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I’ve had this filefish for a couple of weeks. I really like his style. He kind of reminds me of a seahorse the way he glides around. I had a few aptasia and he’s seemed to have taken care of them. He eats my homemade frozen food (salmon, shrimp, scallops, mussel, nori, garlic), too, even jumping in the mix with my blue throat trigger. However, I have a stubborn and suddenly quick growing aptasia or májano that may be too much for him.

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I’ve had this filefish for a couple of weeks. I really like his style. He kind of reminds me of a seahorse the way he glides around. I had a few aptasia and he’s seemed to have taken care of them. He eats my homemade frozen food (salmon, shrimp, scallops, mussel, nori, garlic), too, even jumping in the mix with my blue throat trigger. However, I have a stubborn and suddenly quick growing aptasia or májano that may be too much for him.

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I have a green Filefish in my Biocube right now, looks just like yours. I got him to eat the aptasia that was growing on my rock and the little bugger STILL hasn't touched them. It's been two months now and I'm starting to think I just have some bad luck because I bought a peppermint shrimp hoping maybe he'll take care of it. Nope.

I've started to just attack them with the long tongs and rip them out. It works sometimes....
 

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I've had two filefish that wouldn't touch larger aptasia but would clear out all the smaller ones.
 

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I’ve had this filefish for a couple of weeks. I really like his style. He kind of reminds me of a seahorse the way he glides around. I had a few aptasia and he’s seemed to have taken care of them. He eats my homemade frozen food (salmon, shrimp, scallops, mussel, nori, garlic), too, even jumping in the mix with my blue throat trigger. However, I have a stubborn and suddenly quick growing aptasia or májano that may be too much for him.

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Lethermatt who eat filefish are hit and miss. They eat them or they dont. One trick is to drop their food into aptasia and they will go after the food and the aptasia.
If its a few aptasia, you can go simple and use a syringe or pipette and inject either lemon juice or better yet. . kalkwasser powder mixed with tank water into a paste the consistency of toothpaste and inject into the very center core and it will melt away
 

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