Filefish owners

[Docdiggy]

I picked one up today and its already eating my aiptasia. I always keep a close eye on my corals to make sure they are not closed up. How many of you have had them leave your good stuff alone?

[rgulrich]

Put mine in to the "developed an appetite for LPS" category, a bad habit it picked up from a Flame Angel. They both went to new aquariums. As with all fish, you might want to keep an eye on it.

[jkubec]

I had a mimic saddle puffer filefish and he had a ton of personality...until we wanted to check out the inside of an MP10. Not much personality after that. I had him about a year and I never noticed him nip anything but I think it is a crap shoot if/when they do. I would most likely not get another.

[Rybren]

I had a Matted Filefish. It cleaned up my aiptasia problem in a couple of weeks. Then it went after the LPS. I traded it back to the LFS.

[mcgyvr]

had mine for 2 weeks.. can't tell its done anything yet to my aiptasia population..
hasn't touched any corals yet either.. was really hoping it might like Anthelia/xenia too :)

[Crooke]

My matted filefish ate a single aiptasia before deciding it preferred acans.

[Docdiggy]

Well I hope he decides to live a nice life in my tank. If he gets out of line, back the store. I'm just so sick of aiptasia.

[Crooke]

A dozen peppermint shrimp took care of my aiptasia issue in a few weeks. I understand they're hit and miss with coral bothering too, but I've not had major issues with them as I did with the filefish.

[Docdiggy]

My problem with those is I have a flamehawk.