Copperband not eating

[iamurri33]

What's the trick to getting copperband to eat. He ate when I got him but not eating since I put in my tank. Feeding variety of frozen, flake pellets.. been 2 weeks now..

 

[fishroomlady]

unfortunately, they do have the reputation of being very finicky eaters, you could try adding some garlic to the food to see if that entices it....do you have a lot of pods in your tank?

 

[TUSI]

Try LRs food it get any fish to eat

 

[cpschult]

Have you tried black worms? Supposed to be great for getting them to eat out of water column.

 

[qy7400]

Have you tried black worms? Supposed to be great for getting them to eat out of water column.

Both of mine took right to live black worms, started eating frozen consistently after about 2 months. Larry's fish frenzy food is another favorite.

 

[iamurri33]

Yes I kno they are finicky but since he was eating I didn't think of any problems. I tried rods reef blend, frozen mysis, krill, frozen angels and butterfly blend pellets flakes.... lol I think I will try to grt some black worms and try that.

 

[Duke4Life]

Hate to mention this (and should be banned for even mentioning hahaha), what about some aiptasia? That is a known snack for them.

 

[iamurri33]

I was honestly thinking about taking some and putting them on a veggie clip for him to eat.. my dad has it in his tank. But I really don't wanna get aptasia. Lol

 

[Duke4Life]

I was honestly thinking about taking some and putting them on a veggie clip for him to eat.. my dad has it in his tank. But I really don't wanna get aptasia. Lol

Have a qt? That would solve the issue and you could try without jeopardizing it getting into your DT.

 

[iamurri33]

I had one.. tore it down tho.

 

[Duke4Life]

Time to set back up it sounds like. Take some rock that has aiptasia from your dads tank and add water. Should cycle depending on size fairly quickly, especially if you can get 30+ pounds.

 

[4FordFamily]

Copperband may also eat live brine. Another option to try. Also they tend not to eat when they're even remotely stressed. Too many tankmates- particularly those that look at it wrong or remotely bully it - will cause them to stop eating occasionally.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

ROE is the trick.

 

[maroun.c]

I've trained a few CBB to eat last year and each time it's a different story.
It's important to keep I quarantine till its actively eating and fattens up.
Black worms if you can get them are good for starters then mix with mysis to switch to mysis...
If it stays long without eating I add a few feather dusters from my fudge and put mysis on them. It'll definitely eat the feather dusters and that keep it from starving and also helps revive the nipping reflex as if it stays long without eating it somehow tends to never go back to try to eat... Try again for few weeks with different frozen food including worms and if it doesn't eat give some featherdusters again. I have thousands of tiny featherdusters in my fudge so those help a lot.
Try feeding mussels as ell and also soaking frozen food in entice or garlic...
It's also important to dewormed those as they come with many parasites and feed frequently vitamin soaked food or else they slowly fade away even if eating.
Takes a lot of trial but very rewarding when done. Good luck with it.

 

[hybridazn]

Live black worms or live brine. It should trigger their eating mechanism and then you can slowly ween them off the live food and onto prepared

 

[Elliott ll]

The absolute best thing to get butterflyfish to eat are clams. Clams and then transition to frozen mysis. Frozen mysis you can then transition to pellets with PE mysis pellets and Hikari Seaweed pellets.