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steveb

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You know if you leave your prized coral in a bucket of saltwater a couple of days it likely is going to suffer or be toast.

Not aptasia oh no. They just keep on going. My prediction is after the nuclear Holocaust two things will remain, roaches on land and aptasia in the oceans.

These have been in this bucket for a week.

Absolutely no worse for it...

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"I hate Aiptasia" may be the least controversial statement ever made in reefing.

Perhaps if you replace the saltwater with a mixture of gasoline and muriatic acid and put them in complete darkness, maybe, just maybe in a week they will look a little weaker. Maybe throw some uranium pellets in for good measure. On the other hand, the uranium might make them mutate into glowing super-aiptasia.
 
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"I hate Aiptasia" may be the least controversial statement ever made in reefing.

Perhaps if you replace the saltwater with a mixture of gasoline and muriatic acid and put them in complete darkness, maybe, just maybe in a week they will look a little weaker. Maybe throw some uranium pellets in for good measure. On the other hand, the uranium might make them mutate into glowing super-aiptasia.

Then everyone would want them...
 

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Seems my 280 bucks for 13 berghia didn't pay off either.
 

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a CBB + Filefish + epoxy has mostly eliminated them from my tank.

Still have a few in hard to reach places and in my over flow, but I can live with them not being in sight constantly.
 

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Seems my 280 bucks for 13 berghia didn't pay off either.
I put mine in and 4 weeks into it, I was like WTF. That next week everytime I looked at the tank, they were disappearing. Couple of weeks into it, they were gone.
 

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I have not seen aiptasia in my tank for many years. I killed a few off with iodine in a syringe over 5 years ago.
 

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Seems my 280 bucks for 13 berghia didn't pay off either.
They take a very long time. Last time I used them it took a year for their reproduction rate to get faster than the aptasia, then they wiped it out overnight.

I think it was like a month or two for them to get to reproductive age, then they have to find eachother, then eggs have to survive the other critters in the tank, then the baby berghia need to find baby aptasia....
 

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They take a very long time. Last time I used them it took a year for their reproduction rate to get faster than the aptasia, then they wiped it out overnight.

I think it was like a month or two for them to get to reproductive age, then they have to find eachother, then eggs have to survive the other critters in the tank, then the baby berghia need to find baby aptasia....

Do you have any wrasse. That’s my downfall is I think my leopards would have a nice steak dinner


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My Copperband Butterfly and 2 peppermint shrimp annihilated all of my Apstasia in my Apstasia dedicated Cloning Tank in about a week. Now my tank is just back to being a regular old mixed reef tank with a Green Hair Algae outbreak. Life is getting better.
 

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Timely post.

im eagerly awaiting my F Aptasia from DFW to nuke these bastards. Maybe the filefish was working?
 

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"I hate Aiptasia" may be the least controversial statement ever made in reefing.

Perhaps if you replace the saltwater with a mixture of gasoline and muriatic acid and put them in complete darkness, maybe, just maybe in a week they will look a little weaker. Maybe throw some uranium pellets in for good measure. On the other hand, the uranium might make them mutate into glowing super-aiptasia.
Frank, stop stealing my advice! Haha
 

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Been lucky got the peppermints at unlimited color corals during their massacre sale. They havent bothered anything but cleaned up any aiptasia I did have. I keep my tank well fed.
 
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