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Copperband Butterflyfish
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Copperband Butterflies have yellow-orange vertical bands with blue-black edging on the white body. They also have a blue-edged black "eye-spot" and a thin, vertical black band at the base of the caudal fin....
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| Scientific Name |
Chelmon rostratus
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| Common Names |
Beaked Butterflyfish, Beaked Coralfish, Orange Stripe Butterfly
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Worth the Money
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This is a rather difficult fish to eat. Several reasons, they are prone to not eating or barly eating. They tend to pick at the reef and can be difficult to get to it mysis or brin shrimp. If you can accomplish that, they can get Ich.
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| Liked about it |
This animal is beautiful to watch and have in your reef aquarium
Reef safe
very active and tends to stay out for viewing.
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| Didn't like |
Eating and adapting difficulties.
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2.5 |
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3.0 |
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2.0 |
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A Doomed Beauty
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I, in good conscience, could not recommend this fish to anyone but the most experienced hobbyist with a very large tank. While it is possible to get fish that will accept frozen foods, getting them to take prepared foods is much harder. Frozen foods seem to be insufficient to sustain these fish, and sadly the majority of them in captivity are doomed to a very short life. |
| Liked about it |
This is an absolutely beautiful fish. Great for cleaning up Aiptasia. Gets along well with tankmates.
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| Didn't like |
Along with cleaning up unwanted inverts, it also cleaned out all my feather dusters. Difficult to feed.
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3.0 |
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5.0 |
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1.0 |
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Extremely finicky and challenging fish to keep
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These fish are notorious for not eaisly taking to captive diets and overall being very difficult to keep. I would not recommend this fish to beginners and am hesitent to recommend keeping this fish at all. I have had some limited success with a specimen that was already eating frozen spirulina enriched brine shrimp (demonstrated in front of me) at the LFS. Even with this, he only survived for 9 months before disappearing one day. |
| Liked about it |
Ate all my aptasia and kept my tank aptasia free for 9 months. Aswesome coloration and personality.
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| Didn't like |
Extremely difficult to keep.
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4.0 |
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4.0 |
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4.0 |
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challenging fish
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These fish are notorious for not taking to a captive diet, and I would not recommend them as a result. I wouldnt be surprised if more the 3/4 of those brought into the hobby die within a few months. |
| Liked about it |
beautiful fish, reef safe
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| Didn't like |
very challenging to acclimate to captivity
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2.0 |
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3.0 |
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1.0 |
 By crvz
May 05, 2009
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Gorgous fish
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A beautiful fish but hard to keep. I would not recommend this fish for beginner hobbyists. |
| Liked about it |
I absolutely love this fish! it has beautiful gold and silver stripes with a false eye that defintely going to stand out in your tank. A very shy and gentle looking fish IMO. Copperbanded butterfly is not totally reef safe but rather a hit and miss, some will nip on corals, some won't, mine never do so i consider myself lucky.
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| Didn't like |
Hard to keep species, i have failed couple times keeping one successfully. Making sure to acclimate this fish before you put it in, it's very important not only to this particular fish but any other as well. If possible, try to get it from your LFS and not online, thus you can see whether or not it's healthy and eats well. If it doesnt eat, dont buy it yet because it's most likely going to starve itself to death.
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4.5 |
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5.0 |
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4.0 |
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