Copperband Butterfly

[leighton.bingham]

Looking to buy one of these to help with Bristol worms. I dont have any coral that survived the great storm of Dinos. But I do have a large amount of Bristol worms. has any had luck with them eating Bristol worms?

 

[kzenoni]

I believe you would do better with a wrasse

 

[leighton.bingham]

I believe you would do better with a wrasse

Do you know which wrasse?

 

[Oldreefer44]

Melanurus or six line although, IMO, likely losing battle. Acquiring fish to eradicate a specific pest is always a gamble because they may decide to ignore them completely. Never heard of a CBB eating them.

 

[Tamberav]

Arrow crab eat bristle worms like candy. I probably would not put one with small nano fish.

CBB won't eat them, they like little feather dusters.

 

[leighton.bingham]

Arrow crab eat bristle worms like candy. I probably would not put one with small nano fish.

CBB won't eat them, they like little feather dusters.

Arrow crabs are to scary for my kids lol

 

[exnisstech]

Are the bristle worms bothering anything? I have them in all of my tanks but only see them if I move a rocks or come out on the middle of the night and look at things. They a good CUC member IMO

 

[paragrouper]

I don’t worry about them overmuch myself, but my wife cannot stand them. So every few weeks, I put in a Bristleworm trap (from @Printed Reef ) and that seems to keep the population under control.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I would not get a copperband. They are hit or miss, and need a non aggressive tank. This has limited my future fish choices. So the copperband is my center piece fish and all others based on this one fish. Just my 2 cents