mfinn
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A Matted File Fish cured my aptasia and majano problem in two tanks.
First in my 240, then in my 50.
First in my 240, then in my 50.
aptasia out of control
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mfinn
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Not the most colorful fish, but very unusual shape.
I moved it out of my 240 about 5-6 months ago and still no sign of the aptasia's or majano's coming back.
He has the exact species as well...No luck at all. its been about 2 weeks and it hasnt touched em. At least he is reef safe 
mfinn
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He has the exact species as well...No luck at all. its been about 2 weeks and it hasnt touched em. At least he is reef safe
My file fish took weeks before he went after any.
In fact I had given up on him, untill one day I noticed one end of the tank that had some rather large aptasias, was totally clear of them.
I could never catch him eating any, but in a few more weeks, there were hardly any majanos.
In my 240 there were hundreds, especially down the back side where I couldn't reach with any kind of kalk paste type treatment.
After a couple months it was totally clean.
Hmm, well maybe he will have the same results with the help of the butterfly. I just hope they arent messy eaters. It just sounds like that method would spread, but like I said, I dont get aptasia. lol. Suppliers are like cheap brothels, they need to clean their products before we all get AIDStasia
sokarber
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I had one and called it my special ugly fish. It took care of my Aiptasia in a few weeks. We were able to get to a point to watch him line up for the shot and dart into the rock to get a bite.
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He ended up getting the butterfly as well.. we will see how it goes :/ If I had room to quarantine his fish I would do it for him and just take out the rocks and start over...I want to so bad! haha
Pkunk35
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Well at least the filefish and butterfly have a lot of food!
From initial research it seems that the filefish is pretty good at ridding aiptasia but as said here not many people have actually seen it eating...strange!
I hope he has luck with them!
reefpeeper
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I had a filefish and it did a great job until the population of majano/aiptasia went down. Then he started eating my zoas. The same will happen with a butterfly.
I will Definitely warn him. He has one large colony of some kind of brown button polyps the size of my head and that is it.
I feel he has at least 2 months of food for them lol, He doesnt mind returning things, he really just wanted a goby and a wrasse, but felt it was better to go with some pest control since he found his Blue Devil Damsel dead. I dont know what the side effects of Aptasia or a foxface sting are so I told him it was probably either...He was a healthy fish. He found him curled in rigor mortis and brown on one side..Yuck...at least there wont be a future hassle of catching him when he adds a peaceful defenseless fish
I feel he has at least 2 months of food for them lol, He doesnt mind returning things, he really just wanted a goby and a wrasse, but felt it was better to go with some pest control since he found his Blue Devil Damsel dead. I dont know what the side effects of Aptasia or a foxface sting are so I told him it was probably either...He was a healthy fish. He found him curled in rigor mortis and brown on one side..Yuck...at least there wont be a future hassle of catching him when he adds a peaceful defenseless fish
CRW Reefer
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I have kept a file fish in 100+ zoa colonies tank for over a year now with no issues. As always each fish is different, so its always a gamble. However my filefish can most times than not be found at top of tank somewhere chilling so could be caught easily should I suspect a problem.
