Najer's zen twins.

[Mortie31]

I want to do a post on the file fish but I wouldn't be able to keep up!
It really is swimming around like a community fish, early doors still, I really need to get a good pic of it and it's little pudgy tummy.

Love your file fish.... it may be that they don’t like sps as much as the literature says so, I always wonder where they get the info to right the reports... we didn’t keep angels with sps for years because of the “literature”. I wonder if anyone actually observed the file fish biting chunks of sps in the wild lol. I used to have a 4 spot butterfly which according to the “literature” apparently pocillipora is a particular favourite... never went near mine...

 

[RichtheReefer21]

What did u find that works for ur gorg simon?

Gorgeous new fish. So unique.

 

[najer]

Love your file fish.... it may be that they don’t like sps as much as the literature says so, I always wonder where they get the info to right the reports... we didn’t keep angels with sps for years because of the “literature”. I wonder if anyone actually observed the file fish biting chunks of sps in the wild lol. I used to have a 4 spot butterfly which according to the “literature” apparently pocillipora is a particular favourite... never went near mine...

Well said, I watched it in the shop, it had a natural instinct, pecking!
It does eat pods, it will never starve in here!
I have had a new auto feeder set to feed 6 times a day whilst I am at work.
My particular one appears to be a natural scavenger, still confident!

 

[Mortie31]

Well said, I watched it in the shop, it had a natural instinct, pecking!
It does eat pods, it will never starve in here!
I have had a new auto feeder set to feed 6 times a day whilst I am at work.
My particular one appears to be a natural scavenger, still confident!

If it does peck at your sps the tips will soon grow back... and sometimes faster than before... don’t they call it micro fragging... you could always get some more sps another dalt Wisney or similar, just in case he’s a gourmet...

 

[najer]

If it does peck at your sps the tips will soon grow back... and sometimes faster than before... don’t they call it micro fragging... you could always get some more sps another dalt Wisney or similar, just in case he’s a gourmet...

It pecks at sps lps and softies, it is very easily distracted by food in the water column, I didn't take it on lightly!

 

[Mortie31]

It pecks at sps lps and softies, it is very easily distracted by food in the water column, I didn't take it on lightly!

I’m watching with interest, be great if these aren’t as risky to SPs as were led to believe..

 

[najer]

What did u find that works for ur gorg simon?

Gorgeous new fish. So unique.

It is doing rubbish, keeps getting covered in cyano, I could put it in the s tank but that means putting a powerhead back in.
I have a jebao rw4 somewhere, I'll clean it and pop that in and start at power one, this could get very ugly so I will put some floss behind the weir slots.

 

[najer]

"I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything?!"

 

[Victoria M]

What a beautiful fish.

 

[najer]

What a beautiful fish.

I know right and apparently I am sacrificing my sps to house it?

 

[Mortie31]

I know right and apparently I am sacrificing my sps to house it?

The more I look at this fish, the less I can believe he can do much damage, a long thin nose like that, just doesn’t seem designed to eat sps. More like for probing between the branches to get at pods etc.

 

[ngoodermuth]

"I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything?!"

That first picture... omg. He is so cool! Eat all the SPS you want little pretty fish... [emoji7]

When my tank grows in more, and I have all large enough colonies to take a good nipping without the entire frag going up in smoke... I’d totally let one come sample a branch or two

 

[Sallstrom]

The more I look at this fish, the less I can believe he can do much damage, a long thin nose like that, just doesn’t seem designed to eat sps. More like for probing between the branches to get at pods etc.

I promise you, they are excellent SPS polyp eaters They'll hover around amongst the corals branches and pick one polyp here, one polyp there.
I can't say how much damage they'll do in a regular sized tank with a couple of SPS colonies. Our two file fish lives in a 10m3 SPS dominated tank and they don't stay at the same coral for long. So the corals seems to handle it well. But we don't see as much polyp extension during daytime now as before we got these fishes.

 

[SPR1968]

"I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything?!"

That’s a great picture Simon, what a pretty face

Do you think he will be easy to catch!? Lol

 

[najer]

I am learning more about him every day and he now swims around like a community fish and appears to get along with everyone.
The feed ring works as it has a circular flow and holds the food.
Vitalis xs marine pellets just fed, the tassle and orange spot take them from the surface before they get into the water column.

 

[Martinc2]

Ahah the filefish pic such classic Simon

 

[najer]

Ahah the filefish pic such classic Simon

Welcome mate, get a journal started for that box of fish if you are who I think you are!

 

[najer]

... awwww, my first photobomb!

The brown frag I got a couple of weeks ago, colouring up nicely now.

 

[Martinc2]

Welcome mate, get a journal started for that box of fish if you are who I think you are!

I plan to thought I might bait you a bit first

 

[Danharper20]

Amazing tank, loving the variety of life in it. Sorry if I missed it but could you recap the setup? Equipment and dosing? Interested as I hope one day my tank will be close to yours.