Filefish Sucking On Polyps? wtf
 

I just witnessed my 2" filefish sucking on one of my sps corals polyps for about 30 seconds...? He just sat there with the polyp in his mouth...

I will check in a while and see if there is any damage, he is well fed.

Anyone see this behavior before? Should I sell the poor little guy?

Here is a picture of the type of coral he was sucking on..(thanks for the pic Wayne)

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/t...ES/polyp-1.jpg

I've heard about it. I just added one last week, took one nip at the closest SPS and never went back.

Ive had him for 2 months and haven't seen him do this, but I haven't really been watching him either.

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

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

What species is it ??

Brownish greeny spikey guys..:)

Acreichthys tomentosus

Matted Filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus)

Odd....

Perhaps he was reverting to child like ways :razz:

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