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Posted: October 15 2006 at 12:16pm |
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Are there any butterfly fish that are reef safe? I really like butterfly fish but I don't want to get one if it is going to nip at everything! I like the copperband, does it nip alot?
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 5:28pm |
my long nose never nipped at anything! She had a great personality (for a fish) 
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 5:39pm |
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How long did she live?
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 5:45pm |
about three months...She ate flake food as well as cyclopeze!
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Posted: October 16 2006 at 6:15pm |
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So, pretty much, you just have to take your chances? I take it they are hard to keep alive?
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Posted: October 16 2006 at 9:45pm |
I believe that they die because we cannot give them, or rather we try to prevent them from eating,  , their foods of choice. In other words, the foods that give them the nutrition they need for survival, coral polyps, are either not provided or are made secondary to the "fast foods" we tend to feed them. There are exceptions of course, and these are sure to be posted next. 
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Posted: October 16 2006 at 10:18pm |
I wouldn't get one again for the reasons mark just said! I'd feel bad killing another one!
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Posted: October 17 2006 at 1:10pm |
I know of many that have been successful with keeping butterfly fish. Every successful fish had the same thing in comon. Each one would eat some type of fishfood i.e flake, mysis etc...
I had a raccoon butterfly for a long time that did not eat fish food but it wrecked havoc in my tank. It ate aiptasia, zoanthids, hairy mushrooms, xenia, star polyps, clam mantles, and more. I finally caught it, put it in the sump to reduce the aiptasia there, then found it a home in a FOLR tank with plenty of aiptasia.
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Posted: October 17 2006 at 4:58pm |
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Okay, then, that's answers my questions. I won't attempt to keep them, because if you guys aren't too successful with them, then I probably won't be. It seems like most of the fish I end up liking the most, aren't reef safe!
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