I 💓 your Copperband! I love mine too! Curious and sometimes playful. Never have to worry about aphasia.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Copperbands are awesome indeed Larie

Thats awesome! Thank you for sharing your experience and your results show how healthy your fish is. I have to decide now between the Yellow Tang or the Copperband Butterfly. But man I'm leaning towards the Copperband now. Thank you for all the info. Very informative!

Ty for the reply. Yes. Coming along nicely and always enjoyed the CBB long time reef hobbyist here as well. I can understand the move and new set up. Ty for videos and advice.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching and replying. The move was regrettable but sometimes when life gives you lemons, you gotta make lemonade :P

Beautiful tank😁👍🙋‍♀️

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Beata :D

@ARTOFDUNKS

3 жыл бұрын

lol i like ur ram pic ! i want to add some to my tank

@zafishguy5166

3 жыл бұрын

@@ARTOFDUNKS look into black rams find ones that have strong genes maybe email dean (aquarium coop could help you contact him). Or search locally.

Beautiful copperband😍 I'm looking forward to the new series update!

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! :-D

very nice video, beautiful fish!!

Love the scape. So elegant and clean

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Alice!!

Nice video series, I got to see the monsters eating- that was awesome...

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Ha yes I thought about you there for a minute :)

You have some amazing fish 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

New series... epic!

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

YESSS :D

It is a lovely fish and I bet your glad the drum seems to be doing well. 🍻

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark! Yeah indeed very glad! The Drum is still one of my favorite fish :)

Awesome tank mate

I’m here because my yellow tang is using my Copper band as a punching bag. They seem to be getting along much better now but the mental damage may already be done

@DutchReefer

Жыл бұрын

Oof that's sad to hear, do they get along now or are they still fighting?

VERY HELPFUL DIALOG ! Your tank is outstanding.... Luv the "stonework" in front of the overflow + the aquascaping in general. Is the drum difficult to keep? Thank you 1 more time. Kenny from Antigua & Barbuda.

Very nice

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve!

Just bought one of these 😀

Amazona Fish! Could u explain how do you prepare this ball fishfood that u stick on the glass!? Id love to hear about it.

Ziet er schitterend uit en hij blinkt zo prachtig!

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Ja tof hé, zo mooi die glimmende zilveren kleur :-)

I always look forward to your informative videos, and I’m glad to see you have started a new series. Because Copperbands are so be peaceful, are you worried about the possibility that he may fall victim to bullying by the tangs? Or is it the case, that if the Copperband is established first before any tangs are introduced, then the Copperband will be accepted as the dominant fish by the others? By the way, your Copperband is the finest I have ever seen, well done!

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Aftab, thanks for your reply! Normally tangs (apart from the regular yellow one) won't bother the CBB since it's vastly different in size and appearance. Tangs usually only show potential aggressive behavior to tang-like fish (or other tangs of course). It is always recommendable to add the most aggressive tangs last to the tank, but I know that's hard since sometimes you want to have a change and you can't get around it. If in the end you do see aggressive behavior by tangs you could always (temporarily) place some small mirrors in the tank, the Tang will focus on that before other fish.

The fish look vibrant & healthy especially your copperband. A varied diet seems to really help the fishes health..

@zafishguy5166

3 жыл бұрын

I have a theory that masstick does it for everyone partly.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah agreed, although the main "course" is still mysis/krill/brineshrimp, I also feed Masstick weekly and some Caulerpa Taxifolia every few days.

Hey Anton, leuk om te zien dat je deze bak toch hebt gehouden en dat het nu duidelijk veel beter gaat 👍. Ik vraag me af hoe jij je giesemann aurora verlichting hebt ingesteld? Thx

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Dank voor je reactie! Ja ik ben er zelf ook blij mee, zeker nu het weer wat beter gaat. Komende week even een test naar ATI sturen om te kijken hoe het er echt mee staat. En ik heb 'm op 100% T5 beide kanalen, 90% royal blue, 80% marine blue en 30% witte LED

Lovely Tank, always enjoy your uploads keep em coming..btw where is Regal Angel?

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nate, will do! Oh and the Regal unfortunately had to go, since it was eating away my leather corals (amongst others). It's now in a large SPS dominated tank with another Dutch Reefer :-)

@NateAntoine

3 жыл бұрын

@@DutchReefer wow he got a taste for your soft corals huh..not too surprising... maybe you can feature that sps tank sometime on your channel...would be awesome.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

@@NateAntoine Yeah he did, and it got worse over time too... The SPS tank is somewhere else in the Netherlands, so that's quite hard but perhaps one day :)

Hi. Did u move or take down your older reef system? That tank looked amazing.

@SpaghettiKillah

3 жыл бұрын

He upgraded to this bigger one. I agree...that tank looked better than this one but this one is new so as it matures it will look better and better. Already it has improved a lot over the last few months.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I took it down last year when we moved houses. It was a tough decision which I still regret. This new tank is taking a lot of time to mature, but hey that's the hobby right :-) and thanks for poining it out @SpaghettiKillah!

love the update! is it me or the water looks a little cloudy ?

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah that's correct, a combination of the sand sifting gobies being too active and too much dust in the tank..

oh Sub'ed and love it, i just posted a video of my nem feeding on lobster lol.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Haha nice one, and you enjoyed some yourself as well I see :) I fed my nem a piece of Lancefish earlier this week and it seemed to like it!

Very informative message, may I know why your tank looks so cloudy.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

i added a copper band fish to my two hawain doctors fish with no problem at all. they live happily together since two years. so it might just depend on the individual...

How does the regal angel and copperband matchup literally my 2 favourite fish, and the main reason for getting into reeftanks.

@DutchReefer

11 ай бұрын

In this tank they didn't have any issues with each other. In my new tank I got a baby pygo and the copperband was aggressive for a couple of days. After that, they went along just fine!

What do you do about feeding fish when leaving on holidays? I had a copperband for about 5 years, then one year while I was away on holiday, my tank sitter neglected to feed my cbb and it just never recovered from that and died within a few weeks when I got back...

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Ah nice question! My mom usually takes care of our cats and my fish when we're away. But we're mostly at home because we live at a horsefarm and the horsies need attention every day hah! Sad to hear about your CBB dying after 5 years :(....

Yea my yellow tang hated it wouldn’t let up

Masstick now comes in ready mixed pellet form. Some people may prefer that to mixing their own.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I heard, I'll look for it in my LFS!

@zafishguy5166

3 жыл бұрын

I like the pellet form

@adamprice8382

9 ай бұрын

My copperband took one nibble and spit it out. He's been bulking up on just mysis and brine.

I got lieutenant tang which I add the same day as butterfly cooperbad

😎👍🏾💯🔥

How long did it take for your cbb to outgrow the 350 liter tank?

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say about 2-3 years, but still a CBB in 350L is possible if there's not too many other fish. I've kept mine in a 525 which was fine 'till the end

hi i watch your video recently . what is the food that you stick to glass? (is that diy? is there a recepie)

@DutchReefer

Жыл бұрын

Hi! That's Masstick, a food by Easyreefs!

@eralpdemirkazik9142

Жыл бұрын

@@DutchReefer thank you very much

I tried: live amphipods, live baby brine shrimps, frozen cyclops, frozen mysis, chopped salmon & scallop on a piece of pipe, covered with some net. And small pellets. Tried to add brightwell garlic to each type of food; fish V... also no luck. Already 10 days. Because of this new normal, I can only order fish thru online. Any tips?

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Oof that seems like you tried most of the stuff there is... If you have a cylindric box like for example a box which in the old days used to have rolls of film then you could try to make some holes into that and put the food in there. your other fish can't reach inside but your CBB might peek into it with his nose. Have you seen him poking at your rockwork at all looking for food?

@mrsupersym

3 жыл бұрын

@@DutchReefer this CBB is still in QT, no rock, just big elbows for hiding. He never hides, is that a good thing or bad? I'll try the poking station. I might try NLS dough mix, and how about nori? Ty 🙏🏼

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrsupersym I don't think they hide much in elbows, so you might consider adding a piece of Live Rock just in case. Let me know if the poking station works! And a nope on Nori as far as I've seen!

I had my copperband for 6 weeks and he was happy and swam and picked at the rocks till he started breathing heavily and died the next day. He wasn't skinny either

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm 6 weeks is quite short, that is quite odd. I've heard of people who had the same issue where it turned out the fish was poisoned during catching them in the ocean, which will only kill them months later..

@BraddaMarlon

3 жыл бұрын

@@DutchReefer yeah he was fine and happy then boom

What are the pink and orange schooling fish?

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Brent, those are Evansi Anthias :) I've had them for about 4 years now

How u mi the food stick to the glass

hoi dutch reefer ik ben bezig met het opzetten van een reefer250 en wil zeker het copperband erin hebben vraag is wat is dat musket en waar kan ik die kopen? alvast thnx Mario

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mario het heet Masstick en je kunt het vrijwel bij elke zeewater winkel kopen! :)

@mariovrijsen1158

3 жыл бұрын

@@DutchReefer thnx voor je antwoord zal in Breda bij coralland en fish het hebben anders bij heevis eindhoven...had nog niet van gehoord...

I don't think the care of a copperband butterflyfish should be the first video in a series just my opinion way to many issues with these guys they are at least a 201 video. Lol. Perfect timed video as my uncle is considering one.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Haha well if you look at it like that, you're right. But I assume not just starters are watching the videos :P and I try to explain as simple as possible for newcomers!

What’s the food name again? Thanks!

@DutchReefer

Жыл бұрын

That's Masstick!

Look out 2 videos this week

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Ha yes, a review and now a new weekly series. I will continue to do reviews seperately from the weekly updates, so more videos are coming :)

@ethanspruiell2722

3 жыл бұрын

Dutch Reefer also I would love to see a video on how to make that stick on fish food

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ethanspruiell2722 Stick on fish food? What do you mean exactly? Thanks

@ethanspruiell2722

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe I misunderstood, i thought you were making that “mastic” food you stick on the glass

Mine won't touch Masstick 😞

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm that's really weird... Like don't pay attention to it at all? Also when the other fish are nibbling on it, it doesn't pay any attention to it?

@clydester8108

3 жыл бұрын

@@DutchReefer The other fish love it, but my copperband ignores it. Eats mysis and brine out of the net. Have had it for 2 years, still on the small side.

@DutchReefer

3 жыл бұрын

@@clydester8108 Ah well as long as it eats mysis and brine you're good! I've fed mine that for years and he's fine :)