Aiptasia

toothman · Sep 17, 2015

+1 on the kalk paste. Take a syringe with a somewhat thick mix of kalk and put in right on the aptasia and watch it melt

patrick · Sep 17, 2015

I've tried all methods above. Paste, boiling water, zappers, lasers, copperbands, file fish (they like acans) peppermint shrimp(they like acans) all with no luck.
I have a 150 gallon cube with a 20 gallon sump. I bought 20 berghia nudi's
And with in 3 months I had zero aptasia. I literally had 500 or more aptasia to begin with. I have mostly fairy wrasses and a few leopards so in my case the wrasses weren't eating them.
Aptasia are a pain for sure good luck
Also for water flow I have jebao rw15 and a rw20 and a tunze 6100
So flow at least for me didn't effect the effectiveness of the nudibranchs.

steelheader.262 · Sep 17, 2015

I can't decide Pepper's or nudi's

Hey a fellow Wiscosinite, what part of the state are you from?

patrick · Sep 17, 2015

MT. Horeb

patrick · Sep 17, 2015

There is no downside to the Berghia
Except $ I guess.
With peppermint shrimp it's a gamble.

Kenyon · Sep 17, 2015

I had incredible luck with peppermint shrimp!! I had a bad outbreak in a 200 gallon and I ordered 10 pepermints and stopped feeding all together and aptasia was gone in a week.. I think you need to make sure the shrimp haven't been at the LFS for a long time or else they will just want real food.

jsker · Sep 17, 2015

jamesonkh said:
I would be reluctant to boil the rock - it probably has more stuff on there than you know, some of which is unseen/unseeable... Creatures are cool, so I would try peppermint shrimp or berghia first, it's a good way to learn about another side of the hobby. I never thought I could "grow" berghia - until I did it....

There was an article out there about boiling live rock on the house. 1. Be careful and do it outside (doing is in the house from what I remembered released pathogens and they had to go to the ER. what I have found is using a natural predictor is better then using chemical, boiling, lasers etc.