Acclimating new butterflyfish - Suggestions needed

jmadden93 · 01/09/2010, 05:32 PM

I have an established 125gal non reef tank (running 18 months with lots of live rock and good water quality... nitrates about 20ppm) that I'm now intoducing two butterfly fish to (one is a copperband & one is a heniochus butterfly).

I know these are hard fish to keep alive & feeding. Any advice you can give me on how to properly acclimate them & get them to eat would be appreciated! I only have 10 small green chromus, 1 med foxface, 2 small wrasses, 1 clown. It's a peaceful tank.

Thanks!

OneArmedBandit · 01/10/2010, 05:04 AM

Certainly QT them for 4-6 weeks! Preferrably seperately to help get the Copperband to eat. Read this post too, lots of good info here. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1492696
-Steve

LobsterOfJustice · 01/10/2010, 05:40 AM

Yes, disease reasons aside this is a good idea to give the copperband in particular a chance to take to prepared foods without the competition for food of all the fish in your main tank.

Crustman · 01/10/2010, 01:46 PM

CBB is a great reef fish. My Yellow tang and Foxface tried to attack it when it was introduced. It would hide and I would slowly coax it out with PE Mysis. Now they get along fine. A well established aquarium is important so the butterfies can forage.

boxer385 · 01/10/2010, 04:59 PM

i want a CBB i'm hesitate because will it eat my coral i have a mixed reef system?

01/09/2010, 05:32 PM	#1
jmadden93 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 28	Acclimating new butterflyfish - Suggestions needed I have an established 125gal non reef tank (running 18 months with lots of live rock and good water quality... nitrates about 20ppm) that I'm now intoducing two butterfly fish to (one is a copperband & one is a heniochus butterfly). I know these are hard fish to keep alive & feeding. Any advice you can give me on how to properly acclimate them & get them to eat would be appreciated! I only have 10 small green chromus, 1 med foxface, 2 small wrasses, 1 clown. It's a peaceful tank. Thanks!

01/10/2010, 05:04 AM	#2
OneArmedBandit Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utica, MI Posts: 142	Certainly QT them for 4-6 weeks! Preferrably seperately to help get the Copperband to eat. Read this post too, lots of good info here. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1492696 -Steve __________________ Current tank: ~150 gal. Display (FOWLR), 75 gal. Sump (50 gal. actual water volume), 400 lbs. LR

01/10/2010, 05:40 AM	#3
LobsterOfJustice Recovering Detritophobe Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Cary, NC Posts: 7,443	Yes, disease reasons aside this is a good idea to give the copperband in particular a chance to take to prepared foods without the competition for food of all the fish in your main tank. __________________ If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. I remember when zoanthids were called things like "green" and "orange" and not "reverse gorilla nipple." Current Tank Info: 180g reef with all the bells and whistles

01/10/2010, 01:46 PM	#4
Crustman Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Mobile, Alabama Posts: 941	CBB is a great reef fish. My Yellow tang and Foxface tried to attack it when it was introduced. It would hide and I would slowly coax it out with PE Mysis. Now they get along fine. A well established aquarium is important so the butterfies can forage. __________________ Tom Current Tank Info: 65 gallon reef with 8 T-5's, ATI Blue Plus, Blue Special, KZ Fiji Purple, Vertex IN 100, phosphate and carbon reactor Coralife Turbo Sea Pump

01/10/2010, 04:59 PM	#5
boxer385 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: University Park, illinois Posts: 1,718	i want a CBB i'm hesitate because will it eat my coral i have a mixed reef system?