Your Copperband nip?
- Thread starter BaaMNYC
- Start date
- Location
- Virginia originally from New York
Mine ripped chunks off of my Trachyphyllia geoffroyi. It liked LPS.
How did you get em to eat mysis?
Tell you the truth I do not know, I feed him separately at first with the aid of garlic turkey baster. But you will need to simultaneously feed the other fish away from him, so they dont still his dinner.
- Location
- Whitestone, Queens, New York
Hey bam my copperband hasn't eaten any of the corals I've put in the tank. But it's only been a week or so since my first corals were added but he appears to pay no mind to any of them. Zoas montipora your bnest frogspawn hammer and few others
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I have ben keeping copperbands since the 70s and never saw them nip at corals but I hear it a lot from people so it must be true. Here is a short video eating some live worms which I feed every day
I have ben keeping copperbands since the 70s and never saw them nip at corals but I hear it a lot from people so it must be true. Here is a short video eating some live worms which I feed every day
Yup Paul I remember and read your two threads. How is that guy doing with the copperband?
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
He said he is doing great but I didn't see a picture. I was thinking of buying another ich infested one, curing him and giving him away. They just die in the store. :bagfish:
- Location
- Whitestone, Queens, New York
I have Paul's copperband lol. I don't know how to post a picture in a thread but he got nice and fat
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
This was him when he was on jenny Craig. I only give away perfect fish. Maybe I will get another one to give away. :bagfish:
- Location
- Queens, NY
Those are black worms? I've tried feeding mine the last time I tried to train them while treating with cupermine. I tried with one copperbanded and 3 long nose butterflies, but they all failed. They'll sample the worms once, but then that was it. They also lost their appetite for mysis (I'm thinking the copper makes them taste bad?) and would only eat frozen brine the 2nd week I have them. Needless to say, on brine, they starved, though I tried to get them back on mysis after the cupermine treatment was over (week 3).
- Location
- Virginia originally from New York
- Location
- Virginia originally from New York
Copperbands are carnivores. Try feeding them pacifica plankton dipped in vitamins. It's high in protein and a natural food they find in the wild.
Mysis and brine are just fat. Not healthy for them even though they get nice and fat.
Sometimes all folks feed are mysis. Down the road these fish die a sudden death and hoobyist can't figure out why. When marine biologist perform a necropsy they find lots of fat infiltrate in the liver and other major organs. This reduces the lifespan of the fish in captivity. Supplementing their diets with meats dipped in vitamins is very important. They should be given foods found in their environment. Their metabolisms are designed to extract nutrients from foods found in the ocean.
Mysis and brine are just fat. Not healthy for them even though they get nice and fat.
Sometimes all folks feed are mysis. Down the road these fish die a sudden death and hoobyist can't figure out why. When marine biologist perform a necropsy they find lots of fat infiltrate in the liver and other major organs. This reduces the lifespan of the fish in captivity. Supplementing their diets with meats dipped in vitamins is very important. They should be given foods found in their environment. Their metabolisms are designed to extract nutrients from foods found in the ocean.
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- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
All my fish get live worms, fresh clams, new born brine shrimp and Mysis every day. That is all they get and some of them are 19 years old. Also out of my 25 or so fish about 18 of them are spawning.
- Location
- Virginia originally from New York
Those newborn brine and their egg sacs and the clams are a really good diet for many carnivores. The egg sac on the brine makes for a highly nutritional food. The worms and mysis are HUFA. When combined with other complete nutritional foods they are very good. It's no wonder thery've lived as long as they have.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I was thinking of eating that stuff myself, but I have problems getting the worms down. :headache:
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