Cbb

bknapp · Jan 18, 2014

I posted this in the fish section and was wondering of locals experiences with these fish.

I've been wanting to get a CBB for a while now and a LFS has one in Stock but according to LA they may nip or harass bubble tip anemones. Has anyone else experienced this?

Also any extra care techniques for keeping them would be appreciated.

Thanks.

thejoshdavis · Jan 18, 2014

Jay has one that has been pretty nice so far.

SmyrnaReefer · Jan 18, 2014

I haven't seen mine nip at my rbta. They are just hard to get to eat. The one I got eats like a pig. It also are all my aptasia

palvyre · Jan 18, 2014

The one I had would eat Favia.

bknapp · Jan 18, 2014

SmyrnaReefer said:
I haven't seen mine nip at my rbta. They are just hard to get to eat. The one I got eats like a pig. It also are all my aptasia

Any certain foods yours prefers?

SmyrnaReefer · Jan 18, 2014

Definetly mysis shrimp but starting to munch on some LRS.

bknapp · Jan 18, 2014

Cool, just picked up some PE Mysis today.

pickupman66 · Jan 18, 2014

I've had mine 7 months. Ate all my aptasia. Has not touched either of my bta at all. Took mine 4 months to hit the frozen good. Mine loves frozen mysis and purposely picks that from my frozen cocktail of choice. Get one that iis fat and healthy. Have plenty of pods and aptasia.

bknapp · Jan 18, 2014

He ate a few of the live brine I fed tonight, he responded when other foods were added but I didn't see him eating any. But it's day one and it's a little stressed; hope it gets better with time.

TitansFan · Jan 19, 2014

I had mine for over a year. He did great and I loved him to death. Mysis shrimp was his favorite. Sad day coming home from work and out of the blue finding him breathing hard lying on the sand. Was so sudden.

fireman23 · Jan 19, 2014

Let's see a pic of fish brandon

bknapp · Jan 19, 2014

Here is a not so great phone pic I got of it yesterday.

roadrashpaul · Feb 10, 2014

How is your butterfly doing Brandon? 7 seas has two and I was looking one over pretty hard yesterday. Not sure I want to take the plunge. The owner said he can't get either of them to eat yet....

pickupman66 · Feb 10, 2014

BTW, here is mine.

roadrashpaul · Feb 10, 2014

Such a good looking fish Lindsey. I really want one but I not sure I want to drop the $$ on one for it to starve and not eat.

pickupman66 · Feb 10, 2014

Paul. Having a good healthy population of Aptasia and pods is the key IMO.

roadrashpaul · Feb 10, 2014

pickupman66 said:
Paul. Having a good healthy population of Aptasia and pods is the key IMO.

I think I am good with the pods as I have been buying bags from Emerald bay and my mandarin is FAT but I have no aptasia because my filefish does his job lol.

bknapp · Feb 10, 2014

roadrashpaul said:
How is your butterfly doing Brandon? 7 seas has two and I was looking one over pretty hard yesterday. Not sure I want to take the plunge. The owner said he can't get either of them to eat yet....

Ate at the store and couldn't get it to eat at home.

A very tentative fish, if you have anything remotely aggressive I wouldn't add one.

thegrilledcheesus · Feb 10, 2014

Paul if you really really want to get one that will be for sure healthy, I recommend you take a trip to Atlanta, namely a store called Pure Reef, they have all their fish in hyposalinity for parasites, and also all their CBB are eating flakes before they sell them. I personally wanted one but did not have the space.