butteryfly and mandarin ok together?

[dannieboiz]

I have a mandarin in my tank and recently put a butterly in there to get rid of the aptasia. I'm currently not feeding the tank anything other than nori for my tangs to get the butterly to start eating aptasia. Will the Copper band butterfly dry out the pods in the tank?

[bertoni]

I would expect them to compete for food, but I don't know how much of an issue that'd be. I assume this is the 100g tank? Is there a refugium?

[dannieboiz]

yah 100g display 40g sump with plenty of cheato and LR there as well

[bertoni]

Hmm, tough call for me. If you feed phytoplankton to the tank, that'll help the food supply, IMO.

[dannieboiz]

will try that.

[Litespeeds]

Those fish are ok together but it is not guaranteed that the butterfly will eat the aptasias.