Aiptasia problem

jsc · Aug 25, 2020

Help!! What is the best thing to rid Aiptasia? Aiptasia x only works momentarily and they seem to come come back. More and more are popping up.

Reefer1978 · Aug 25, 2020

Berghia Nudibranchs.

FangsAndGames · Aug 25, 2020

Reefer1978 said:
Berghia Nudibranchs.

Absolutely. I had this problem recently, the absolutely nuked them. I probably had dozens of them. Within one week they were all gone. Get a filefish as well for control afterwards as well as they are awesome fish.

jsc · Aug 25, 2020

Reefer1978 said:
Berghia Nudibranchs.

I’ve got 2 before. They didn’t do anything for me. How many do you recommend?

FangsAndGames · Aug 25, 2020

May not have been then. The ones I had absolutely nuked them. Aiptasia tasers, filefish, nothing worked. Then i got Nudibranchs and they were all gone. Filefish kept them controlled afterwards.

BanjoMan87 · Aug 25, 2020

Lemon juice in a hypodermic needle worked on mine. A peppermint shrimp took care of the rest. I never had a large infestation though.

jsc · Aug 25, 2020

FangsAndGames said:
May not have been then. The ones I had absolutely nuked them. Aiptasia tasers, filefish, nothing worked. Then i got Nudibranchs and they were all gone. Filefish kept them controlled afterwards.
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is the file fish reef safe? Debating getting one of those but hearing mixed comments. Also, where did you get the nuidibranches

melanotaenia · Aug 25, 2020

Peppermint shrimp work well with small infestations, they work rather slowly to eliminate in my experience; choice of elimination really depends on what level of infestation you have; chemicals never work in the long run.

jsc · Aug 25, 2020

melanotaenia said:
Peppermint shrimp work well with small infestations, they work rather slowly to eliminate in my experience; choice of elimination really depends on what level of infestation you have; chemicals never work in the long run.

Not a huge infestation but definitely some. I just don’t want it getting out of hand. My peppermint shrimp have never worked.

lilkiwi930 · Aug 25, 2020

I am currently going through your pain, but it takes time. You cant kill everything off in just one day. I am on week 3. Has improved A LOT.. going in today for the 3rd batch of the aiptasia X.

But other than that you can pay to ship certain fish to eat them but they wont eat the huge aiptasia's.

JumboShrimp · Aug 25, 2020

Get some buckets of salt water to temporarily hold your rocks/corals. If you can physically take the rock work out of your tank, Aptasia-X / Joe’s Juice all that you can see; put your tank back together temporarily, and in a few days, repeat with the ‘new ones’ you see. Do this a few times over the course of a week or two and hopefully that will be that. Then be careful of any new additions.

Doctorgori · Aug 25, 2020

BanjoMan87 said:
Lemon juice in a hypodermic needle worked on mine. A peppermint shrimp took care of the rest. I never had a large infestation though.

yup that and/or peroxide ... Aptaisia-X only seemed to multiply them

melanotaenia said:
Peppermint shrimp work well with small infestations, they work rather slowly to eliminate in my experience; choice of elimination really depends on what level of infestation you have; chemicals never work in the long run.

After peroxide, lemon juice,vinegar, kalk all worked to some degree, I got my one tank manageable with shrimp seeing only 1 -2 every 6 mo’s

dan3949 · Aug 25, 2020

Aptaisia-X has always worked good for me. Be sure to squirt them when they are open. If they have retracted you have to wait for them to open before application.

Texas Rick · Aug 25, 2020

Berghia Nudibranchs never worked for me. Neither has a file fish I’m going to try peppermint shrimp.. But I hope they don’t eat my LPS, which I read and heard they might. It’s a risk I’m taking. I’m also doing straight lemon juice shots on them and it appears to work and kill them. I’m targeting others today. What I do. I turn off all pumps and flow and let them baste for about 10 minutes in the lemon shot

FangsAndGames · Aug 25, 2020

Filefish are safe. Never had an issue and some big names have them in mixed reefs. I’ll see if I can find where I bought them.

Darren in Tacoma · Aug 25, 2020

I bought a used tank that was infested, bad. 120 gallon tank with hundreds of aiptasia. Pepps and nudis didn't touch them. Aiptasia X was what I used and it worked perfectly. My 2 cents.

vetteguy53081 · Aug 25, 2020

Kleini butterfly is your ticket !!
Under 430, friendly, eats aptasia like candy and after aptasia gone, eats All dry and frozen food, nice colors and again eats aptasia like candy
I have one for each tank and they bother Nothing

Anihiel1 · Aug 25, 2020

Question, would the Klein's butterfly fish be ok with a foxface in a 55g...? If not what would you recommend...?

jsc · Aug 26, 2020

vetteguy53081 said:
Kleini butterfly is your ticket !!
Under 430, friendly, eats aptasia like candy and after aptasia gone, eats All dry and frozen food, nice colors and again eats aptasia like candy
I have one for each tank and they bother Nothing

No issue with corals?