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Paradi
05/31/2007, 06:21 PM
I purchased a Copperband Butterfly to my new nano, she is a beauty, but as soon as i placed her in tank, she started nipping on my worm rocks and trying to catch small feather dusters, is this ok? i love my feathers and want to keep them, what do u think? will she really eat them? they hide quickly but iam still worried about them, what do you guys think?

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m200/mightysherrio/DSC01739.jpg
bassettmd
05/31/2007, 06:29 PM
That is one of their choice items to eat in the wild.... if you want to keep your feather dusters then the copperband is going to have to go. My butterfly has eaten all of my dusters (thank god i did not buy them, naturally occuring) out of my 65 gallon. BTW how big is your nano?
Paradi
05/31/2007, 06:31 PM
20g :)
Paradi
05/31/2007, 06:33 PM
what do u think of his/her pic? :)
Paradi
05/31/2007, 06:35 PM
do you think the dusters has no chance at all ? they seem to hide as soon as she gets close , i donno i like her she is my first fish in that tank and she looks photogenic lol, although my digicam is crap :)
Paradi
05/31/2007, 06:50 PM
bump
poppin_fresh
05/31/2007, 06:54 PM
The feathers are toast. Unfortunately I think the Copperband is too.

They are tough fish to keep simply because they can be very difficult to get to eat prepared food. They are also very active fish that need room to swim, a lot more than 20 gals worth.

Note: these are my opinions only. Yes, I have had a Copperband and yes, I was unsucessfull in keeping it alive. They are difficult, but its your tank, do what you want.
Paradi
05/31/2007, 06:57 PM
hmm ok ill take her back to LFS tomorow, will she still eat during lights off?
poppin_fresh
05/31/2007, 07:07 PM
They do their prowling at dusk and dawn. Even if it gets a couple, the dusters should recover in a couple weeks.
coast2coast7390
05/31/2007, 07:30 PM
i agree the featherdusters are goners you could try feeding live brine
Paradi
05/31/2007, 07:41 PM
ill take her back and get a pair of Ocellaris, they have some very cute ones at the LFS, thank you all for your help , I owe you :)
snappedbigfoot
05/31/2007, 10:40 PM
there gone, they're great apestia controller. also he needs a bigger tank .