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My Tank Thread
Believe it or not, there was a time about 10 years ago when I was actually looking for a tank like that. Not to purchase but to experiment upon. You see, I had a Muelleri Butterfly then who I thought actually ate majano anemones as well as aiptasia. I just needed a heavily infested tank to make sure. Never did find one even close to this bad and that particular fish is gone now (lived 7 years). Would've loved to see who ate whom.
At one point my tank was FULL of these anemones. And by full, they covered 90% less of my rocks of than this tank... maybe even less. But that was a SERIOUS infestation.
I bought several pearlscale butterflies over a few years that did some work, but would not live past 3-9 months. I then bought a matted filefish that took care of them all. ALL. I moved him throughout my four tanks, then sold him. To this day, I think I have three mojanos in all of my tanks combined (must have grown back). I loved that fish but he also loved zoa...
I might also add he did NOTHING on ANY aiptasia... I still have maybe 15 medium/lg aiptasia in my tanks. I don't care a whole lot, but if I ever do I will probably try another filefish.

