orange spot file fish

greenghs · 10-23-2006, 04:21 PM

does anyone know anything about this fish.Is it reef safe?help

David Grigor · 10-23-2006, 04:47 PM

I have never considered keeping one.

They are typical referred to as "hard to keep" and "leave them in the ocean".

Pretty known for eating polyps so definately not considered reef safe. However, if your colonies are large enough perhaps won't do enough damage to kill the coral. I personally would not be one to try.

If I'm not mistaken Stan "Energy" has one or has had one but then again not everyone has a tank as large as Stan to house a fish where corals are so large/mature that likely not cause too much damage.

ZEKESTER · 10-23-2006, 06:00 PM

If you can get one to eat prepared food you are one lucky reefer

capman · 10-23-2006, 06:15 PM

Following up on what David said....

Stan's tank is 1700 gallons I think (yes, that is the correct number of zeros), with lots and lots of SPS corals, so his filefish can eat all the coral it wants and you would probably not be able to tell it had been eating them.

spazz · 10-23-2006, 07:00 PM

energy took his file fish out of the 1700g tank because it was eating too many coral pylops. all his sps corals dont show PE any more. his file fish is in the fuge now. it dose eat prepared food though.

greenghs · 10-23-2006, 08:15 PM

mine is eating brine shrimp and flake food.he seems to be getting alittle on the fat side .i would love to have him in my reef tank but i guess that is not a good idea.it is only a 55 thanks for the info