Aiptasia Infestation

[Anonymous]

Excellent. I am so happy for you!

I already really have too many big fish so I think a butterfly is out of the questions for me though.

 

[stubbsz]

What else does that Bad Boy eat out of a reef tank when he's done with the aiptasias?

Can you show us a better picture of the Butterfly?

Thanks
-Adrian

 

[Ricordia]

Here's a shot from when I first put him in the tank. For size comparison the tang is fully grown. As I said the butterfly is at least twice as large now. I'll try to get a new picture of him tomorrow but the tang has been moved to a different tank.

I've been told they can go after other tentacled corals (especially anemones) and some sps. The aiptasia killed off everything I had except for various mushrooms, a cabbage coral, and a small colony of button polyps. The butterfly has left all of these alone.

 

[Anonymous]

Has anyone else had this kind of success with this fish? I have seen dozens of reports that CBBs cleaned out aptasias as well, but all mine did was eat all my feather dusters and die. I don't want to make another $50 mistake like that.