Should I use my 56 zoa colonies as food?

[Delphinus]

Levi, I gave up on manual control of aiptasia and majano long ago. I did a raccoon butterfly for a little while, he massacred the aiptasia but didn't touch majano much .. and unfortunately had developed a taste for LPS before I lost him to my mysterious tank hiccup last September.

I have had now two matted filefish, the first one did eventually develop a taste for aiptasia but it took a while - he never touched anything else in that tank he was in (zoanthids and LPS, including Acan's). However I lost him to jumping.

I'm on my second matted filefish now, he is not touching the Acan's or the zoanthids or the other corals in that tank, although also isn't doing a whole heck of a lot against the aiptasia in that tank.

In my cube tank I have two C. ulietensis butterflies (common names "double-saddled" or "false falcula"), in their tank they have DESTROYED both majano and aiptasia (I got them because they have a reputation for majano control). However after only a month or so they started indiscriminately eating other things - LPS, SPS, gorgonians. About the only thing that they haven't really shown an interest in is clams. They seem to find tentacles irresistable - so anything with polyp extension or feeder tentacles is really what they'll pick at.

If it's just aiptasia you're dealing with, maybe you could consider a copperbanded. I had one for 3 years. This is a tricky recommendation because CBB's currently have an abhorrent track record in captivity and many people are recommending that they be left in the ocean. Mine took a while to develop a taste for aiptasia but once he did, he destroyed any he could find (my favourite trick was dangling a rock in the tank with my hand and letting him de-aiptasia it). He never did develop a taste for majano though. And he did pick at things like blasto and Acans, wasn't too bad at first but after a while I couldn't keep them anymore.

I'm thinking your best bet is the matted filefish (and patience, since they don't always seem to go after the aiptasia at first).