Beautiful!Just wanted hear from anyone that have aptasia eating file fish what different colours tou have your aptasia file display.mine goes from a olive green colour to yellow that looks like he has been spray painted with a lace pattern .Tonight he was black with cobalt blue streeks and spots.excuse the poor picture but I think you will get the idea of the cobalt blue stripes and spots.
Mine used to do that at the beginning,think it was stress related from being very small and getting beaten up by the six line wrasse.But 5 months later he is at least 5 times the size he was because steals all the food and kills everything,he eats most of the aptasia as well only have three or four large aptasia in a 150 gallon that I can see.Perhaps his too big to get to them. When he came in he was about 3 cm long by 2 cm high now he is about 15 cm long by 12 high. Doesn't surf the glass at all.
I know I’m late to the party, but I wanted to share my monster of a filefish…I actually think it’s a panhandle filefish, but not sure. It was sold to me as an Aiptasia eating filefish, but I started doing a little research when it got so big. Thats the side pain of a standard Aqueon 75 gallon, for scale. I’m estimating he’s about 7-8” long, and is def the boss of the tank. Very well behaved overall though. I’ve had him about 3 years now.
I really liked mine, until he ate all of the aptasia and decided acans were just as good.Just wanted hear from anyone that have aptasia eating file fish what different colours tou have your aptasia file display.mine goes from a olive green colour to yellow that looks like he has been spray painted with a lace pattern .Tonight he was black with cobalt blue streeks and spots.excuse the poor picture but I think you will get the idea of the cobalt blue stripes and spots.
