Aptasia eating filefish

[Hallowhead]

If you don’t mind ordering online, I recommend checking out Biota. I got my filefish from them to ensure I was getting the correct species—not something that looks similar but doesn’t touch aiptasia.

Be prepared, though—the fish will arrive tiny. I kept mine in a separate breeder box for nearly two months to let it grow enough to safely handle the flow from the powerheads. While it was in the box, I tossed in some rocks with aiptasia, and it went straight for them every time.

I may have to go this route. It's funny how when I don't need one they're everywhere now I need one and they're nowhere

 

[mike devlin]

I have one of u wanna buy it.. Tom’s river

 

[erics210]

This fish is not reef safe right?

Hit or Miss.... The one I got from my brother in law ate a thousand dollars worth of zoas before I realized he liked Zoas more than aiptasia.

 

[MadReefer]

An Aiptasia eating filefish is considered "reef safe with caution"; while they primarily eat Aiptasia, some individuals may occasionally nip at soft corals, zoanthids, or other fleshy polyps, so close monitoring is necessary when adding them to a reef tank.

 

[ericrodriguez]

I called yesterday to nyaquatics and they have copperband at 75 coming today. I’m picking up one for me as soon as I can. I’m also getting a blue cromis out probably tonight if anyone wants it. Very aggressive though

 

[mike devlin]

The filefish will eat the aip. The sometimes start to pick at corals so I normal bounce them around.. they are so easy to catch.. tank overflows fuge.. copperbands will take time to eat the aip and most often perish since it’s a relatively hard butterfly to keep..

 

[iTzJu]

I may have to go this route. It's funny how when I don't need one they're everywhere now I need one and they're nowhere

I was actually in a similar boat but reverse lol, they were out of stock at Biota but was able to find them everywhere locally when i was looking. I was adamant with going with Biota though since i wanted to make sure it was the correct species and i also did not want to QT as Biota has a reputation for keeping clean specimens. I was willing to take that risk with them.

 

[Hallowhead]

Luckily I don't have any corals yet, just some leathers. Trying to get everything settled before I start adding

 

[Hallowhead]

I got one !! AQ has one left !