Copperband Butterfly Not Eating!

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  1. rupertb1

    rupertb1 Plankton

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    Hello,

    I bought a Copperband Butterfly two days ago and it has not eaten since. It doesnt seem like there is food in the live rock for it to eat, and it refuses the Brine and Mysist shrimp I offer it.

    Please offer any suggestions on how to get my fish to eat.
     
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  3. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    Gut loaded live brine is usually the easiest way to get then eating. Once you get it eating that, you can mix some frozen in with it to get it on frozen. Another trick once it's on live brine. Is first feed frozen. Wait about ten minutes and fed frozen again. After about another ten minutes feed live. Do this at every feeding until it's jumping on the frozen food. Good luck.

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  4. JJK

    JJK Teardrop Maxima Clam

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    If you can find them locally, try live black worms. If you can't get those, try live brine, as suggested above. If you can't get that, try frozen blood worms once the lights have been dimmed.