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Nope just put it in a bucket with some old saltwater when I was cleaning
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I hate aptasia (1 Viewer)
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I notice an aptasia eating some bubble algae it caught.... I'm not sure how to feel about this.
I just discovered I have some in one of my little tanks 
thankfully I keep a few pep's in my fuge so I will pull them and move them over to that tank and cross my fingers it does the trick.
thankfully I keep a few pep's in my fuge so I will pull them and move them over to that tank and cross my fingers it does the trick.
My nudibrachs i don't think made it. 260 down the drain. My aiptasia are huge. Also had huge pods that could have ate them.... ughhh.. the battle continues.... 1st time they've failed and I haven't been able to breed some.
I have had mine in the tank for about 4 months now and the amount of aptasia is still increasing. I know they are there though since I can find them if I check my tank with a red light after lights out for a few days. Might take 3+days to find one, but I found one and watched it eat aptasia just a few days ago.
I would check for them before writing them off. If your aptasia is replicating faster than they eat it, it can take a long time for them to get up in numbers high enough to win the war.
I have also noticed that they seem to like the little baby aptasia while we only pay attention to the large ones. As long as you have babies I would not expect them to take out the large ones quickly.
If the ones I have now don't make a dent soon, I may rethink how I add them and instead get a 10G tank, heater, and bubbler sponge filter. Set that up as a sort of qt/breeding tank so I can make sure I add only aptasia to it, get them reproducing so I have a lot, then add the berghia so I can easily observe them to make sure they are reproducing and there are no predators thinning them. Then when I have a biblical amount, add most but not all to the display tank in one spot and add some aptasia back to the qt/breeding tank so I have some in reserve.
Every once in a while I see a lost berghia during the day.
Lucky, I still haven't seen one.Every once in a while I see a lost berghia during the day.
I think I have had mine a month or two longer than you. I just noticed a teeny baby one in an overflow.
Yeah I used to breed these regularly but I dunno about this time. May start over. They're all in 40b now with no fish/predators so ill give it a couple more weeks. If I still don't seem them I may take a sledge hammer to one of the big rocks. All the rocks are 40+lbs, so I'm hoping they're just so many aiptasia that the berghia have no need to come venture out.I think I have had mine a month or two longer than you. I just noticed a teeny baby one in an overflow.
