Copperband Butterflyfish 

Most have no idea of the work you've put onto that tank! It's awesome! Kudos!

Hi I have a CBB for a little over a year hasn't bothered coral except Aptasia totally ate them all. I have a tank full of Tangs so I have recently introduced a floating ring feeder he now has his own dinner plate lol and doesn't have to fight for food. Highly recommend this type of feeder it prevents the over feeding just to get the CBB to eat. Mine loves frozen and dried Mysis Shrimp and minced clams from the grocery store. Just love him such a character and very friendly

Hey Dev, I would LOVE to see a video that's just of your aquarium, for like an hour. I'm seriously impressed by your depth of knowledge dude.

I've had mine for about a month now. It took almost a week to get him eating and comfortable in the tank. One thing I found helpful because like you mentioned they aren't super aggressive eaters is using a feed mode on my power heads inside the tank. I have MP60's with moderate flow and I normally haven't used feed mode during feeding as I haven't found it useful up to this point. However the cbb doesn't seem to be a super strong swimmer and once I reduced the flow in the tank he really seemed to immediately respond to this and went after food far better than when the flow was stronger. Just some things I observed while acclimating this amazing fish to my tank. His curiosity is really fun to observe like you said.

Masstick - I started to put it on the glass and the tangs would go mad for it so I made sure to put some right near the copperband. Once he tasted it he knew he liked it. I had tried other methods and none worked. At first the tangs would eat it too quick so I made a little eating device with a pipette and a glass sucker thingy. After a while of him eating just this twice a day I noticed he started to compete with the tangs and other fish for mysis so now they all get both to share. Try it. It did wonders for my guy. Oh and he and my yellow will happily eat it out of my hands.

Nice,down to earth, approach to a species spot light. Doc BC

Great video Devon and #1 thing you said was try not to order online. They are often caught with cyanide and this makes people think they can't keep them because they die days after getting them. They will do circles when poisoned. One of my favorite fish.

Perfect…

Beautiful tank!!!

To deal w overly aggressive food driven fish you can feed pellets first too.

He’s a good looking fish and in your case the reward outweighs the risk as he is eating PE mysis already. 👌

Frozen bloodworms was the ticket for me to get mine eating. They are his favorite food and he even eats right out of my hands if I let him.

Did he eventually eat the aptasia ? How’s the micromusa lords doing ?

I really love your fish selection. Would love just the same ones…❤️

Great video. I’ve had my Cb for a year and a half now. Once they start eating it seems they are good to go. My cb eats mysis, blood worms, lrs scallops. Pretty much everything but prepared foods. He gives the tangs a run for there money at feeding time. My only problem is he likes to try and bully my snow flake eel sometimes. Tail slaps and shoving on occasion, I think he learned the tail slapping from the tangs😂.

Dev Great Videos as usual.. I was little curious about your last reefbot update & that blue throat Trigger fish as well.. Cheers.

Love the video. Hope he remains a model citizen :)

I picked one up a couple days ago and I'm really stressing about the idea of losing it. He was eating brine at lfs so I'm hoping it goes well.. if I lose 1 due to starvation there's no way I'll try again. Compared to this a mandarin is a cake walk. I've been trying different foods, fish frenzy, masticks with mixed in clam, butterfly formula frozen food etc.. I'll be trying straight up brine and mysis tomorrow. I'm surprised how comfortable he is coming up around me when I'm watching him. Thought he'd be hiding but he's constantly swimming around looking at the bottom of qt. I've never had good luck with masticks tho, to me it looked like he was picking out the clam from the mixture. Also looked like he was striking the fish frenzy pretty good, I'm literally losing sleep over the idea of him starving tho:(

Hi Just add copperband butterfly, my purple tang goes after copperband ((( i put my purple tang in sump How long should i keep purple tang in the sump ???

Do you have any aggression from TANGS?

Love the video dev. Have a good day sir

Nice video

Love that fish.

I have a super healthy looking/acting CBB, but he wasn't eating at the LFS - the ones that were had some lymphocysts. I underestimated how difficult it would be since I have lots of upside down jellyfish polyps and masstick - which I had heard was a 'secret sauce' for these guys. Anyway, I put some clams in and he keeps investigating very curiously - but he just watches like some kind of porn addict while the hermits swarm the clams. (I found some small cockels and did your method of freezing them and letting them thaw in the tank)

Some day...

I’ve had mine for 9 months and he must be doing alright as he’s quite a bit bigger now which is great but he definitely prefers frozen my sis over Aptasia unfortunately 😏

Love the video! I have one and he/she is my favorite. Speaking of butterfly, I saw a video from you a while back about pyramid butterfly you picked up, but I don't see it in main DT. What happened to it? I am thinking of picking up a pyramid butterfly. Any pros and cons that you noticed with yours? Thanks.

I agree with your advice but I will share my opinion in keeping CBs. I will say that its way easier to get them to eat frozen foods in QT because there are no distractions in DT he will naturally graze for pods on the rock. Now the real problem with CBs is they eat coral, if they are healthy and eat all types of frozen and aiptasia they will eventually eat zoas and baby rhodactis they are basically the same for the fish, if they eat clam from the shop they will eat your maxima clam. Mine ate (not picked) blastomussa and lobophyllia, some zoas and ricordea babies and will destroy it in a few days they cab eat alot of food. If you say "My Copperband never touched coral" I will say its only eating one or 2 foods and hasnt been condition to eating its full diet yet and also they are extremely intelligent fish and you are not looking at your reef 99% of the time They are like a regal angel really worth to build a tank around them but they absolutely will eat LPS and some small zoa pups and shrooms, if you have a peaceful 3 year old tank with big colonies without these LPS we keep hearing they eat youll have a better chance, but IME it became a constant liability over a wide variety or corals therefore I rehomed it, nowadays reefers are better at keeping CBs alive but this is also revealing they might not be as coral safe as we thought

Chelmon is tridacna safe?

The sole reason i want a bigger tank would be to get this fish.

It’s so sad that these copper and videos are way more popular than any other butterflyfish, I miss the fowlr days when you could watch people have full butterfly tanks and give detail info, like this but minus the reef tank

Will it eat a deresa clam? I have one the size of a football.

What about zoanthids

Hows the butterfly fish doing?

Sooner or later, say good bye to all your lps. Don’t do it.

This fish will be 100% dead by now