African Butterfly fish ( Pantodon buchholzi )

[Tomsfish35 34]

I fed small krill and live crickets.
If you offer crickets prepare to hear crickets in your house.
You may need to disable them.
If you try something like frozen blood worms use tweezers to keep your offering t surface near the fish.
This way you can see if it eats and not waste food.
Tweezers for the crickets worked also for me.

 

[Magnum Man77 191]

so, this has become routine… I turn off the lights, 10 minutes later, as the tank begins to settle down, I feed a floating food, the butterfly comes out, and stays out all night, until the lights come fully on in the morning, then it goes back to it’s bat cave… I’ve spent a good amount if time looking for it, during daylight, but it shows up every night looking great…

 

[Magnum Man77 191]

as it slowly disappears into the roots, as the lights begin to come on and the tank wakes up ( it’s easiest to see it’s striped lower extensions in this picture )

 

[Tomsfish35 34]

How is the butterfly doing?

 

[Magnum Man77 191]

I lost it a week or so ago… thought everything was working out, but suspect the largest cichlid was the cause…

 

[Tomsfish35 34]

That's a shame.
Although he could have been picked on I would wonder how well it was eating.
They are tough to feed.
Sorry about the loss, they are a very interesting low key fish.

 

[GaryE37 35]

That's a shame, but it's a really difficult fish. I was wondering if it would take pellets. Some fish never do.