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Old 12/16/2007, 02:41 PM
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Copperband Butterfly

has any one had much success keeping copperband butterfly, my
copperband basically starved to death after about 4 months, only
picked food of the rocks and nothing else
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Old 12/16/2007, 02:57 PM
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There are quite a few people who keep them succesfully. Always make sur ethey eat before you take them home from the LFS
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Old 12/16/2007, 03:19 PM
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i did exactly that once in the tank it at all my aptasia, once they were wiped out it seems to start starving
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Old 12/16/2007, 03:56 PM
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try feeding mysis, it seems thats all they will eat that isi prepared.
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Old 12/16/2007, 04:24 PM
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My copper is currently sitting on the bottom of my tank hyper ventilating. Its been fine for a week. I was feeding mysis but as you said seemed to be eating off the rock. Stumped....
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Old 12/16/2007, 04:54 PM
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try feeding them prawn eggs or cyclopeeze thats what ive been feeding mine..
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Old 12/16/2007, 05:16 PM
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Copperband is dead??? $&(#$
 


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