Besides a syringe, what is best for larger glass nems? I feel like a small - 1-2 inch - filefish will be easily overwhelmed. Never used berghias but peps have generally worked well... What's your favorite method/predator?
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F Aptasia works wonders
That’s essentially the syringe... the aiptasia is intermingled with coral polyps and I don’t think FAiptasia is very easy to use in that situation. Have you successfully used any natural predators? Like I said, I’ve used peppermint shrimp but wonder if there’s a better option.
Thanks though
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Nudi work great if you have no wrasses
I used to raise berghias..... by far the best method for true eradication. But you can't have predators. The get deep inside the rocks where shrimp and fish can't get. Plus underside.
Has anyone tried the magic wand before (laser) ? Heard it works well but never tried it
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Berghia is the way. F aptaisia is like squirting kalk Paste and trying to bury the apt. The aptasia x is sort of the same just a little more exact. The more important point is that the berghia don’t trigger a reproductive response.
When aiptasia get pissed off they spawn..
I do have a six line. But, this is a potential work in progress and I likely won't be putting any of the "new" rocks that have aiptasia in my current display... Probably try to have an aiptasia cleaning tank and stick some predators in there. I do have aiptasia-x and have no problem using it, but this is from a somewhat neglected tank.
More to come. Thanks for all the input!
Problem is I want to order berghia but can't find any.
Yeah, I found an itty bitty filefish at Fish Gallery but I doubt he'd make much of a dent, lol
I found F Aiptasia only works under the most ideal conditions. Several times I thought it worked, only to find the Aiptasia found a way out of its tomb three weeks later.
Berghia are the best way in my experience. Just be prepared that it may take weeks or months before you see results. I put 20 of them in my 294, and even with a leopard and fairy wrasse, they did the job. I found several of them in the filter sock several weeks ago, so moved those to my 150, and I saw a big one eating the last known Aiptasia in there last night. Unfortunately, the other day I saw several very tiny Aiptasia in the 294, so I'm hoping I can get at least one Berghia back from the 150.
Berghia are the best way in my experience. Just be prepared that it may take weeks or months before you see results. I put 20 of them in my 294, and even with a leopard and fairy wrasse, they did the job. I found several of them in the filter sock several weeks ago, so moved those to my 150, and I saw a big one eating the last known Aiptasia in there last night. Unfortunately, the other day I saw several very tiny Aiptasia in the 294, so I'm hoping I can get at least one Berghia back from the 150.
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Check with @Galactic Coral
My expereinces:
- F-Aiptasia works, but tracking down every Aiptasia is nearly impossible.
- Copper Banded Butterfly - Works, but even though I had two that ate frozen mysis they weren't aggressive enough to survive in the tank.
- Berghia Nudibranch - Never had success with them (no wrasse at the time). They'd eat one or two and then just die off.
- Peppermint Shrimp - Work, but you have to "starve" them to eat it. (I QT'd my fish and left peppermint in the tank for the fallow time and they have eaten all the Aiptasia. I am now a year later and still have not found a single one.)
- Aiptasia-X - Makes the Aiptasia population explode. Works horribly. "Kills" the one you put it on, but 10 will spawn a few days later around the original.
All that but the berghia worked perfectly for me just takes time. I put them in and for literally weeks... nothing happened. I was like “great, reefing is sort of like driving down the highway and throwing wadded $100 bills out of the moving car window.”
but after the initial 2-3 weeks all of my aptaisia disappeared in the matter of a week.
No matter how careful you are, at the very least you will always be dealing with aptasia, vermitids. They come in on everything especially cuc additions. So it’s a thing you just have to address every once in a while.
but after the initial 2-3 weeks all of my aptaisia disappeared in the matter of a week.
No matter how careful you are, at the very least you will always be dealing with aptasia, vermitids. They come in on everything especially cuc additions. So it’s a thing you just have to address every once in a while.
No worries Marsh I found 25 for 400. In a month we'll be stocked with berghia in Htown.. I got plenty glass nems to keep em feed. The trick is not to allow the monster aiptasia eat the berghia!! Seen it many times. Berghia like to gang up on the big ones.
