Do file fish eat zoanthids?

[Jacksfish2020]

I just picked up a file fish maybe a week ago, I put him in my tank and the first thing he did was go up to my gsp and pick at it, luckily he has stoped doing that , but what my concern is that I was going to buy some zoathids and a “clove” coral and put them on a frag rack “expensive” zoas does anyone know if first of all zoas are hardy corals like gsp and or with my file fish pick/ eat my “expensive” zoanthids

 

[fishguy242]

hi,video does not play for me have a pic? what type file,odds are not good if already picking at corals

 

[Jacksfish2020]

hi,video does not play for me have a pic? what type file,odds are not good if already picking at corals

Well he’s stopped, and All my corals seem to be happy, and he seems to be alright and not picking at anything anymore

 

[Jacksfish2020]

Well he’s stopped, and All my corals seem to be happy, and he seems to be alright and not picking at anything anymore

Just wondering if the zoanthids might catch his eye? Not sure what kind of filefish

 

[fishguy242]

good to hear can you get a pic? i would try cheap zoa frag and observe first

 

[FishDaddy1992]

Did you experience it eating the zoa's?

 

[OrchidMiss]

I've experienced file fish eating LPS, some really pretty and expensive ones, but left the dumb zoas alone.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I just picked up a file fish maybe a week ago, I put him in my tank and the first thing he did was go up to my gsp and pick at it, luckily he has stoped doing that , but what my concern is that I was going to buy some zoathids and a “clove” coral and put them on a frag rack “expensive” zoas does anyone know if first of all zoas are hardy corals like gsp and or with my file fish pick/ eat my “expensive” zoanthids

File fish eat anything.

They are completely not reef safe.

 

[Ribo15]

I just went through this. File fish ate 2 nice frags of zoa in a real hurry! He’s gone back to the LFS. Not again will I risk it.

 

[mfinn]

I recently lost a large colony( 50+ polyps) of Purple Monsters and I suspect the file fish.

 

[Derrick0580]

I bought a captive bred aiptasia filefish a while back. After he cleaned up the garbage nems, my zoas started staying closed and torches always retracted. Never saw the file fish physically nipping at anything but on a whim I sumped him and a few weeks later all the retracted corals started opening again like normal.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I recently lost a large colony( 50+ polyps) of Purple Monsters and I suspect the file fish.

One killed $1k of Scoly's overnight when I had one.

Don't trust them.

Good in Fowlr Tanks - fun fish to watch.

 

[OrchidMiss]

turned into

 

[NCsalt]

I’ve heard the Radial Filefish live in Xenia. I wonder if you had a good bit they would just mess with it.

I used to catch little filefish while growing up on the dock with a dipnet. They were very small and would appear to be a piece of debris on the surface that would move on its own.

Those memories have me thinking about one. But I’ve seen the horror stories on here with coral.

 

[jmichaelh7]

They definitely eat zoas

 

[Seansea]

Keep him fed well and might increase chances of not. I keep a bi color angelfish which are notorious coral nippers and i feed nori twice a day as well as frozen/pellets twice a day. Has cut it down dramatically but wouldnt say stopped it.

 

[Ober_Reef]

Mine definitely did, ate a whole colony of Nightmare Palys

 

[jmichaelh7]

Mine definitely did, ate a whole colony of Nightmare Palys

I feed heavy , I’m talking .4 phosphate heavy

He still kept me from having zoa gardens . Decimated everything

Sadly I won’t put him back in when done with fallow