aiptasia help

[brand]

looking for someone who has coral safe fish to eat my aiptasia or other animal .


Rental fee or purchase no problem just had a file fish and it started eating corals so had to take out..


cooper band butterfly also tried and was working till it died ??? don't know why


I have a beautiful tank but aiptasia is getting out of control


aiptasia x also used grows back


kalkwasser I killed some nice corals lol don't want to do that again


rather go with animal than chemical


going to get another copperband in morning but looking for ideas ..or help


removing rock to many corals on rocks pass on that also ..peppermint shrimp eaten up by my other coral banded shrimp ..


lots of beers for help lol


my buddy will make wise crack of course wont say names Noel


:help:

 

[Jlavine]

Stop all flow for a few hours and hit them with aptasia x. Go overboard on the amount you use. Then add a dozen large peppermint shrimp. The ones I got from pop corals mowed down all my aptasia and I haven't seen one since.

Use the aptasia x for a few days in a row as you see new ones that were hiding or didn't die yet.

 

[ming]

without zoas or tube worms, you can try a filefish

copperbands usually die because they are hard to wean onto other foods, so they starve to death

 

[brand]

The copperband was eating mysis thats the strange part. And aiptasia

 

[brand]

Thanks for ideas

 

[Aquadicted]

hm... maybe i should start renting working fish..

 

[Hockeynut]

You don't need any chemicals. Get yourself a couple different size syringes so you can get in most area of the tank. Boil some fresh ro water and work quickly blast them with the boiling water when they retreat into there hole. If the water cools even a little put it back on the stove and boil it again.
I have been using this method for a long time and it really works.

 

[mtxguy8]

Hey Brand the cooper band die because of starvation. mine ate at the LPS when i bought it but when home didn't wanna touch the brine shrimps they used to eat at the LFS. what i did was went and bought live black worms and he starting eating a lot more. remember in the wild coopperband butterfly only eat micro stuff from rocks, live worms,clams and i believe scallops. i was feeding mine frozen worms but he just eat one or two and that was it. they need and like their prey alive. onces he saw blackwork moving he went feeding frenzy. when i used to breed half-moon better fish black worms was my choice for conditioning the fish. now my coopperband is hardy and healthy enough and he eats a few o other frozen food

 

[arnaldolex]

a good trick I learned for using the kalk is after you inject them the little bit that fall on the surrounding corals use a turkey baster and blow it of that's what I have been doing and honestly it works great and ive had no coral deaths I notice that being a problem on my polyps when some kalk would fall on them try it out

 

[brand]

Yes rent away with deposit aquadicted

 

[Nandez13]

Then add a dozen large peppermint shrimp.

I think that's a little excessive. I added 2 to my 75 gallon and they got rid of my aiptasia.

 

[brand]

Going to hot reef lets see what we get

 

[BKLYNREEF123]

I have had good success with feeding my copperband frozen clam. When I first got him it took awhile for him to accept food. Try soaking the food with garlic. This seemed to get mine eating. I don't think mysis is nutritious enough to support them. I see no aptasia in my DT since I added the copperband and he has not picked on any acans or other LPS.

 

[brand]

Put in 6 peppermints lets see

 

[brand]

Copperband didn't look healthy so went with shrimp

 

[karenvas3]

The boiling water method works. As Rob said, boil ro water and use a syringe. It worked well. There is a YouTube video on this.

 

[Jazeel55]

File fish does a great job until they turn on coral. I had the same problem. Had file fish for 2 years now it's turn on coral