My filefish ate aptasia left sps and zoas alone but loves LPS. Unfortunately I've been overfeeding the tank he's in (to make sure the other fish, not just the cowfish, get food) and it seems he's stopped eating the aptasia :twised:

Is it kinda blue with yellow dots?

Here was fence 1:

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/404/trap1.jpg

I then proceeded to split that compartment with another fence (he was hiding in the rear rock pile) and as I was zip tying the inner fence (no pic due to rage meltdown) he slipped between a gap at the front of fence 1! I tried scaring him away when he was nearing it and the bugger calmly swam past. He was nipping my smooth skinned acro before I had fence 1 removed. Broke a few corals along the way :twised:

Fence 2 on other side:

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/404/trap2.jpg

Fence 2b:

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/404/trap3.jpg

Got him on the back half of this partition but he slipped into the front half after all was zip-tied. Took ages to dismantle the inner fence and lift it and scare him back to the much simpler (coral and rock) side.

I spent 5 hours removing colonies/towers and breaking stuff for a 1" fish. I had heard he was a risk to my LPS perhaps and I decided it was worth the risk. In the end he nipped my gorgs and SPS (when he really got into it we're talking a nip every 2 seconds!)

I re-learned I don't have a lot of patience. LESSON LEARNED!

Ouch! Sorry to hear that Brett. I too have learned that if they say "risky" I should be saying "no thank you" as Murphy's Law always uses me as it's poster child.

Did you get him out or just trapped?

love the hair algae.

Ugh that sucks. Makes me glad my filefish worked out (or at least I think he has, he's done his job eating all the majanos and aiptasia anyways).

Yes I was able to get him out.

Yeah still growing well but only on my new rock. Thanks for the rock again =)

I feel for you, we went through the same issue with our filefish but at least he was easy to catch.

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/y...3/IMG_2039.jpg

:lol:

Wow that sounds like it was a PITA to try to catch him. I got lucky with my filefish and was able to catch him fairly easily in my 230g