Post your Filefish reef success stories!

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Post up your success story involving filefish and success in your reef! Include if they were wild caught or captive-bred and what casualties you suffered.

 

[Midrats]

Are you looking for Aiptasia elimination success stories?

 

[dumpysauce]

Ive got a ORA whitespot filefish. Its tiny. Its been great so far. hasn't touched any corals yet. Never had any apatasia, so take of that what you will.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Aiptasia elimination and/or good behavior!

 

[Fishyfish22]

Got an aptasia eating filefish for the sole purpose of eradicating aptasia. He ate it all, then went on to eat only pellets and mysis, not touching coral. Then aptasia is came back and the bugger got so used to the easy life he wouldn't eat it anymore.

So I got a copperband. Guess what, it decided to only eat pellets and mysis too. Again, it didn't touch coral but must've seen how easy the filefish had it because he left aptasia alone and decided to stick with the fed stuff.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Got an aptasia eating filefish for the sole purpose of eradicating aptasia. He ate it all, then went on to eat only pellets and mysis, not touching coral. Then aptasia is came back and the bugger got so used to the easy life he wouldn't eat it anymore.

So I got a copperband. Guess what, it decided to only eat pellets and mysis too. Again, it didn't touch coral but must've seen how easy the filefish had it because he left aptasia alone and decided to stick with the fed stuff.

Captive or wild?

 

[runcis]

Aiptasia elimination and/or good behavior!

+1!

 

[Fishyfish22]

Captive or wild?

I believe he was wild, but i may be wrong. I wasn't differentiating between captive vs wild when i was looking; at the time i just needed a filefish for aptasia

 

[tehmadreefer]

They all turn out the same way, eat aiptasia here and there then devour all your lps, end of story...

 

[Mastiffsrule]

I loved mine. Had a male for years. He wiped out my outbreak. Took him a month to start eating, after that a month to get the 180 under control.

He became my favorite fish. I lost him 3 months ago after about 2 years. He ate Nori sheets and every other food I fed, I think my flame tang started to bully him along with a few other fish. He suddenly disappeared.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

I loved mine. Had a male for years. He wiped out my outbreak. Took him a month to start eating, after that a month to get the 180 under control.

He became my favorite fish. I lost him 3 months ago after about 2 years. He ate Nori sheets and every other food I fed, I think my flame tang started to bully him along with a few other fish. He suddenly disappeared.

That sucks.

 

[00W]

That sucks.

I loved mine too. Bought him at Petco for$9. Made it through bad ich outbreak. He was my only fish for 6 months until I started to give him a few friends here and there.
He was friendly, smart and shy. Ate everything. Never touched a coral. Never touched another fish. Would change colors to whatever he was next to. A true chameleon. One of my favorite fish of all time.
The card said he wasn't wild but who knows.
He lived 4 years but finally just couldn't eat fast enough to keep up with everyone else. I tried feeding him by hand but my tang just out ate him if you will.
I highly recommend file fish to anyone with a gentle tank.

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Just added a CB apitasia eating filefish from Biota. Within 24 hours I saw him eat an aiptasia immediately followed by a leather coral polyp. Think I should just pull him?

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

If you like the leather maybe. I dunno. A nip here and there is one thing. If he develops a taste for it that may be a problem.

 

[00W]

If you like the leather maybe. I dunno. A nip here and there is one thing. If he develops a taste for it that may be a problem.

I agree with Joshua totally. Got any nori? Mine liked spinach too. Might skew his focus?

 

[Michael Biando]

I have one In my Red Sea 350 and he is doing great. Took him a few weeks before he started eating the aiptasia but now he has cleaned it all out. Have had him for three months and he is growing and eating mysis shrimp.

 

[tehmadreefer]

Just added a CB apitasia eating filefish from Biota. Within 24 hours I saw him eat an aiptasia immediately followed by a leather coral polyp. Think I should just pull him?

It won’t stop until it’s gone, and then on to other yummy coral.