copperband butterfly

my question is do you think i could keep one in my 75 gal reef. I have more than a few pices of aiptasia that i cant seem to kill with joes juce or aiptasia x. I have about 130 lbs of LR. I also have a small foxface, a bicolor blenny, a six line wrasse, scopas tang, a percula clown with a long tentacle anemone, yellow watchman and a pistol shrimp, a yellowtail damsel, a cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp and a coral banded shrimp. maby im at my limits ....just wanted to see what every one else had to say.

 

Well i've heard that copperband butterflys are not reefsafe.

 

You are pretty damn close to your limits....Scopas tang will give the CBB a hard time. But if you find a big enough CBB it should be fine cause it can defend itself with its spiky fins... But you need to make the call if theres gonna be enough room to be comfortable.

They will eat your aiptasia. They are very very good at that.

they are reef safe for the most part. will eat your feather dusters. but keep an eye on him. may poke at things

 

Typically tangs, even zebrasomas won't bother a CB Butterfly. My big Sailfin that knows he is king of the tank never even looked twice at my CB Bfly addition.

They are reef safe, if you don't care about them eating the feather dusters.

I do think you are at your limits fish wise though in that 75g.

 

im sure you know this but they are a harder fish to keep so make sure you factor that in to your decision!

 

Yes, they ship poorly, and then are typically tough to get to eat in captivity, then even after that they can be tricky fish.

Add those factors in, and they are not an easy to keep specimen.