Hi Fin Coradion Butteflyfish

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Looking ahead to my next addition to my 125 softie/lps/nem tank. Currently has a Tahitian Butteflyfish. I've been debating about adding an Atlantic longnose or an Australian Copperband when I notice the Coradion on LA. Reef safe "with caution" supposedly. Anyone have any experience with them. So far searches have come up empty on specifics. Since they are a little smaller than copperband it might fit better scale wise with the rest of the tank.
 
The longnose Atlantic longnose butterflyfish is one that I have been looking at for a while and everything I have read suggests that it is a great member of the reef tank. I have also looked into the Coradion butterfly, and I too have not found much. There was one on diversden a couple months back for a few days and I was going to get it, but it was listed as expert only, so it made me rethink it long enough for it to get sold. Hope that helps!
 
interesting. They have them in stock at LA currently and list them as moderate care level. I always have trouble with the reef safe "with caution" label because it's too general of a term. Sometimes it means they definitely eat coral x, but not usually y or z. Other times it's they might eat anything but not always and I've even see sometimes where it say it's because they will pick at feather dusters and clams. Without more detailed information it's basically Russian roulette.

I used to have an Atlantic longnose in my sps tank. He never bothered any coral. He was a challenge to get eating prepared food though. Seemed to prefer just hunting on the rockwork for pods/worms I guess. I lost him unfortunately. Introduced a Tomini tang that was a little bigger than him but he kept trying to pick a fight with it. The Tomini finally got fed up and fought back. The buttefly lost and never recovered from the injury. I'm hoping to try another in this tank. I see them occasionally on LA, KPaquatics, Fishybusiness, and Bluezoo. It's been a month or two since I saw them last though.
 
Well I scored an Atlantic longnose from KP Aquatics. I think I was on the waiting list for a year or more :)

Still hoping someone has some experience with the Hi Fin in a reef tank?

Beuller........Beuller? :)
 

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