Filefish Sucking On Polyps? wtf

[Borderjumper]

File fish are evil. It was sucking the soul out of your coral.

[Aquattro]

This is my 5th one, and no coral eating from any of them so far.

[FWC]

What species is it ??

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by FWC

What species is it ??

Brownish greeny spikey guys..

[Aquattro]

Acreichthys tomentosus

[Cade]

Originally Posted by FWC

What species is it ??

Matted Filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus)

[FWC]

Odd....

Perhaps he was reverting to child like ways

But in reality ,its a filefish. They just do odd things sometimes.

[Cade]

Originally Posted by FWC

Odd....

Perhaps he was reverting to child like ways

But in reality ,its a filefish. They just do odd things sometimes.

Its was weird.. he was just sitting there with the polyp in his mouth.. no chewing or movement of any kind.. just breathing. lol

and there is aiptasia in my tank he hasn't touched yet lol

Ill check tomorrow and see if the polyp looks damaged, I know which one it was.

[Cade]

Well the next day the polyp was half retracted but no damage as far as I could see. I guess Ill just keep an eye on him.

[Northvan]

Our filefish cleaned out all the aptaisia in our tank-thats why we bought him- (we called him 'tool'), and then he ate 90% of one of our fiji gold leathers in about 4 days, took us that long to see who was doing the eating....we traded him in, the eating stopped.