit Assava-aree, Atra Chaimongkol, Sirawan Bunchai, and Khwantana Ongart of Coastal Aquaculture Research Institute and Nakhonsithammarat Coastal Fisheries Research and Development...

www.reef2reef.com

Little thread i read.can sex them but getting them to pair was very low %

 

[GHOSTLY]

They have bred them, but not in a home tank.

How did they?

 

[Paul B]

In a large public type setting. Copperbands are egg scatters (I think) and like tangs, won't spawn unless the tank is large enough

 

[i cant think]

How did they?

I don’t quite know how they did it, I’ve not looked into it as much as I should have but I think they were the only fish in the tank and it was probably a rather large tank. I may be wrong but I’d guess it was a very large tank (This was typed out around an hour ago but never sent, oops)

 

[GHOSTLY]

In a large public type setting. Copperbands are egg scatters (I think) and like tangs, won't spawn unless the tank is large enough

How big of a tank do you think?

 

[Gp!]

How big of a tank do you think?

Soooo big, I think...

 

[ying yang]

UF/IFAS IRREC Successfully Aquacultures the Copperband Butterflyfish, Chelmon rostratus! – Rising Tide Conservation

www.risingtideconservation.org

One of a few articles about them breeding these guys did it in a 1600 litre system so thats about 425 gallons give or take

 

[Isopod80]

Needless to say, you're not going to breed CBB in your tank for aiptasia control. That would be like trying to catch a fly with chopsticks.....only Mr. Miyagi can do that...and it still took him until the second movie to pull it off. There are much easier ways to control aiptasia.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Needless to say, you're not going to breed CBB in your tank for aiptasia control. That would be like trying to catch a fly with chopsticks.....only Mr. Miyagi can do that...and it still took him until the second movie to pull it off. There are much easier ways to control aiptasia.

i dont have an aiptasia problem nor do i have a big tank. I was just thinking it would be cool to breed them as I had 1 trained before

 

[GHOSTLY]

UF/IFAS IRREC Successfully Aquacultures the Copperband Butterflyfish, Chelmon rostratus! – Rising Tide Conservation

www.risingtideconservation.org

One of a few articles about them breeding these guys did it in a 1600 litre system so thats about 425 gallons give or take

only 425? i was thinking 9000 liters (2000 Gallon) where it is filled and like the wild

 

[Paul B]

I was just thinking it would be cool to breed them as I had 1 trained before

Yes it would, but it would be easier if you trained one to text than to breed in a smaller, home tank.

 

[i cant think]

Honestly, if it was possible to breed CBBs in home aquariums I would be doing it already. They’re shush a nice fish and it’d be great to raise ones already eating in captivity, and to have them for longer periods of time

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

YouTube Visiting ORA, for a Start. Then you’ll get recommendations on similar YouTube Videos. They are Talking 2,000 and up Gallon Vats, on one of the Videos, I saw on YouTube. They used Natural Sea Water that was filtered and UV Treated, on a Video shot on a South Pacific Island. BTW Check out the Surge Device on ORA Coral Farm. I made something similar using two Half Moon Containers, I bought from the Container Store. They were mounted to the side of my overhead cabinet. My Wife made me take it down, the noise bothered her.