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Captive or wild?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.
+1!Aiptasia elimination and/or good behavior!
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 aptasiaCaptive or wild?
That sucks.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.
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.That sucks.
I agree with Joshua totally. Got any nori? Mine liked spinach too. Might skew his focus?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.
It won’t stop until it’s gone, and then on to other yummy coral.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?