aiptasia

I've been battling aiptasia in my acro-dominated tank, which is just around 5 months old. I have ~a dozen sps frags, and a pair of rainbow acans. Several of the older acro frags are starting to encrust onto the rock or at least over the frag plug, and the acans have dropped several heads. The...

What's your favorite natural aiptasia eradication method?! I had one peppermint shrimp in a 75 gallon that disappeared and shortly after the aiptasia started to reappear. I'm thinking of trying a Copperband but have heard too many unsuccessful stories And I don't find the filefish to be the...

Plz help ID this! Sorry for the pic quality. Best I can do RN. The past month or so while I’ve had Covid/pneumonia, my husband has been trying to do his best keeping things alive. Major dinos and algae of all sorts… My Rose BTA was happy in never moved until he did a tank blackout for 3 days...

Just wondering if I should reset my tank or not. I’ve had a realllllly bad aiptasia outbreak, as in every visible piece of rock work, the overflow etc anll have aiptasia on it. I have tried filefish which worked some what for a while until it went after LPS. Tried berghia nudibranch for several...

Hey everyone, I hope everyone is doing well and your reef is thriving. So my question is has anyone ever seen/noticed aiptasia move? Or when they are in the spot they are in that is where they will remain?

1/4"-1/2" Berghias available. $10ea

Hey all! Looking for some advice here as I haven't really found consistent answers in other threads I've been checking out. Today is May 15 and by the end of June I will be moving to a new place. I'm taking this opportunity to upgrade my tank and have some questions about the process and...

So I got this hairy mushroom coral about a week ago and noticed a few feather duster looking things on it. Except I’m worried they might be aipstasia. There’s about 3 of them from what I can see. I dip all my corals but know feather dusters sometimes survive and aiptasia definitely will survive...

Hi All, I just noticed that my hammer and frogspawn has been acting weird since yesterday. Are these Aiptasia growing out of it? If so, should I take it out and dip it with CoralRX? These two are the only two with it that I noticed. No recent outbreak. My nitrate did drop from 10 to roughly 0...

I just found a lot of transparent Aiptasia in my tank. It's not like typical Aiptasia; it's transparent. Is it algae or Aiptasia? What should I do? Thank you

Brought home a few frags but I didn’t see this when I was at my LFS. It was a “free” zoa (buy 4 get 2 free) and I wouldn’t want to particularly throw it out but what are my options? Don’t we need to hit the inevitable some time?

I have a pretty bad aiptasia infestation in my 90 gallon display tank. I first tried aiptasia x, but i overdid the amount at once spiked the Ph and irritated my coral. I tried again using a smaller amount, but the Ph spike still took out my big birdsnest coral. I have on two occasions added...

Hey reefers, have some berghia available for local pickup in CA 95070. Shipping is also available for $50 with a minimum order of $100 1/2" for $10 each (young adults that still eat plenty of aiptasia and begin breeding in a few weeks if well fed) 3/4" for $15 each (mature adults that lay egg...

I’ve made an aiptasia wand. I used it a few weeks ago and it worked well. But I’m not sure if when you cook them into a jelly blob whether it pollutes the water? The first time I used it for a few weeks after my corals were retracted, but I did a water change just after cooking them and had a...

Hello Everyone... I Wanna share with you guys the recent experience that i had... I have a some experience with reef aquariums already, so, it's commom to me to do a some moves, I Just moved for another house, and last sunday i started moving my reef tank... Everything was done, new water...

Hi ! I have a 18 years old 150 gallons tank. I never had any issue until a few months ago, everything went wrong at the same time :/ Probably got a power outage that went unoticed: my skimmer died + my heater went rogue (82°F). I was not there ... My wife did not notice for a week. At the end...

Hello I am new to reefing and went ahead and started with live rock and sand from TBS. I have only had the rock for 24 hours but wanted to get a headstart on potential issues with pests. Please help me ID whats going on here, loks like aiptasia and tube worms? Are tube worms something I need...

My clam is usually doing really well in my tank. However, I just noticed there is Aiptasia on it this morning, and it's not opening very wide. But it still seems sensitive to light. Do I need to get rid of the Aiptasia? Does Aiptasia harm clam?

Pervagor eating aiptasia? Hi everybody, I’m new to this forum, I’ve been following you for some time and finally I took the courage to register . I’m struggling with a 40 gallons Reef tank for three years now, mainly sps and lps and when I was getting some progress I started my fight with...

I have Berghia nudibranchs for Aiptasia control available for local sale in the SF Bay Area. $15 each for young adults (about 1/2”). In general I recommend 1 young adult per 10g, not fewer than 4. Pickup in Walnut Creek preferred. Thanks!

Today I introduced a small rose BTA into it. Everything seemed fine during acclimation, and I carefully placed it on the rock. But, to my surprise, my peppermint shrimp started to bother it right away. I initially thought the shrimp was just being curious, but then I noticed textures of the BTA...

Meet Bellactis lux n. sp. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Aiptasiidae), a new sea anemone from the Gulf of Mexico! Tampa Bay Saltwater founder, Richard Londeree, has been observing Lightbulb anemones for over 30 years in the Gulf of Mexico and as of October 2023, this anemone has an official...

Aiptasia took over my tank after a crash 10 days ago after the corals died. Now i only have a candy cane and one small colony of favites. Aiptasia for some reason grew so fast and big during the crash. Thinking of adding a aiptasia eating filefish to clear the aiptasia before i add corals. When...

I am brand new to salt water aquariums. We got some live rocks from a local store shortly after setting them up in our brand new tank I noticed this on one of the rocks. I’m wondering if it is an aiptasia. We also have a few brittle starfish that have come with the rocks. And if it is any advice...

I’ve got about 12 that I can count mainly all on one rock and then 1 solo on another rock. What would be my best method of attack? I’ve been reading up on Aiptasia-X, F-Aiptasia, and other chemical attacks and have seen mixed reviews that they just come back after a few days and it’s not truly...