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!

 

I am borrowing this link from Amcarrig.
Marine Compatability Chart
Hope this helps.

Jim

 

Thanks, but it doesn't talk too much about the different types of corals, just fish. Any other ideas?

 

Short answer for that butterfly "No". Only butterfly I have ever kept with corals is the Australian copper band. Noe just any pacific ne either just the ones from the waters around Australia . I once questioned this myself and just put a copper band in a reef LOL he went to work as if he was pre-programmed Like was his job to eat my corals LOL he had to go..