aptasia eating filefish
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Topic: aptasia eating filefish
Posted By: chuckfu
Subject: aptasia eating filefish
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 6:24pm
Experience with these? I have some aptasia I need cleaned up. Ive tried everything, berghias, shrimp, kalk, glue. I have softies, sps, maxi mini anemone, sexy shrimp. Whats the chances of him bothering any of these? I have someone coming over Saturday to laser some but I dont think we will be able to get them all. Thx in advance.
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Try, try, try, then give up!
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Posted By: H200
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 7:02pm
they work great!
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210 gallon glass aquarium
90 gal Refuge.
900Gal Pond
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Posted By: chuckfu
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:11pm
Bump. Looking for some personal experiences with these fish and shrimp, softies, LPS and SPS.
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Try, try, try, then give up!
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Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 1:17pm
Mine was in my tank about two weeks, never touched an aptasia and then decided to take a liking to my acans!
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Jackie Stuver
"wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart
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Posted By: Shad
Date Posted: March 20 2013 at 1:52pm
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Had one for a while.. Did a pretty good job with all the visible aptasia.. When he ran out of easy to reach stuff, he started going for my Acans as well. Tank is now back to tons of aptasia because he just didn't get it all.
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Posted By: Hmclaughlin17
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 9:58pm
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I did one of these guys and a copperbanded butterfly in my 130 reef. I make sure to feed everyone well and they have not gone after my softies. Good luck!
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Posted By: Jesterrace
Date Posted: April 23 2018 at 9:17am
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The Matte Fish (Matted Filefish) is considered the best aiptasia destroyer out there, they might nip at your corals but if you keep it well fed it should be fine.
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Posted By: Wrogers
Date Posted: April 23 2018 at 7:45pm
one of my fist fish was a File-fish. He like the taste of coral. He had to go.. Maybe you will get lucky. For me the $20.00 dollar fish was not worth the $300.00 Coral he ate. That is just my take on it..laser will work just don't give up.
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William Rogers
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