Craigy & witfull,
They're beautiful. How about personality, are they hyper, or do they chase other fish? Do they eat snails or hermits? Are they top swimmers or do they stay in the rocks? Stuff like that?
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260 Gallon acrylic tank w/ corner overflows, Custom 50G Sump, two Skimmers; an AquaC EV-120 and a Red Sea Classic Berlin. Two Mag 18s, Custom Sea Life 1/3 HP Chiller with LCD controller. Three 250W 10,000K MH Iwasakis & 2x 72" Hamilton 165W Ultra Actinics, six 4" fans. Around 450 lbs LR, bare-bottom.
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Clown, Anthias, Possum & 6-Line wrasse, Sailfin, Blonde & Kole tangs, foxface -- sps, lps, zo's, shrooms
I bought this beautiful fish to rid my tank of aiptasia and I am happy to say I no longer have aiptasia.
The main concern with this fish is feeding. Seems alot of people have trouble getting this fish to eat a variety of foods. I have had no problem with feeding it frozen mysis shrimp and my home made "mush".
It picks once in awhile at a coral(mainly LPS) but no real damage.
One drawback is it will find and consume all those little white feather dusters you have in your tank. To me it is a small price to pay for having just a beautiful fish. Here is a pic of mine!
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IT WAS ONLY A MOMENT. IT MOVED AMONG THE REEF AND THEN IT WAS GONE. WHAT COULD IT HAVE BEEN? NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN!
TG they are model reef fish, love to swim in and around the rockwork, and will spend time hunting pods and wanting you to feeed mysisone drawback is they can be a bit shy at first and may carpetsurf if frightened.
No bad reef habits. Wrong genus, remember Thallasoma, for shrimp munching. Active swimmers and like to patrol the open water column. So much color and swim action, will make your heart go pitter patter. If tank is deep enouugh with lots of places to hide, like your tank, a greatly reduced chance for carpet surfing!
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Originally posted by tankgirl Greg, you forgot to rate Henis!!
Uh oh! Well you know my opinion of Henis, although I don't know exactly how safe they are. Mine never bothered the stuff in my tank! Gotta give 'em a 9!
Hey, Montana, I felt the same way about my Copperband - an awesome fish, except for munching on feather dusters. I never had any trouble feeding but have always fed live food, so that's probably why. (p.s. what's the fish behind your copperband in the photo?)
Wit & Craigy, Thanks, I revise my rating to 10 on Paracheilinus and Cirrhilabrus!!
Flip, we gotta have Henis in this thread! Any downside to them?
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260 Gallon acrylic tank w/ corner overflows, Custom 50G Sump, two Skimmers; an AquaC EV-120 and a Red Sea Classic Berlin. Two Mag 18s, Custom Sea Life 1/3 HP Chiller with LCD controller. Three 250W 10,000K MH Iwasakis & 2x 72" Hamilton 165W Ultra Actinics, six 4" fans. Around 450 lbs LR, bare-bottom.
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Clown, Anthias, Possum & 6-Line wrasse, Sailfin, Blonde & Kole tangs, foxface -- sps, lps, zo's, shrooms
Hey tank girl it is one of those dreaded damsels! It is a yellow tail blue damsel and I have four of them and they all have their own little territory and get along just fine!
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IT WAS ONLY A MOMENT. IT MOVED AMONG THE REEF AND THEN IT WAS GONE. WHAT COULD IT HAVE BEEN? NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN!
Montana, What other fish do you have in your tank? One of the things I loved about my Copperband was that he never bothered another fish, but if a fish tried to chase him, he's turn around and chase it right back.
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260 Gallon acrylic tank w/ corner overflows, Custom 50G Sump, two Skimmers; an AquaC EV-120 and a Red Sea Classic Berlin. Two Mag 18s, Custom Sea Life 1/3 HP Chiller with LCD controller. Three 250W 10,000K MH Iwasakis & 2x 72" Hamilton 165W Ultra Actinics, six 4" fans. Around 450 lbs LR, bare-bottom.
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Clown, Anthias, Possum & 6-Line wrasse, Sailfin, Blonde & Kole tangs, foxface -- sps, lps, zo's, shrooms
Tankgirl I have 4 yellowtail blue damsels, one yellow damsel and one tomato clown and they get along quite well with maybe a little chasing if territories are crossed by no injuries or that sort of thing! They act like the copperband is not even in the tank and vice versa! Johnny
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IT WAS ONLY A MOMENT. IT MOVED AMONG THE REEF AND THEN IT WAS GONE. WHAT COULD IT HAVE BEEN? NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN!
Well, that explains it; you don't have any timid fish in there. That's why you like your damsels. JK!
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260 Gallon acrylic tank w/ corner overflows, Custom 50G Sump, two Skimmers; an AquaC EV-120 and a Red Sea Classic Berlin. Two Mag 18s, Custom Sea Life 1/3 HP Chiller with LCD controller. Three 250W 10,000K MH Iwasakis & 2x 72" Hamilton 165W Ultra Actinics, six 4" fans. Around 450 lbs LR, bare-bottom.
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Clown, Anthias, Possum & 6-Line wrasse, Sailfin, Blonde & Kole tangs, foxface -- sps, lps, zo's, shrooms
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