Aiptasia eating filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus)[GONE]

[TexasPipefish]

I have a dime-sized Filefish. He is cleaning up, but not bothering my coral. PM me if you want him.
It is a Stephanolepis Hispidus, the planehead filefish , also known as the Sargassum Filefish. [GONE]
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[coralreefexplore]

Would you be interested in selling it?

CoralReefExplore

[Reefnub]

I would be interested in buying this guy off you. I have a sea of aptaisia.


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[aquasport24]

I would like to know how I can get one too? You catch or buy this guy?

[TexasPipefish]

PM me and we can re-home this guy. Still no cost.
I can't charge for him, because he is wild caught.

How do you catch them? Go to the beach on a day with a shoreward breeze and a rising tide to insure seaweed, then scoop up the seaweed (Sargassum) in a fine-mesh net, or a 5-gallon bucket. Approach the seaweed from below, and the little fish will stay with the weed. Then dump it out in an empty cooler with some seawater and sort it out. If you hold the Sargassum over the water in your cooler for a few seconds, then give it a brisk shake, you usually get a shower of small Sargassum Shrimp to boot.

[dsachs09]

These can be great for nipping back Xenia. I have one I bought for clearing aiptasia, which he did, then he trimmed back the he now lives in my "quarantine" tank.