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Mike612

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They aren't some of the greatest pictures but this is my new Golden Butterfly. It's doing really well. It was attacked by my Lemonpeel Angel (no longer a resident of my tank) the first day but it's fin healed and it's eating very well. What I especially like about this Butterfly, other than the fact that it's somewhat rare, is that it doesn't pick at my coral or invertebrates. It doesn't touch my soft corals, sps coral, anemone, starfish, shrimp, or lps coral. The only coral it picks at is one of my two brain corals. I'm not exactly sure what makes that coral so special over the other brain coral but anyways that's what it does.

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I had this Venustus Angel for six months. It was one of my favourite fish. It picked at my button polyps and my Blue Linkia Starfish and at the live rock and nori when I put it in but it never ate anything I offered it. I went out of town in October and had somebody come to feed the fish while I was gone and when I came back, the angel was unfortunately dead. It had nothing to do with the person feeding them though because like I said, it never ate food I offered. She said it had problems balancing itself when she was there and that it wasn't swimming properly so I'm assuming it had a buoyancy problem. Oh well, I would love to get another one of these guys though. They're great fish.
 

Unarce

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Nice!

I've been considering adding a Golden Butterfly, but was worried out my SPS and clams. I'll need to do some research and see if others share the same experience as you.

Is yours by itself? I've heard they do much better in pairs or groups.
 

Mike612

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Yeah mine's by itself. It was the only Butterfly at the store. If it wasn't, I would've gotten more than one. Mine's constantly looking at it's reflection and sort of dancing with it so I think it would've done better with a second or a group.
 

Hiroyuki Tanaka

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I too like them so much, but Centropyge venusta is somewhat a rare fish in the aquarium trade. We Japanese can see them regularly, but small to juvenile specimens are rather rare.

This is a 3cm long specimen. It is now treated as members of the genus Centropyge, not of Paracentropyge that was deleted.
 

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Pavaphon

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you all will be surprised if you know the price of the C. venustus in Thailand.
They're selling this species very cheap! about 20 USD each, available from time-to-time. Nice but a difficult fish to maintain over a long period.
 

Mike612

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Wow that is cheap, but also isn't that fish found somewhere in your area? Anyways, I loved this fish. I personally hate angelfish because they pick on passive fish (my firefish never came out of their cave when I put my lemonpeel in because it always chased them) but this one I got really attached to and would be willing to care for again (because it's pretty and I don't find it aggressive). It is a pretty hard fish to care for but I got attached to my other one and so I think that it's worth trying again. It'll take me a while to find another one but until then, I'll take care of my other fish and build up my reef.
 

Pavaphon

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the fish was exported from the philippines, and they are delicate.
If the fish survived, it will be a great fish in your tank!
 

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