raccoon butterfly fish

[SkySouza]

Anyone have experience with these guys in a reef tank?

I purchased a new piece if live rock to fill a void in my tank and now I have apista (sp)
on a neighboring rock. Lfs suggested a raccoon butterfly saying they're hardier and adept at taking care of this than a coppperband and I didn't want to spend 10 bucks a pop on 7 shrimp to clean the 75 since I'm getting ready to upgrade to the 240 and they'd just get lost.

Heard really mixed reviews. Thinking I might keep it til the weeds are gone and them remove it when I make the jump to the 240

 

[nonstophoops]

Anyone have experience with these guys in a reef tank?

I purchased a new piece if live rock to fill a void in my tank and now I have apista (sp)
on a neighboring rock. Lfs suggested a raccoon butterfly saying they're hardier and adept at taking care of this than a coppperband and I didn't want to spend 10 bucks a pop on 7 shrimp to clean the 75 since I'm getting ready to upgrade to the 240 and they'd just get lost.

Heard really mixed reviews. Thinking I might keep it til the weeds are gone and them remove it when I make the jump to the 240

It's going to pick at your corals too.

Why would you have to buy 7 shrimp? You could just buy a couple and hope they took care of the problem. Also, if they cost you 10 bucks your getting screwed. They should be about 5 or less.

 

[Pig8enis]

I have seen them work wonders in aptasia control. As a matter of fact the lightening maroon blog was recently using one for just that ( videos posted showing the animal hard at work.). A lot of time you can hook up with a local reef club and they will have something club bought to pass around. There are literally thousands of ways to deal with aptaisa. Pick your poison.

 

[cdc]

I had a Raccoon and it was nasty, it would constantly bite the tails and fight with other fish twice its size. I took it back to the lfs and he put it into one of his tanks and it immediately started fighting with his fish. He ended up putting it in with a trigger and a big puffer fish.

He said they are not usually like this so maybe mine just had a bad attitude.

 

[SkySouza]

It's going to pick at your corals too.

Why would you have to buy 7 shrimp? You could just buy a couple and hope they took care of the problem. Also, if they cost you 10 bucks your getting screwed. They should be about 5 or less.

$10 is the going rate at all three of the petstores within an hours driving distance of me. I've seen them online for four of rive dollars but shipping puts them up to the same as buying them local.

I just don't want to spend $40 bucks on four of them to have em just disappear in my tank and not get the job done.