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meyer's butterfly / scrawled butterfly fish


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impossible to keep.

it's an obligate SPS eater. that means it eats nothing but SPS.

unless you can provide it SPS forever, you can't keep this.

substitute fish foods will not work and it won't eat them.

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it WILL die.

please do more research in future and stop buying fishes like these.

they don't survive at all because of their strict diet.

I jux saw one meyeri butterfly at CF on Saturday. V beautiful!

But when we are there on Sunday, the butterfly is gone! Which means someone has bought it and not knowing it is difficult to keep.

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the thing is, even if it eats brine shrimp, it will die.

even if it eats pellets, it will also die.

the problem with obligate coral feeders is they have evolved over the years to eat nothing else but corals. sure one or two will eat pellets or brine shrimp or mysis and survive, but the odds are too slim to count.

tkae this as a lesson learnt. many butterflies are obligate coral eaters so pls do research before buying.

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Its not going to be affordable. Maybe u can set up a huge tank full of sps corals that will supply you a consistent supply of frags for your butterfly to eat but that is unlikely to work since acros dont grow that fast either that or u need ALOt of sps colonys....how is your butterfly now

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Its not going to be affordable. Maybe u can set up a huge tank full of sps corals that will supply you a consistent supply of frags for your butterfly to eat but that is unlikely to work since acros dont grow that fast either that or u need ALOt of sps colonys....how is your butterfly now

sadly, the butterfly has died.

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