Filefish Sucking On Polyps? wtf

[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.

[dreef]

In the wild they bite onto acorporas at nite to hold themselves in the flow,while they sleep.Frank my file fish has NEVER ever touched any sps in my tank...duncans is a different story,they must look like giant apatisia to him. Lol

http://marine-engineers.org/tag/acropora/page/2/

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by dreef

In the wild they bite onto acorporas at nite to hold themselves in the flow,while they sleep.Frank my file fish has NEVER ever touched any sps in my tank...duncans is a different story,they must look like giant apatisia to him. Lol

yup and this is the reason they dont mix with carpet anemones also juvies are more nippy in my experience with them:P but polyps are polyps to a file

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by dreef

In the wild they bite onto acorporas at nite to hold themselves in the flow,while they sleep.Frank my file fish has NEVER ever touched any sps in my tank...duncans is a different story,they must look like giant apatisia to him. Lol

http://marine-engineers.org/tag/acropora/page/2/

+1 I've seen this do this on a number night dives. It was just resting. Neat to see that behavior in a tank!

[Cade]

Well now I almost feel privlaged.

[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