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Hi does anyone have experience in how long Matted filefish live in a reef tank? (dont trust the online sites that all quote the same thing)
I've had mine ~5 years and found it today on the sand bed still breathing but not moving. No one ever picked on it, it is/was a model citizen. Would be a bummer to lose it cause my husbandry was not up to standard . When I got it it was pretty big, it did grow maybe another 1/4 of an inch in my tank. So not sure if it was already approaching adulthood.
For the last month its had a weird growth on its tail (i've checked and rechecked every disease picture out on the internet, doesnt look like anything out there, looks like a piece of hair algae was growing on the tail, one side only, never got bigger or smaller). It ate fine yesterday (it would eat everything I put in the tank).
I've had mine ~5 years and found it today on the sand bed still breathing but not moving. No one ever picked on it, it is/was a model citizen. Would be a bummer to lose it cause my husbandry was not up to standard . When I got it it was pretty big, it did grow maybe another 1/4 of an inch in my tank. So not sure if it was already approaching adulthood.
For the last month its had a weird growth on its tail (i've checked and rechecked every disease picture out on the internet, doesnt look like anything out there, looks like a piece of hair algae was growing on the tail, one side only, never got bigger or smaller). It ate fine yesterday (it would eat everything I put in the tank).