Aiptasia Control

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by chewie

Has anyone used a file fish and to what result?

ive had 2 that worked like a charm, i had one an adult in a 110g and he only ate aiptasia and mysis.the other i had was a juvie and he was in a 33g zoa tank with 80 different kinds of zoas and about 300 adult aiptasia and countless tiny babies...no zoas would open at all...it was a plague for sure. the juvie filefish ate it and cleaned out every head in just over a week or so , but he did pick on my candycanes and ate a small nuclear death frag( i held a grudge for that)

[monocus]

yes amphipods will eat the eggs,but only if there isn't another available food source.the eggs hatch in 10 days so you could be looking at the eggs around hatching