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Yup, I had one of those biota matted filefish, took out my acans, a green torch and then a beautiful multiheaded Aussie gold torch. Now have peppermint shrimp and no issues with aptasia any moreCaught my biota filefish picking at my gold hammer as well as 3 other hammer colonies last night. ✌
Mine do not. I got annoyed with aiptasia so I added about 20 peppermint shrimp and 2 file fish to my tank after dropping $300 on nudibranches- which I have had luck with in the past. The file fish were sold as “Aiptasia eating file fish” from live aquaria. They are two different species.I have an ongoing aiptasia problem and was strongly considering adding a filefish to help out.
According to most fish retailers, they do nip at corals. However, when asking for personal experience from other reefers, they say theirs was well behaved.
What about yours?
Would be helpful if you included the types of corals in your tank.
Mine killed $1k of scolies in a couple of days before he was returnedI have an ongoing aiptasia problem and was strongly considering adding a filefish to help out.
According to most fish retailers, they do nip at corals. However, when asking for personal experience from other reefers, they say theirs was well behaved.
What about yours?
Would be helpful if you included the types of corals in your tank.
Just returned him to the lfs after he turned his attn to my Solomon Hairy Leather and I noticed zoa polyps disappearing.Mine killed $1k of scolies in a couple of days before he was returned
Yep! Unfortunately choice is Filefish goes or FOWLR tank!I'm a little late to this conversation but I just found it. I have a newish display and have had some aptasia pop up, so I bought a filefish from my LFS. This guy hasn't touched the aptasia but is tearing into my acans and clove polyps. I don't care too much about the cloves, but the acans are worth more than he is.
Don’t Nudibranches also eat ZoaGet nudibraches. I haven’t tried a filefish personally but I’ve seen many threads on here of them nipping coral.
There are zoa-eating nudibranchs, but Berghia nudibranchs only eat Aiptasia.Don’t Nudibranches also eat Zoa