namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
IME, the fish were pretty "stealthy" when it came to eating appies...it took about a week or so before i noticed the appies slowly disappearing until they were gone.
they're pretty cool fish, regardless.
Aiptasia Eating Filefish (REEF SAFE?)
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IME, the fish were pretty "stealthy" when it came to eating appies...it took about a week or so before i noticed the appies slowly disappearing until they were gone.
they're pretty cool fish, regardless.
pleasants9
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which seems more effective, the aiptasia eating nudibranchs or the filefish? I have a puffer so the peppermint shrimp is out of the question.
Gotcha!
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The filefish. Good luck if you choose the nudibranches. Mine never helped much but after getting the filefish the problem was solved in a couple of weeks and then brine shrimp and mysis was all it would eat. I lost my filefish reciently, however, after upgrading my system to an elos 120 with aquatop LED. My filefish, Somehow, found its way out the side of the aquatop and landed on the carpet and we all know what happened then. Very sad day. I would recommend this fish for anyones aptasia issues and watch the fish for a while. I used to use Joes juice and things like that and wonder why I ever even did that. These little filefish are great. I will be looking for a pair soon to replace my lost fish yet I have no more aptasia in the system to entice the godly feeding habits these little filefish have and trust me my aptasia problem was real bad until I added this filefish. After that I would recommend this approach as long as you monitor the filefish for a while. They also seem to be super friendly to all other fish.
I also have 2 pepermint shrimp females and they never hardly touched any aptasia. I would not recommend them for control of your problem.
unbelievable
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I have one that never touched aiptasia but nipped at sps and really munched on some chalices.
Gotcha!
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I guess its hit or miss on the fish. I do not have lots of sps yet I do have rare chalices and the filefish never touched them. My fish cleaned up a serious aptasia issue in 2 weeks and then took frozen food like crazy. I guess I would say if the fish is not eating the aptasia trade it in for another and see what happens.
billyWhite
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I picked one of these up and it did an amazing job clearing out the Aiptasia that was taking over my tank. And my shrimps. And my zoos. And my more 'delicate hermits'. Pretty neat, but very hungry, fish.
WillBattle
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I had to take this type of file fish out of my reef tank, becuase he chowed down on a few colonys of zoas in the 24 hour period he was in the tank. I think it is hit or miss with this fish into being reef safe.
RadReefer
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I had a small one for a short period of time. I feed very heavily so I had an outbreak of aiptaisia and majonos. It went to town nipping all my SPS. Didn't touch any majonos or aiptaisia. I took it back and got a Copperband. The Copperband eliminated all aiptaisia in days and picks at majonos as well. It doesn't touch any Corals at all and is much nicer looking than the filefish.
ReeferKimberly
Marley & Me
Mine ate aiptasia, duncans, xenia, and zoas
I've purchased one of these little dudes. He keeps taking stuff off of my lr without bothering any corals in my DT. He super matey with my emperor cardinal and star blenny, ming and blenny banassi we call em. He comes to glass to see what I'm doing round my living room. Great little dude and ate my aips that we got him for.
Sapelo
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We have a slender. Great fish. We do not have an aptasia problem so I cannot speak to that, but based on he number of featherdusters he hasn't touched I would bet no.
He does eat pods but also any frozen preparation and he loves nori.
He has not bothered zoas or sps.
Very cool fish.
He does eat pods but also any frozen preparation and he loves nori.
He has not bothered zoas or sps.
Very cool fish.
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