My one buddy has a matted file fish it ate all of his aptasia in around a week , i asked a LFS and was told they dont like aptasia and other types of file fish do , does anyone have a file fish that eats it or has had an exspeirence one eating the aptasia.I have tried everything and they come back , even pepperment shrimp but my flamehawk loves to eat them before they eat the aptasia lol.
Matted File fish or File fish in general
- Thread starter jarock
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yote
In Memoriam
Most filefish will eat aiptasia.But as soon as the aiptasia is gone,they go after your corals.
yote
In Memoriam
From what I've seen of the filefish,all corals.At least every one of em I've seem come through the LFS any way.
andysgirl8800
Blenny Badlands
A copper banded butterfly will also eat aiptasia, should not go after your corals once the aiptasia is gone, but will starve to death instead.
ltljoker
The Great Tang Herder
If you dont have alot of aptasia's just grab yourself a bottle of aptasia x and your problems will be solved ..... and you wont have to starve a fish in the process:Cheers:
BL1
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It isn't that it's a temporary fix, you have to get all of them with the Aiptasia X. If you miss even one then they'll start reproducing and coming back
yote
In Memoriam
+1 Brian
You've got to get em all or nothing is gonna work.
You've got to get em all or nothing is gonna work.
I recently got a matted filefish and I can't believe my eyes! It's been in my tank for just about a month now and 500 aptaisia have turned into two. He eats mysis, pellets and unfortunately zoas. No major damage yet but I don't mind some friendly fire in the tank because it sure saves me a lot of time and headaches otherwise. I'll post some updates.
