Got Aiptasia? Check out our Aiptasia eating filefish chowing down!

[Biota_Marine]

Hey Y'all

We know hobbyists want Matted filefish that eat already Aiptasia, so we feed our matted filefish aiptasia and hydroids weekly so they can recognize them in your tanks. Check out the GoPro video below. If you have a huge Aiptasia problem I recommend a few of these guys with our peppermint shrimp to finish up the job.



You can get them directly from our site below:

Aiptasia Eating Filefish

Acreichthys tomentosus-Matted filefish are an incredibly helpful species of filefish. They can also be called the Aiptasia- eating filefish because of their propensity to eat the nuisance anemones commonly found in the aquarium trade like aiptasia, mojanos, and hydroids. These interesting little...

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[Midrats]

I'm interested but are my LPS and Acros doomed once it finishes off the Aiptasia?

 

[Biota_Marine]

That's more on a fish by fish basis, they've never seen or tasted corals so it depends. We've had model citizens over the years in tanks at our offices and still do but most recently we had to grab one out of our 300G for picking on our poccilapora. The good thing is they're very easy to catch compared to other fish and we didn't have to move any of the rockwork.

They also get fed tons of prepared diets on top of the aiptasia so they're super easy to keep when they've done their task.

 

[Midrats]

It can eat my poccilapora if it wants to, the things a weed . Its subzero here in Wisconsin right now. I will place an order when the mercury rises.

 

[Coling]

Do you think they will eat majonos as well?

 

[Biota_Marine]

Do you think they will eat majonos as well?

Unfortunately, I can't give an accurate answer on that. We've done our best to keep majanos out of our facility because they are very annoying to get rid of. But Aiptasia and hydroids they do very well at.

 

[footgal]

On your website, it lists the peppermint shrimp feed on pellet and aptasia. Are you feeding them aptasia, and would that guarantee them feeding on the aptasia in my tank?

 

[Biota_Marine]

On your website, it lists the peppermint shrimp feed on pellet and aptasia. Are you feeding them aptasia, and would that guarantee them feeding on the aptasia in my tank?

We also throw rocks and corals with aiptasia on them in the tank with the peppermint shrimp. They do a great job cleaning them up but we noticed they mostly go after the smaller aiptasia. They also do most of their work at night as well.

I think the best way to tackle a huge aiptasia problem is a combination of matted filefish and peppermint shrimp or high powered laser (with proper eye protection) and peppermints.

 

[zoous]

Does the radial filefish eat aptasia as well?

 

[Biota_Marine]

Does the radial filefish eat aptasia as well?

They don't eat aiptasia but they're more reef safe and absolutely adorable with their dwarf sizing.

 

[zoous]

They don't eat aiptasia but they're more reef safe and absolutely adorable with their dwarf sizing.

Does the aptasia eating filefish get along with the radial filefish?

 

[Biota_Marine]

We don't keep them together here but about 6 months ago I had a customer try it in their 40 Gallon and she said they get along perfectly. I think it helps that they were added at the same time and she does have good amount of rockwork in the tank.

 

[Markxc]

Hey Y'all

We know hobbyists want Matted filefish that eat already Aiptasia, so we feed our matted filefish aiptasia and hydroids weekly so they can recognize them in your tanks. Check out the GoPro video below. If you have a huge Aiptasia problem I recommend a few of these guys with our peppermint shrimp to finish up the job.



You can get them directly from our site below:

Aiptasia Eating Filefish

Acreichthys tomentosus-Matted filefish are an incredibly helpful species of filefish. They can also be called the Aiptasia- eating filefish because of their propensity to eat the nuisance anemones commonly found in the aquarium trade like aiptasia, mojanos, and hydroids. These interesting little...

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What kind of hydroids do you feed them?

 

[Biota_Marine]

What kind of hydroids do you feed them?

There's a few naturally occurring hydroids that pop up in our systems either stemming from our natural seawater use years ago or when we feed out artemia (maybe piggy backing from cysts) but they're relatively small, fast growing hydroids.

We have a small tank filled with liverock that's circulating in the system and once some rocks are covered they go right into the filefish tanks and are spotless within a few hours.

 

[cweye2005]

Two questions re: Filefish
1. Is a 16 gal Biocube tank too small?
2. Any comparability issues with Clownfish?
Thanks!

 

[GlassMunky]

We also throw rocks and corals with aiptasia on them in the tank with the peppermint shrimp. They do a great job cleaning them up but we noticed they mostly go after the smaller aiptasia. They also do most of their work at night as well.

I think the best way to tackle a huge aiptasia problem is a combination of matted filefish and peppermint shrimp or high powered laser (with proper eye protection) and peppermints.

I’ve got an INFESTATION of aiptasia in my 210G tank.... I’ve tried a laser, 25 nudibranchs, countless bottles of F-Aiptasia and nothing has worked so far. There’s probably a thousand of them, no exaggeration, the rocks look fuzzy and some are quite large, almost the size of euphyllia heads.
Do you think a combo of the shrimp and filefish would do any good in this situation?
Or am I just a lost cause LOL

 

[MW319]

I’ve got an INFESTATION of aiptasia in my 210G tank.... I’ve tried a laser, 25 nudibranchs, countless bottles of F-Aiptasia and nothing has worked so far. There’s probably a thousand of them, no exaggeration, the rocks look fuzzy and some are quite large, almost the size of euphyllia heads.
Do you think a combo of the shrimp and filefish would do any good in this situation?
Or am I just a lost cause LOL

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Do they ever get territorial towards one another? I have a single file fish that been in the tank for a few years, dang thing never touched a single aiptasia but id consider getting 1 or 2 small ones from you since theyre raised on eating aiptasia

 

[GlassMunky]

.....yea.... everything we try seems to either do nothing (nudibranchs) or make them worse (F-Aiptasia and Aiptasia-X)
And we’ve held off on the shrimp since sometimes they eat LPS but at this point if we don’t do something I’ll end up tearing down the tank

 

[TheDragonsReef]

.....yea.... everything we try seems to either do nothing (nudibranchs) or make them worse (F-Aiptasia and Aiptasia-X)
And we’ve held off on the shrimp since sometimes they eat LPS but at this point if we don’t do something I’ll end up tearing down the tank

Im in the same boat. Anywhere theres not coral theres aiptasia in my 265g. Population has got to be over 1000. Tried nudis twice but i think my wrasses got them, tried peppermint shrimp, ate coral immediately so i had to take it out, copperband butterfly ate a few when i got it but he quickly switched to only eating frozen and never touched them after, file fish went striaght to frozen, never touched them. Not even going to bother with chemicals or killing individuals cause the population will never get dented and theyll just grow back quick.