Silly green filefish!!

[Desperado]

Well I've had 2 before that cleaned up my aptasia nicely.

The one I have now is slowly starting on aptasia but also has a thing for my pagoda coral polyps :(

Oh well, I know it's a risk but I had such good luck with my others thought I could get lucky again.

Hopefully my pagoda will retract polyps and stay safe until I can figure out something.

 

[luke33]

They are hit or miss. I've had some eat aptasia, some not touch it, and some that loved LPS.

 

[MIKE NY]

mine doesn't touch aiptasia, but it doesn't touch any coral either...

 

[joshporksandwich]

I had one and after it ate all aptasia it went after lps and a few zoas. But he was awesome before it ate like 30 Bowsers lol

 

[Desperado]

Just got home. Noticing a lot of aptasia gone but my pagoda looks like hell. Here are 2 pics. One from a few days ago and one from today. Possible
The filefish could eat the polyps ??

 

[Flameback Pair]

Green filefish? Can you post a pic or link?

 

[Desperado]

Wow. Once a green filefish gets a taste of aptasia he mows it down!!!!! It took this one 4 weeks to start nipping at aptasia but now he's got almost all gone in 2 days! Also starting to see some polyps come back on pagoda. Perhaps it didn't like being next to my plate coral