Ebay. What I ordered wasn't enough to feed the fish from but they're very easy to culture. I now have a endless supply of fish food, and every fish in the tank will readily eat them, including my mandarin.
IMO as much as you can get the cbb to eat. One issue is they, at least in the beginning, are timid eaters. So you have to make sure they get food before other fish in the tank eat all of the food. I'd try to start it in a qt tank so there isn't any competition for food.
I just have a few plastic tubs in my utility room, luckily they don't stink as long as you don't let extra food sit in there and rot. I don't have any local place to get live white or black worms so culturing my own was my only option.
I don't think my wife has been in the utility room since we moved into the house. I could've just done it and she would've never known.
If it were me I would probably try feeding it twice a day, but I'm not sure if that's necessary. The important thing is just getting it to eat. As for what to feed it I would try to feed what it was already eating. The live food is just something that it is more likely to accept.
The only time that over feeding is an issue in this hobby is when you are putting in so much food that your water quality suffers.
It’s not a beginner fish. It is the most challenging fish I’ve had to get eating. This include a multibar angel and 4 orange spot filefish....if your tank isn’t crawling with micro fauna from live rock (not dry rock), then the tank needs a minimum of a year to mature.
There aren’t any easy butterfly fish. It is considered easier than a copperband, but still considered moderately difficult. Most butterfly fish also can get very large 7”+ and need at least 125 gallon tank. They are all also iffy in a reef tank as many of them will eat LPS coral.
