butterflies
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dogstar
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No, not really, though most stay somewhat small. IMO, The problem with alot of BFs is that they need alot of room, not for themselfs, but for liverock and sand and along with a refuguim to produce the natural live foods that they need. Many may eat introduced foods but slowly overtime they waist away without a large healthy system.
yimmy
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I have a Longnose. The fish is small but they need room to roam. I'm lucky though because mine eats mysis, and other prepared meals. I have a 95gal FOWLR and hes the only one in the tank that eats pods. If you have your heart set I would get a BIG refugium for them to grow so you can put them in your DT. There hard to keep and would be even harder in a small tank.
jon321
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Originally Posted by Dogstar
The problem with alot of BFs is that they need alot of room, not for themselfs, but for liverock and sand and along with a refuguim to produce the natural live foods that they need. Many may eat introduced foods but slowly overtime they waist away without a large healthy system.
Where did you read that? Cant say I have ever heard of butterflies requiring natural live foods, and I have personally kept butterflies with success without. You should have no problems with some of the smaller, hardier butterflies in a 45g tank as long as its mature, atleast 6 months old. Some suitable butterflies would be: punctato, lemon, auriga, and heniochus bannerfish. All of these do fine on standard frozen foods like enriched brine, mysis, formula 1 and 2, etc.
Jon
The problem with alot of BFs is that they need alot of room, not for themselfs, but for liverock and sand and along with a refuguim to produce the natural live foods that they need. Many may eat introduced foods but slowly overtime they waist away without a large healthy system.
Where did you read that? Cant say I have ever heard of butterflies requiring natural live foods, and I have personally kept butterflies with success without. You should have no problems with some of the smaller, hardier butterflies in a 45g tank as long as its mature, atleast 6 months old. Some suitable butterflies would be: punctato, lemon, auriga, and heniochus bannerfish. All of these do fine on standard frozen foods like enriched brine, mysis, formula 1 and 2, etc.
Jon