Copperband butterfly

[FiReBReTHa]

I want to make a poll for people who have OWNED thi fish THEMSELF!

no living thru your friends, etc.

 

[cee]

Softies no, acans and other LPS yes.

 

[Gimili the Great]

mine has been a model citizen

 

[FiReBReTHa]

oops,i shold also ask what you feed yours!!

Danke!

 

[COReefer]

owned no but in the store where I work we carry them on occasion and I have seen a couple of rogue copperbands that would nip at clams and lps but I would say 80 percent have been models

 

[Gimili the Great]

mine is eating mysis, brine w/ spirulina, little pieces of krill and those froze butterfly mix cubes from san fran bay and aiptasia on occasion

 

[nahtanoj]

i have 2, the eat mysis for food, i have been trying for 2 years on one of them to get it to eat pellets, not yet. they will eat tube worms(mine do). they have never touched a single coral or clam. they eat any aiptasia that pops up. but, i can't keep coco worms, which is a bummer because i really want one. i like the fish better though.

 

[EliteReefs]

mine never bothers anything. well unless you count aptasia.

other then that it eats a mysid mix that i feed. great fish and never causes a problem

 

[FiReBReTHa]

U guys give me great hopes to aquire one!

 

[JR's Reef]

I thought they only pick on LPS if they picked on anything

 

[TritonsGarden]

Devoured two large feather dusters within 10 minutes of adding them to the tank. Other than that, no problems.

Jack

 

[oceanparadise1]

Have had one in the past, never touched anything that I had! It eat frozen like a champ! The 180 I'm getting in 3 weeks has one and it hasn't touched anything in years from what I'm told! Destroys aips those!

 

[FiReBReTHa]

what do you guys think of this coppers behavior?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkE_G3ZU4k[/youtube]
YouTube - 09 06 26 swimmingcurrent

 

[Reef Pets]

Beautiful fish!! I had one in a reef for several years, always fed it frozen brine. Then one day it decided to start biting every LPS in the tanks. So, I started feeding it the fish more hoping that it would stop..... In the end I had to rip my reef tank a part to get it out.
I am not much of a fish person but I have heard and read that there are two different types of Copperbands, one that loves to eat coral and one that does not. It might be worth checking into before purchasing one. From my understanding there markings are slightly different..

 

[FiReBReTHa]

do they reallyswim like that all the time??

 

[Reef Pets]

It looks like the fish is playing around in the current thats coming from the pump on the left.