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12/16/2011, 01:21 PM | #26 |
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I picked one of these up and it did an amazing job clearing out the Aiptasia that was taking over my tank. And my shrimps. And my zoos. And my more 'delicate hermits'. Pretty neat, but very hungry, fish.
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12/16/2011, 01:55 PM | #27 |
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I had to take this type of file fish out of my reef tank, becuase he chowed down on a few colonys of zoas in the 24 hour period he was in the tank. I think it is hit or miss with this fish into being reef safe.
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12/16/2011, 05:49 PM | #28 |
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Mine heat ate all my Aiptasia!
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12/16/2011, 05:49 PM | #29 |
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After that all my xenias!
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12/16/2011, 05:50 PM | #30 |
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Then no more problems... it turn him self into a good boy.
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04/03/2014, 01:00 AM | #31 |
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How about the "Slender Filefish" (Monacanthus tuckeri). Anyone have any experience with one in a reef?
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04/03/2014, 04:41 AM | #32 |
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I had a Matted years ago and gave him away when it was done with my Aiptasia. I have a pair now.
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04/03/2014, 03:17 PM | #33 |
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I had a small one for a short period of time. I feed very heavily so I had an outbreak of aiptaisia and majonos. It went to town nipping all my SPS. Didn't touch any majonos or aiptaisia. I took it back and got a Copperband. The Copperband eliminated all aiptaisia in days and picks at majonos as well. It doesn't touch any Corals at all and is much nicer looking than the filefish.
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04/03/2014, 03:21 PM | #34 |
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Mine ate aiptasia, duncans, xenia, and zoas
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02/13/2016, 04:29 AM | #35 |
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I've purchased one of these little dudes. He keeps taking stuff off of my lr without bothering any corals in my DT. He super matey with my emperor cardinal and star blenny, ming and blenny banassi we call em. He comes to glass to see what I'm doing round my living room. Great little dude and ate my aips that we got him for.
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02/13/2016, 05:36 AM | #36 |
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We have a slender. Great fish. We do not have an aptasia problem so I cannot speak to that, but based on he number of featherdusters he hasn't touched I would bet no.
He does eat pods but also any frozen preparation and he loves nori. He has not bothered zoas or sps. Very cool fish. |
02/13/2016, 08:13 AM | #37 |
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My Matted File Fish does't pick on any of my corals. He loves picking at the rock and will eat a bristle worm if he catches one peeking out from under or out of the rocks. He Loves mysis
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02/13/2016, 10:00 AM | #38 |
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I have a pair in my tank. Very personable little guys who destroyed any Aptasia I had. Unfortunately they like to pick on my snails also. Still worth a snail or so every so often to not have Aptasia.
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02/13/2016, 02:50 PM | #39 |
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My younger son loves broccoli, my older son hates it ..... and they're both human.
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06/10/2016, 05:00 PM | #41 |
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I have been keeping a file fish for over a year and a half now. He might of killed my bubble coral last year, no proof. I feed my fish live worms and LRS reef frenzy every day. I missed a feeding last night and noticed a small colony of Acans and blastos were all hiding in their skeleton. Was mind bogged, till I watched the file fish take a direct bite from an acan and some red stuff came off of it. I grabbed the fish with my hand and in to the sump. Being said, he made my aptisa problem disappear, so he's not all that bad.
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06/10/2016, 05:06 PM | #42 |
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Hiya Ike!
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06/10/2016, 07:36 PM | #43 |
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I had a matted filefish ate everything but the aptasia he was suppose to he took a trip back to the LFS once i seen him take a bite out of my acans and open brain corals
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06/11/2016, 12:15 AM | #44 |
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Had one for over a year. Great fish. Did its job well and cleaned house regarding Aiptaisia. Ate mysis and brine shrimp. Pellets. Even nori seaweed. Oh...and hammer corals, Kenya trees, zoos, and the straw that broke the camels back, my Xenia. Everything else was able to handle the nit picking he would do. Xenia patch was new and not established so I let him go.
Never touched my rose bubble tips. Edit. Mine started small and was a matted file.
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07/18/2017, 06:34 PM | #45 |
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I hundreds upon hundreds of Aiptasia. Could be thousands.....I got one of these little guys. He annihilated all the little buggers. Once he was done, he then ate my hammer coral, a field of polyps, small toadstool leather, candy cane and neon green leather. He's in my 180 gal and haven't been able to catch him....no worries I guess...no more coral to worry about.
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07/21/2017, 09:51 PM | #46 |
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My did his job wiped all of them out. I replace him after the Copper band butterfly that passed. After that he eat whatever I feed the fish doesn't bother anything. he been with me going on 4 years. Friends asked why do I keep that ugly fish lol
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11/02/2017, 12:50 AM | #47 |
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Let's qualify these accounts - who used Captive Bred Bristle Tail Filefish, and who used Wild Caught?
Wondering if captive-bred are more reef safe than wild caught? I've all SPS and not as concerned about them as I am about my Tridacna squamosa clam. |
11/02/2017, 03:18 PM | #48 |
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ive had a few over the years, the 1 i have now is a model citizen full sps some zoas and a couple lps he touches nothing, the last 1 i had however aquired a taste for blastos and comletely decimated my blasto garden
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11/02/2017, 03:56 PM | #49 |
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From what i read or seen, some eventually start nipping at some kind of coral, but not always. Taking the risk, i decided to get one a couple weeks ago. The ORA aiptasia eating filefish never touch aiptasia and ate most of the polyps off my home wrecker and Walt Disney acro frags. I didn't notice at first and thought they were ****ed due to water params, but then I caught him in the act. They are extremely easy to catch. Slow swimmers.
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Not: The ORA aiptasia never touch aiptasia... Lol i should have proofread before I sent. Some people have success. I didn't. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk |
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