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imagine7070 · 11-22-2006, 01:00 PM

Hi everyone, I just picked up my first butterfly fish and he seems to be doing well so far. I have only a sand button polyp in my tank as the only coral and the butterfly fish has been nipping at it so much that it looks like the coral has no hope.

I know the butterfly fish is not very "reef safe", but my question is.... Do you know of any corals that I can keep that the blackback butterfly won't harm? This was the last fish that I was going to put in the tank and then I wanted to start putting coral in, but if the butterfly will kill everything I put it, that's just sad.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

11-22-2006, 01:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
imagine7070 Flamingo Tongue Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 109 Karma: 3	Blackback Butterfly and Corals? Hi everyone, I just picked up my first butterfly fish and he seems to be doing well so far. I have only a sand button polyp in my tank as the only coral and the butterfly fish has been nipping at it so much that it looks like the coral has no hope. I know the butterfly fish is not very "reef safe", but my question is.... Do you know of any corals that I can keep that the blackback butterfly won't harm? This was the last fish that I was going to put in the tank and then I wanted to start putting coral in, but if the butterfly will kill everything I put it, that's just sad. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! _________ Started 03/2006 46 Gallon, Aqua C Remora w/ Maxi-Jet 1200, 2 Hydor Koralia #1, Penguin Bio-Wheel 200 Filter (w/ no Bio-Wheel), 65 lbs live rock, 60 lbs live sand, Coralife 36" Lunar Aqualight 2x96w with LEDs. LIVESTOCK Fish: 2 false perculas, 1 Coral Beauty, 1 diamond goby Inverts: 10 hermit crabs, 2 nassarius snails, 7 turbo snails, 1 electric blue crab, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp. Corals: Colt Coral