Aiptasia Eating Filefish (REEF SAFE?)

[IkeG]

I have been keeping a file fish for over a year and a half now. He might of killed my bubble coral last year, no proof. I feed my fish live worms and LRS reef frenzy every day. I missed a feeding last night and noticed a small colony of Acans and blastos were all hiding in their skeleton. Was mind bogged, till I watched the file fish take a direct bite from an acan and some red stuff came off of it. I grabbed the fish with my hand and in to the sump. Being said, he made my aptisa problem disappear, so he's not all that bad.

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[johnike]

Hiya Ike!

 

[Fish4udog]

I had a matted filefish ate everything but the aptasia he was suppose to he took a trip back to the LFS once i seen him take a bite out of my acans and open brain corals

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[saf1]

Had one for over a year. Great fish. Did its job well and cleaned house regarding Aiptaisia. Ate mysis and brine shrimp. Pellets. Even nori seaweed. Oh...and hammer corals, Kenya trees, zoos, and the straw that broke the camels back, my Xenia. Everything else was able to handle the nit picking he would do. Xenia patch was new and not established so I let him go.

Never touched my rose bubble tips.

Edit. Mine started small and was a matted file.

 

[geoSquid]

I hundreds upon hundreds of Aiptasia. Could be thousands.....I got one of these little guys. He annihilated all the little buggers. Once he was done, he then ate my hammer coral, a field of polyps, small toadstool leather, candy cane and neon green leather. He's in my 180 gal and haven't been able to catch him....no worries I guess...no more coral to worry about.

 

[lionfish300]

My did his job wiped all of them out. I replace him after the Copper band butterfly that passed. After that he eat whatever I feed the fish doesn't bother anything. he been with me going on 4 years. Friends asked why do I keep that ugly fish lol

 

[marc price]

Let's qualify these accounts - who used Captive Bred Bristle Tail Filefish, and who used Wild Caught?

Wondering if captive-bred are more reef safe than wild caught?

I've all SPS and not as concerned about them as I am about my Tridacna squamosa clam.

 

[Spslvr]

ive had a few over the years, the 1 i have now is a model citizen full sps some zoas and a couple lps he touches nothing, the last 1 i had however aquired a taste for blastos and comletely decimated my blasto garden

 

[mikenh77]

From what i read or seen, some eventually start nipping at some kind of coral, but not always. Taking the risk, i decided to get one a couple weeks ago. The ORA aiptasia eating filefish never touch aiptasia and ate most of the polyps off my home wrecker and Walt Disney acro frags. I didn't notice at first and thought they were ****ed due to water params, but then I caught him in the act. They are extremely easy to catch. Slow swimmers.

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[mikenh77]

From what i read or seen, some eventually start nipping at some kind of coral, but not always. Taking the risk, i decided to get one a couple weeks ago. The ORA aiptasia eating filefish never touch aiptasia and ate most of the polyps off my home wrecker and Walt Disney acro frags. I didn't notice at first and thought they were ****ed due to water params, but then I caught him in the act. They are extremely easy to catch. Slow swimmers.

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Correction: My ORA aiptasia filefish never touched aiptasia.
Not: The ORA aiptasia never touch aiptasia...

Lol i should have proofread before I sent. Some people have success. I didn't.

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[marc price]

Correction: My ORA aiptasia filefish never touched aiptasia.
Not: The ORA aiptasia never touch aiptasia...

Lol i should have proofread before I sent. Some people have success. I didn't.

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- not even a month and it wrecked havoc on the Acro's but didn't touch aiptasia:hmm2:

All of my current captive-bred ORA fish (ORA Red Sea Mimic Blenny, ORA yellow Assessor, ORA Picasso clowns) go nuts over Hikari pellets and barely touch frozen foods. When I mentioned it to ORA they said pellets are what the fish were fed at ORA so not surprised.

Great that they're easy to catch only I'd hate to find my Blue T. squamosa clam retracted into its shell like it has pinched mantel and not recover because the file-fish was nipping its mantle - of course, this is assuming my large S. gigantea anemone doesn't eat the filefish first.