sea grass filefish

[spoot]

I got 2 peppermints and they cleared out all the aiptasia from my rock. Have not had any grow back ever since.

[Johnny Reefer]

Don't know about Seagrass Filefish, but I bought two Tasseled Filefish (Chaetoderma pencilligera) on the suggestion from my LFS that they might eat Aiptasia, based on reports from European reefers. They didn't. But it's all good. They are cool fish regardless, and two of my favourites. And I managed to get the Aiptasia under control by zapping them with Kalkwasser; scrubbing the rock; and introducing a small army of Peppermint shrimp (about 12 in a 180g). Haven't seen one Aiptasia in a long time.

[reeferious]

thanx everyone for your inputs. i do have 6 peppermints in my tank and i think they are chewing up smaller aiptasias but not touching the few larger ones: however i'm seeing a mojano population explosion and i swear every couple days i see them doubling in number and i don't believe cbb or peppermints touch these S.O.B.s. i'm not in the mood to try inject everyone of these again and watch them come back in no time. my last resort might be these filefish and hope they first go for these mojanos with me ready to plunk them out into sump once they more or less go through these mojanos. i'm at my wit's end.

[tang daddy]

A friend of mine once had a big majano problem but I think with 3 guys on full time scrubbing rocks and whatever else they did it's now M free.