orangespot filefish

[watson_barrett]

anyone have any experience with this fish.

specifically keeping one in a SPS dominated tank...wondering how long it takes to weed them off of eating acro polyps or if it is too much of a risk...???

[rort]

lol these guys are pretty hard to keep from what im told. I believe their diet completely consists of corals. You have to slowly ween then off of that, and onto pellets or frozen.

"Umm... Fish?"'s thread talks about how he is keeping a pair of them alive and that he has not fed them coral in a few months. He is also getting them to successfully mate i believe.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=15329889#post15329889

I am sure he would know a lot more about the subject. But I know they are not something to just try and see what happens. Pretty sure they can wipe out your coral collection.