Aiptasia Control Reef Tank

[scunfcu]

I need to look for somewhat reef-safe fish to combat aiptasia. I am debating between Matted Filefish or Copperband Butterfly.

Would filefish or butterfly nip/eat my lovely Tube Anemone and other sps/lps?

My two Peppmint shrimp doesn't eat them. Can't use Berghia Nudibranches because I have other fish in the tank that may eat them plus Korlia internal pump makes it impossible.

 

[ed51802]

The peppermint shrimp need to be from the caribean or they won't touch them. Those two fish will end up niping at your corals.

Sent from my SPH-M910 using Reefs

 

[ryangrieder]

mojano wand

 

[scunfcu]

How do I verify if peppermint comes from Caribean? Isn't there are only one type classifed as peppermint?

 

[albano]

I had very good luck with a tassled file fish, from Dom (Diamonds of the Reef), check with him.
+1 also on Carib. Pep. shrimp...you can order them from Reeftopia.com

 

[scunfcu]

albano, did the filefish eat your corals?

 

[albano]

albano, did the filefish eat your corals?

never touched corals, maybe picked at zoas (but I never saw it), plus they are such slow swimmers, you could easily net them out!

 

[ctxmonitor]

i've added a copperband to my tank and all my aiptasia was gone.. Wasn't meant as a aiptasia removal but i like the fish and that was a added bonus, hehe.p

 

[scunfcu]

Did it nip at your corals?

 

[NYreefNoob]

copperbands are 50 50 to eat it anyways, mine never has touched it plus they are hard to keep. are you able to pull the rock out ?

 

[ctxmonitor]

Did it nip at your corals?

no, it hasnt nip on anything as far as I know. But like NYreefNoob, its a 50/50.. I just got the other 50,

 

[Alex]

mojano wand

I saw this thing work at the frag swap last week and it was amazing, maybe you should give it a try.

 

[scunfcu]

I have it and is selling it. 50/50 also, got some, some are too fast.

 

[Dace]

Berghia Nudi's, Nothing like them.

 

[scunfcu]

Thanks Dace, not sure If I can go with Berghia Nudi's. I have Orchid and Bicolor Dottyback, cleaner and peppermint shrimps and power blue tang, not to mention two internal Koraila current pumps. Either my fish will eat Berghia or it'll go into my pump.

 

[Cherrycorals]

mojano wand

+1 !!!!!

 

[Cherrycorals]

I had very good luck with a tassled file fish, from Dom (Diamonds of the Reef), check with him.
+1 also on Carib. Pep. shrimp...you can order them from Reeftopia.com

Sometimes filefish will develop a taste for the insides of Acan's too. Nothing like an Acan with its guts ripped out.

 

[scunfcu]

I have the mojano wand, but Aiptasia are too fast. Maybe I'm not doing it right. Turn it on and poke it fast right(before Aiptasia has chance hide inside the rock)?

 

[grisha]

peper mint will go after LPS in my EXP

 

[tentacles]

I had a lot of success with the bristle tailed filefish. I had to remove her because she developed a taste for torch coral and clam mantles, but I haven't seen aiptasia since (this was ~10 months ago).