Aiptasia eating filefish

[BJcorals]

Has anyone had any like with these eating majano nems?

 

[pecan2phat]

I tried them years ago for majanos and they would not touch them, ultimately had to put an Asfur angel in there.

 

[cracker]

Do these angels eat apastia also ?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Both the file and angel are likely to eat them but also have been known to turn on corals and eat/nip at them also

 

[BJcorals]

I’ve had a filefish nip at my lps but strangely the captive bred ones were the ones that did so. I had a wild one a few years ago and he didn’t touch anything but aiptasia but he passed on me when I upgraded to a bigger tank now I’m looking for a new one hopefully one that’ll eat the dreadful majanos

 

[BJcorals]

Do you guys QT your filefish?

 

[Montiman]

I have only had problems with the files eating fleshy LPS and clams. I have never seen one eat aptasia or majanos but when I put the file fish in the tank the anemones go away.

 

[ngoodermuth]

My copperband is doing a pretty good job on the aiptasia in my tank. I’ve only had him a couple of weeks and he’s knocked them back considerably.

They aren’t easy to QT, though. I gave up after a couple of tries and ordered mine from humblefish fully QT’d (and pre-trained to eat frozen from your hand lol) but, he’s not taking new orders at the moment unfortunately.

 

[CindyKz]

My filefish eats aiptaisia and zoas. I'll be rehoming him soon I think.