Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

djmx2002

djmx2002

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Hey guys,
My girlfriend just bought me Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish for my birthday...
the only problem is that i have a reef tank,
Zoas shrooms, some LPS No SPS tho
would be be safe keeping it in my tank?
it's 135g by the way
 
yimmy

yimmy

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It depends its an iffy fish. I have one and I had it with corals and it was fine, it then died. Later on I got rid of the corals and now I have another. It depends what Kinds of corals, for exmple the reason it has a long nose is to poke its nose into tight places. Like perhaps a coral. Its a 50 50 chance.
 
xdave

xdave

Active Member
The older the tank is the less likely they are to pick at corals. They eat tiny things in the crevices of rock, if there aren't any the turn to other things.
 
djmx2002

djmx2002

Member
I have a sad update about that butterfly.
it got pretty got with the other guys in the tank, he was bothering the tiny feather dusters a little bit. but he did pretty good .
today at 10am my girl friend calls me and she tells me that he got stuck in the power head!!!

i didnt' have powerhead accident for almost a year now, i had all the intakes covered beside one that was behind the rock. and that's the place he decided to stick his long nose into.....
as you can imagine the picture wasn't too pretty, and from what i undrestood from her all the other animals in the tank took advantage of the oppurtunity and had a 30 dollar lunch... or breakfast which ever it is for them.
so she was very sad since she got really attached too that fish, so i placed an order for a new fish from this site today...
by the way this site rewards program is awesome. it's one of the primary reasons that i order from this site. i had a free xenia colony today :)
anyway now i know that also fish can get stuck in powerheads, not only anenomes.
 
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