went to my lfs today and saw

[hello kitty]

hi folks how are you all?? im enjoying this bit of hot weather englands having at the mo!

anyways i went to my lfs today and they had some african butterfly fish in. ive never seen anything like them before ever. does anyone on here keep them? i cant seem to find much info on them. what do you all think of them? are they hard to keep?

thanks all

hk

 

[daudy_dojo]

umm my friends mom had one before BUTTTTT her daughter tried to clean the tank out and the fish went byebye down the drain!! poor fish!!! sorry im never much help!!


cool site that has some experiences with them

tell me that those are the ones your talking about??

 

[WILDER]

Can't find a profile on the board so here is one.
http/species.fishindex.com/species_2911p...erfly_fish.html

 

[WILDER]

http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/breedi...terflyfish.html

 

[terrorist_124]

see here

 

[CFC]

Can't find a profile on the board so here is one.

Its just a matter of looking in the right place, there is a profile written by Ryan who keeps a few of these here in our very own index. http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=34968

 

[hello kitty]

thanks folks, trying to work out if i could have one lol

 

[Paul_MTS]

as long as you don't have any small fish or agresive fin nippers then your safe!

 

[hello kitty]

hmm i have black neons, they are the smallest

 

[CFC]

Black neons like any small tetra species will end up as food for an African butterfly fish.

 

[mlee0332]

They are def. going to be snax for this fish. So you should prolly not get one... OR get him a tank for himself

 

[hello kitty]

oh dear have to put butterflyfish on hold for a while !

 

[OohFeeshy]

They'll eat anythin under two inches (or so I've heard ). Cute though, I can imagine a 'spot the ABF amongst the leaf litter' game