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Need a copperband that's eating prepared foods?

Turkeysammich said:
I went there today too. Kenny said you just left. But yeah. He has lots of copper bands, true perc clowns, regular clowns, a mated pair of Poma angel ( real nice ), sargassum trigger ( real nice) and a rare trigger fish. I forget the name. It’s pink. Pretty cool. Lots of smaller fish too. Very nice selection.
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Those angels looked awesome. The Moorish Idol looked really great too.
 
under_water_ninja said:
The moorish is at its new home! Still have 5 copperbands left that are the most resilient copperbands I have ever seen!! Got these Bali from short chain supplier in Bali through my buddy Chris Meckely
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Man, that's an absolute gold mine!

Fixed it with the buzz words since some think tranship is a 4 letter word
 
derek_SR said:
@under_water_ninja the longnose i picked up last weekend is eating now and seems to be doing pretty well so far.

For everyone constantly struggling with aiptasia, i would highly recommend picking up one of the CBBs from Kenny.
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They cost more, but paying for a fish once that will live up to 10 years is much better than buying (and killing) a bunch. Or buying a bunch of berghia/peppermints that may or may not solve your problem. Plus they're gorgeous fish.
 
Darkxerox said:
They cost more, but paying for a fish once that will live up to 10 years is much better than buying (and killing) a bunch. Or buying a bunch of berghia/peppermints that may or may not solve your problem. Plus they're gorgeous fish.
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Totally, here's mine:
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Picked it up from Kenny about a year ago. Eats frozen and freeze-dried mysis from the auto feeder, keeps the tank aiptasia free, and gets along well with all the other fish. And I didn't kill a ton of them in the process!
 
I recently got a Copperband (had to quarantine and train it myself since this was before Kenny’s shipment). It is now my favorite fish in the tank. It always greats me when I walk up to the tank and likes to follow my hand around when I do maintenance since it is on the lookout for critters that may get out into the water column. I used to have a lot of spaghetti worms in the sand (harmless), within a few days the Copperband decimated the population. Aptasia are a bane—now I don’t have to worry about them anymore (I hope).

I would rank Copperband as the single best utilitarian fish due to the aptasia control. Not may other fish options for that.
 
I have found they don’t eliminate aiptasia completely (not sure anything really will) I found they tend to leave little bits behind that regrow. Not sure if it’s on purpose to maintain food supply, or just part of the aiptasia magic act. Also, there are often little ones p km aces they can’t get to like overflow, plumbing, sump, etc…
These are fish I have up buying long ago due to my poor track record. Even when one “made it” and was eating I rarely had them last over a year. Never more than 2. I would only get one of these from Kenny to be honest
 
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Coral reefer said:
I have found they dot eliminate aiptasia completely (not sure anything really will) I found they tend to leave little bits behind that regrow. Not sure if it’s on purpose to maintain food supply, or just part of the aiptasia magic act.
These are fish I have up buying long ago due to my poor track record. Even when one “made it” and was eating I rarely had them last over a year. Never more than 2. I would only get one of these from Kenny to be honest
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Why do you think the Copperband was able to survive 1-2 years then die? I have also heard before that many can get a Copperband to live for 1 year then they pass away. It seems like people attribute it to eating issues but I am not sure.
 
I think most people probably just underfeed. Not necessarily in quantity but in frequency - they need to eat often, like anthias. I feed a LOT, many many times per day. Mine is a voracious eater and still VERY slow to put on weight, and will quickly drop weight if I get lazy with feeding. Many of these are kind of shy eaters, so I can see how even with heavy, frequent feeding they still might just not get enough - especially sharing a tank with more assertive feeders.

We'll see if mine makes it another year, though. Could be other reasons too!
 
derek_SR said:
I think most people probably just underfeed. Not necessarily in quantity but in frequency - they need to eat often, like anthias. I feed a LOT, many many times per day. Mine is a voracious eater and still VERY slow to put on weight, and will quickly drop weight if I get lazy with feeding. Many of these are kind of shy eaters, so I can see how even with heavy, frequent feeding they still might just not get enough - especially sharing a tank with more assertive feeders.

We'll see if mine makes it another year, though. Could be other reasons too!
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Amount, also quality and type of food probably. Likely also helps for them to have other things to pick at in the tank.
 
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