long nosed butterfly fish

[gusmanda]

Anyone have experience with a long-nosed butterfly fish? My LFS claims they are just as good as copperband butterflies as far as aipstasia is concerned. My worry is it a) might not eat aipstasia the way CB butterflies do, and b) it might eat some of the corals.

[gusmanda]

by the way, I was refering to Forcipiger flavissimus

[bassettmd]

In my past experience they are perfectly fine to have in a reef tank... some do and some dont enjoy aptasia (much like copperbands). The only reason that I no longer own one today is because he also enjoyed one of my small maxima clams a little too much.

[bassettmd]

oops.... btw they are a model citizen and I reccommend them over copperbands because they are much hardier. They also do not put up with harrassment from other fish and can stand their ground.

[nikon187]

look into pyramid butterfly.


or do what i did, move corals to sump and place a 150 halide down there. Then buy a raccoon butterfly and let him go to town. ha

[gusmanda]

how about putting a copperband and a long nose together, think they'd get along?

[JIM260]

Thats a great question. I have thought of this combo in my 300 lps, softy reef.