Filefish eat mushrooms and palys?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Or are there other fish that eat mushrooms and palys (similar but bigger than zoas, Ian) like maybe another butterfly fish? Again, this is for my QT tank, not by DT.

Dogface puffer , I watched one destroy anything that lives lol including aiptasia mojanoes pallys and red mushrooms all chewed to the rock

[dino]

My puffer ate all my green hair algae

[Borderjumper]

My filefish eat leathers.. No clue if they would eat mushrooms

[rishu_pepper]

I'll be your "filefish" and take all your mushrooms

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

I'll be your "filefish" and take all your mushrooms

You can have them, if you can tell me how to get them off of my live rocks. And are you sure you know what you would be getting into with these down the road?

[janalta]

It sounds like it's hit and miss, but I had a filefish for a month and it ate every last zoa polyp in my tank.
Didn't touch the mushrooms though.
I did however have two peppermint shrimp devour an entire colony of hairy mushrooms a few years ago

[Reef Pilot]

I resorted to manual removal with some palys, and that seems to work. But not with mushrooms, they just shrink up inside the rock and pop out again a day or two later. I am also trying Aiptasia X on some mushrooms. They do seem to disappear again. But will they return (like the aiptasia does after a few days). What a scourge these things are (to my SPS)!...

My next step might be to remove the rock and try chisel them out (getting really desperate now)...

[Reef Pilot]

Dogface puffer sounds interesting. I understand they eat a lot, period... And probably grow fast, too. This is for a 33g QT tank, and would never put one in my DT. And his time, and duty, would probably be fairly temporary, too. The reason I was hoping for a filefish is that they are in some demand as aiptasia eaters, and should be easy to pass off to someone else.