I need a proven aiptasia eating File Fish

[lauremf2002]

Would someone be willing to loan or sell me their File fish? I will put down a deposit if you want to loan it and I will post my parameters later this evening. I have a 90g tank that is overrun with aiptasia. Right now, the only inhabitants are a pair of gold striped maroon clowns and a Springeri Dottiback, so no one would bother him. I purchased a filefish several months ago, but he never ate anything and ended up starving. I would like a proven fish this time. Thanks!

 

[ToXIc69]

the only inhabitants are a pair of gold striped maroon clowns and a Springeri Dottiback, so no one would bother him.

they may not be soo friendly...

 

[lauremf2002]

they may not be soo friendly...

The clowns dont mess with anything and the dottiback doesnt pay any attention to fish that are bigger than he is. None of them bothered my first file fish.

 

[Glazner]

You might check with Aquariums in Edmond. I got a H. Butterfly, forget the name, black and white striped. He ate my aptasia but moved on to some of my acans... so I returned him. Depending on what corals you have you might want to consider one. He did eat aptasia. They had one in their frag tank that I don't think bothered anything...

 

[lauremf2002]

Calcium 380
Alkalinity 8
Mag 1350
Nitrate 5
Ph 8.4
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
phosphate 0

I have acans so I would rather not risk the butterfly

 

[MBryant]

My file fish won't eat them ether. It eats fish food though.

 

[madkat]

mine eats pellet food and it took him about 2 weeks to eat his first aptaisia. Then my tank sprung a leak, moved to the 46, 2 more weeks for first apt eat..... then back into the 180. Still has not touched an aptaisia....

I think they just take awhile to get used to their environments

 

[lauremf2002]

No mine never ate anything. No fish food, no aiptasia, nothing. It died of starvation after a little over a month.