Aiptasia eating filefish?

[LMDAVE]

I picked up this Filefish from LFS as an aiptasia eating type. Just curious if some one can verify this is that species.

 

[ndrwater]

Looks to be so, but in my experience, one can only be sure if you actually SEE it eating Aptasia. Otherwise, it's just a filefish.

 

[Webslinger]

definitely not the aphasia eating file fish (Acreichthys tomentosus). It looks to be the spotted filefish.

 

[LMDAVE]

That explains why it never touched aiptasia yet. That sucks. Feel LFS made a mistake, they knew i was fighting aiptasia but I only ask for a filefish and they had one in their back stock. I assume they knew i was getting it for aiptasia. This is a different picture when I changed color some

 

[lion king]

Could be a Monacanthus ciliatus, fringed filefish; the same thing just happened to me. Many times wild caught filefish are just automatically classified as an aiptasia eating filefish.