copperbanned butterfly

yong269

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I have this copperbanned butterfly and was wondering if anyone else have it. What do you feed? Mine doesn't seem to be eating anything... i have pellets, flakes, mysis shrimp....
 
You can bring him to my house to eat all of my aiptasia!
 
Mine loves the ArctiPods, as well as live pods. I have been getting them from AquaBuys lately. You can keep live brine shrimp for some days in almost anything as long as you aerate them. I have gotten those from Aquarium Showcase in the past... have not gotten any lately. If it is really not eating, you need to get food in it ASAP.

Mine will also now eat frozen Mysis shrimp.

My experience with them eating Aiptasia is that they must be eating them while they are very small, but they don't seem to mess with the larger ones. After I got mine, I did a sweep with Joe's Juce (as I had done many times before) and this time they did not come back...

Good luck!


-Mike
 
Yong269;60607 wrote: where do you keep the brine shrimp?
well i keep them in a 5g that is areated with an air pump and that is all u need to do but u can also enrich them.
 
Mine loved to eat the frozen clams out of the salt water mix food. Where did you get it. Mine died and I will be looking for a replacement as he was my favorite fish to watch. Good luck
 
Yong269;60607 wrote: where do you keep the brine shrimp?

In a small plastic container in the fridge. Several tsp. in a quart of salt water will keep them alive for about a week. The cold water slows down their metabolism, so they stay fresher longer.

Also, always ask to see a Coppeband eat before you buy one. They're very finicky. Someone elses problem shouldn't become yours, especially when you're paying them good money for it.
 
I have a copperband in my tank also,and he loves Frozen Brine and Omega one Marine flakes.
 
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