{"id":663,"date":"2014-03-21T00:03:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T04:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=663"},"modified":"2015-02-22T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T17:05:28","slug":"matted-filefish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/03\/21\/matted-filefish\/","title":{"rendered":"Matted Filefish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matted filefish are not the most beautiful fish one can keep in a reef tank, but they do in fact eat <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/10\/aiptasia\/\" title=\"Aiptasia\">aiptasia<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_662\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-662\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a matted filefish.\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-662\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish.jpg 625w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matted filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Matted filefish have a kind of camouflage coloration, and they usually swim with a tilted body position, just like in the pictures. Always looking for food.<\/p>\n<p>Filefish do eat aiptasia, but they also might nip corals, and eat various worms, including <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/18\/feather-duster-worms\/\" title=\"Feather Duster Worms\">feather dusters<\/a>, although perhaps not as much as <a href=\"\/2015\/02\/22\/copperband-butterflyfish\/\" title=\"Copperband Butterflyfish\">copperband butterflyfish<\/a> would do.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish3.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a matted filefish and its reflection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish3.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Matted-FileFish3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matted filefish (<em>Acreichthys tomentosus<\/em>) and its reflection in the aquarium glass.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In captivity matted filefish should be fed chunks of various seafood &#8212; I like to feed my fish mussels from a grocery store, just freeze them first for a few days and thaw them before feeding.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reefkeeping.com\/joomla\/index.php\/current-issue\/article\/79-fish-profile\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reefkeeping Magazine - Fish Profile\">Reefkeeping Magazine &#8211; Fish Profile<\/a>.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matted filefish are not the most beautiful fish one can keep in a reef tank, but they do in fact eat aiptasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,20,18,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}