aiptasia suggestions.

[brand]

i need something reef safe that will eat the aiptasia clean ..have some growing , think from some rock a friend gave to me lol ..

anyway bought a peppermint shrimp but don't trust him he likes sitting on frag rack ... trying to catch and throw in sump ..

i did aiptasia x stuff but to messy and my tank is deep plus stand is high..so pain in _____.

plus dont like chemicals in water ..ive heard it can kill your corals .. i remember dubs said it did damage for him.

nudi branch ??? not sure what s your experience . my tank is clean this is bothering me ......very much ....where di get nudi branch ?? max reef is closet place for me..

 

[duke62]

peppermint shrimp in my expierence wont eat your corals unless you got a shrimp that looks very similar called the camel shrimp. They will however clean the living daylights out of new corals which is why i am going to get 2 more when i set up a QT for my acros. I put 2 in my frag tank many months ago and they took care of all the aiptasia in there in days

 

[brand]

Here is the possible camel or peppermint..see where he is on my frag rack lol..






































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[brand]

What's it look like duke. Give me the bad news first. Lol good news if any.

 

[brand]

I noticed a a can tgat looks like someone was nibbling it that's why concerned.

I've been trying ti feed the auptasia so tge shrimp goes for food and hopefully eats the auptasia also but no luck yet.. maybe if catch can train it there.. he is to fast going to try the bottle trick Sunday.

 

[brand]

bergia nudibranch wanted ASAP

if anyone has i will buy . westchester bronx area . is fine.

 

[duke62]

Berghia nudibranches will work if you know how to use them. Just getting them in throwing them in probably wont work. What i was told is to get them to breed in a seperate tank then use the babies to eat your DT aiptasia. I didnt want to go through that pain so my DT got a copperband which is almost 2 years old and the shrimp went into the frag tank

 

[edd]

Berghia nudibranches will work if you know how to use them. Just getting them in throwing them in probably wont work. What i was told is to get them to breed in a seperate tank then use the babies to eat your DT aiptasia. I didnt want to go through that pain so my DT got a copperband which is almost 2 years old and the shrimp went into the frag tank

+1 on the copper band, i had aptasia until i put him in dt and haven't seen any since.

 

[brand]

Copper band will eat my corals I think..

 

[duke62]

had my copperband for 2 years never touched my corals. It needs a large tank and a established tank or it will die fast. Not a good option if you are a beginner

 

[duromega]

had my copperband for 2 years never touched my corals. It needs a large tank and a established tank or it will die fast. Not a good option if you are a beginner

1+ my copperband never touched my corals
just killed my feather duster lol

 

[agold11520]

i need something reef safe that will eat the aiptasia clean ..have some growing , think from some rock a friend gave to me lol ..

anyway bought a peppermint shrimp but don't trust him he likes sitting on frag rack ... trying to catch and throw in sump ..

i did aiptasia x stuff but to messy and my tank is deep plus stand is high..so pain in _____.

plus dont like chemicals in water ..ive heard it can kill your corals .. i remember dubs said it did damage for him.

nudi branch ??? not sure what s your experience . my tank is clean this is bothering me ......very much ....where di get nudi branch ?? max reef is closet place for me..

Get an aptasia eating filefish. Aptasia will be gone fast

 

[brand]

Member has offered to lend the file fish but I have seen them eat zoa...???? aiptasia predicament has be scratching my head..

 

[duke62]

Well no matter what fish you get you will have to keep it in the tank for several months. It may look like it ate them all but they will be in your overflows,pipes and anywhere else in your tank. And once the fish or shrimp or nudi is gone they will start to re appear once again

 

[homegrowncichlid]

Just get the peppermint shrimps. They only live for a few months in my tank ( seem to eat each other during molting if they are not well fed). I usually dump 4 or 6 in every year. Aside from the camel shrimps which are easy to spot, there are 2 species of similar looking pepperments, one from the carribean, which is what you're after, and one from the west coast, which is not reef safe. L. wurdemanni vs Lysmata californica.

 

[brand]

I did have two of them brand new they nit eating.

And they hanging out by frag rack..

 

[brand]

I do have two new peppermint shrimp already.....typo again lol

 

[Ariel110G]

My Copperband took care of it for me, cool fish to have I love him.