Filefish Sucking On Polyps? wtf

[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.

[Baldy]

Mine was in my tank for 2 months before he touched any aiptasia, then absolutely decimated my infestation (to use the word lightly). i noticed him bite a couple zoa polyps on a receding colony, and bug some kenya trees a bit. I am tossing the idea around about trading him in, just scared of the aiptasia returning

[Earthgirl]

Loved loved my file fish
Till one day, zoas gone. The next day he decided that the torch had to go
While picking on the hammer
He went to my mother in law tank
Ate all her apistasia
Came back to mine
Killed the other half of the torch (you'd think I'd learn)
He went to red coral
Yeah.... Lovely but evil once there is no anemones

[Cal_stir]

mine eats zoas

[paddyob]

Last I heard, a good chunk of aptasia eating fish have been known to eat coral. You are Not the first one to say this.

Good luck.