Our new Copperband

[Aparker2005]

Just got this little guy in and so excited! This is easily my newest favorite fish behind our clowns. It seems extremely healthy.

It has not stopped picking at rocks and eating.... Stuff from them since I put it in the tank. I've not seen it try any frozen or anything yet. It picked up a small bristleworm in a rock and ate it ferociously.

I'm hoping it eats aiptasia as that's partly why I got it. We've had an outbreak and peppermint shrimp didn't touch it.

Hopefully it starts eating frozen food I've got.

Our PBT did NOT take kindly to the little guy and unfortunately we've had to rehome the tang. It was such a beautiful fish, but caused more issues in our tank than it was worth.

 

[HuduVudu]

Just got this little guy in and so excited! This is easily my newest favorite fish behind our clowns. It seems extremely healthy.

It has not stopped picking at rocks and eating.... Stuff from them since I put it in the tank. I've not seen it try any frozen or anything yet. It picked up a small bristleworm in a rock and ate it ferociously.

I'm hoping it eats aiptasia as that's partly why I got it. We've had an outbreak and peppermint shrimp didn't touch it.

Hopefully it starts eating frozen food I've got.

Our PBT did NOT take kindly to the little guy and unfortunately we've had to rehome the tang. It was such a beautiful fish, but caused more issues in our tank than it was worth.

Butterflies love white worms.

 

[Aparker2005]

Butterflies love white worms.

Gonna try those eventually and some clams this weekend. Still not hitting the aiptasia lol

 

[Goaway]

Just got this little guy in and so excited! This is easily my newest favorite fish behind our clowns. It seems extremely healthy.

I assume you got him in today?

 

[Aparker2005]

I assume you got him in today?

Tuesday. It's been non stop checking rocks and pulling what looks to be red worms from some rocks and eating them

 

[Goaway]

Tuesday. It's been non stop checking rocks and pulling what looks to be red worms from some rocks and eating them

He looked like he was grazing for food. About 3-4" yuh?

 

[Aparker2005]

He looked like he was grazing for food. About 3-4" yuh?

Around 2.5 to 3

 

[Goaway]

Around 2.5 to 3

Good size, I hope you get to enjoy him for years
I love mine!
Once he starts to eat prepared food. You'll go nuts being able to hand feed them!

 

[Aparker2005]

Gonna try some clams tomorrow!

 

[i cant think]

Once he starts to eat prepared food. You'll go nuts being able to hand feed them!

They really go crazy around food. Mine will head-but the pot I use for feeding the fish and the CBB is the first one in the corner to feed. The only butterfly that could ever beat a CBB in my opinion is a true Forcipiger longirostris (My dream butterfly to own now I have a CBB). This is purely because of the long nose and just seeing it on a fully grown specimen would be stunning.
Here’s my 2 year old Chelmon rostratum. Hell eat anything and everything (Even thinks my hand is food… along with the clown).

 

[Aparker2005]

Ours has already become my wife's favorite. If I can get it to start going to town on this aiptasia that's taking over, I'll be even happier. If we continue to have success with it, it's definitely a fish we will always have one of

 

[Hal3134]

CBB's love worms and clams. I feed frozen blackworms to mine since white worms are not readily available. I also buy small live clams, split them open, and drop them in the tank, which it attacks. You can freeze the clams first if you prefer.

My CBB took several months before I noticed it going after my aiptasia. Be patient.

 

[Aparker2005]

Success with frozen bloodworms. I know this probably isn't the best thing to feed this little guy but he's absolutely destroying them. First thing I've seen him go after with a purpose other than his constant rock picking. Fingers crossed this leads to more success!

 

[mtraylor]

They like scolys and expensive chalices too. Most definitely one of my favorite fishs

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Meet “Bah” have had him for going on three years now. Happens to like Enriched Brine, Mysis and larger PE Mysis. If it has the shape of a crustacean, he’s on it. Of course like yours picking on rocks. “Pods”!!! Thankfully a taste for Aptasias as well. If I remember it took a few months at the beginning. Definitely a beautiful fish. Congrats on yours.

 

[Lutzerman]

If you get desperate, grab a two little fishies pouch feeder and put some frozen or mastik in there. They are beautiful and great for pest control but they run out of food fast and mine never ate from the water column. Especially if there are a lot of other aggressive eaters in there. I'm going on 3 years with my guy. I feed the tank with the pouch feeder every other day or so.

 

[Aparker2005]

Still eating bloodworms and maybe some brine and chopped scallops. Not interested in mysis, oysters or clams yet.

Would. Freeze dried black worms like people use for discus work? I had them when I had discus and they went nuts for them. I can't get live worms and don't have the extra time to keep them alive I don't think.

 

[Goaway]

Still eating bloodworms and maybe some brine and chopped scallops. Not interested in mysis, oysters or clams yet.

Would. Freeze dried black worms like people use for discus work? I had them when I had discus and they went nuts for them. I can't get live worms and don't have the extra time to keep them alive I don't think.

Never did freeze dried for my cbb. I think it can cause bloat for sw fish. May want to ask @Jay Hemdal .

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Never did freeze dried for my cbb. I think it can cause bloat for sw fish. May want to ask @Jay Hemdal .

If you rehydrate the freeze dried foods, they are safe to feed to marine fish. I once fed freeze dried tubifex worms to a tank of 100 tiger barbs. I over fed them. You should have seen them bob around the tank, they were like little corks! They were all o.k. the next day.

Did you know that a LOT of people develop allergies to bloodworms? You need to be careful.

Jay

 

[Goaway]

If you rehydrate the freeze dried foods, they are safe to feed to marine fish. I once fed freeze dried tubifex worms to a tank of 100 tiger barbs. I over fed them. You should have seen them bob around the tank, they were like little corks! They were all o.k. the next day.

Did you know that a LOT of people develop allergies to bloodworms? You need to be careful.

Jay

Thanks for all the info!

I guess those fw fish can get bloated with freeze dried too

I didn't know we could get allergies from those worms. Yikes