Aiptasias
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I have went to Petco or Pet Smart and bought a fish breeder system or fish acclimation box. Its clear plastic and it floats. I then put several peppermint shrimp in the box with a rock that has aiptasias on it. I don't feed the box until the shrimp eat the aiptasias, it has never taken longer than three to four days. I then try and put another one in there and then I release the shrimp in my tank. Even in a 200 gallon system that had over 200 aiptasias in it they were able to clean them out in three weeks time. Good luck.
Eye dropper works the best
mobatic
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Peppermint shrimp works for me.
Kalk paste tends to leave spores, even after you siphon everything out.
I had a huge infestation from a rock that I was unaware there was a tiny aiptasia.
1 Month later my entire tank was covered with those brown ugly aiptasia.
Luckily, I still had my peppermint shrimp before I sent him out on a tour.
Threw him in the display tank, overnight everything was completely got.
My tank is 180 gallons, shrimp was the size of a small sized frozen shrimp from the store.
The kind you'd put in sviche.
Kalk paste tends to leave spores, even after you siphon everything out.
I had a huge infestation from a rock that I was unaware there was a tiny aiptasia.
1 Month later my entire tank was covered with those brown ugly aiptasia.
Luckily, I still had my peppermint shrimp before I sent him out on a tour.
Threw him in the display tank, overnight everything was completely got.
My tank is 180 gallons, shrimp was the size of a small sized frozen shrimp from the store.
The kind you'd put in sviche.
AptasiaX, lemon jucie, peppermint shrimp, i tried it all but a fish. Nothing worked, took a old soldering iron to the aptasia out of the tank it seems to kill everything. Only thing is you have to be able to take the rock out, I can't get the 3 on my main base rock.
aquavista99
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euphoricgear
Active Member
Berghia is the best way. They only eat Aiptasias and when they're all gone, they starve to death, turning white, I believe. So that would be the best time to catch them and trade them or loan them to friends. Cause aiptasias always come back. :neutral:
turfster26
Active Member
The trouble I find with peppermint shrimp is that they float/creep to the top of the tank and get suck into the external overflow. Is it just me or do they find their home eventually?
Der ABT
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I have been breeding nudi's for a while now and they are very cool creatures, they just take alot of time to do their thing. and the problem is also that fish can eat them, powerheads can chew them up, etc etc etc....they are not a sure thing. if your aiptasia are too spread out they may die before they find them all.
i have found that zappers do not work. they may kill them at first but always have had others spread out around
kalk works pretty good but doesnt always get rid of them for good
manual removal works buts is a pain.
File fish definately work, they may not be able to get into every crevice but ive seen them clean a tank.
pepermint are hit or miss and are known as nudi predators (fyi)
i have an infestation that is just rediculous but it makes getting food for the nudi's easy which is why I havent put them in my tank... but i know they can eat anywhere from 1-5 good size aiptasia each day.....actually kinda cool to watch me eat.
if you go the nudi route, just get like 3-5 of them and set up a little breeding station. i have a thread about how i did it if you search for it.....i went from 2 to 20+ in about a month and a half.....if you dont have time to keep the water quality good they generall dont do that great though.
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i have found that zappers do not work. they may kill them at first but always have had others spread out around
kalk works pretty good but doesnt always get rid of them for good
manual removal works buts is a pain.
File fish definately work, they may not be able to get into every crevice but ive seen them clean a tank.
pepermint are hit or miss and are known as nudi predators (fyi)
i have an infestation that is just rediculous but it makes getting food for the nudi's easy which is why I havent put them in my tank... but i know they can eat anywhere from 1-5 good size aiptasia each day.....actually kinda cool to watch me eat.
if you go the nudi route, just get like 3-5 of them and set up a little breeding station. i have a thread about how i did it if you search for it.....i went from 2 to 20+ in about a month and a half.....if you dont have time to keep the water quality good they generall dont do that great though.
my 2cents
Reefpestsolutions
Community Member
Berghia definitely go berghia. Aiptasia can spread 4 different ways in your tank. 1, they are A sexual 2, sexual 3, they can spore 4 plate laceration. It only takes 1 cell for aiptasia to grow back and that is why berghia are so effective. The gole is to get them to breed in your tank and larva will eat and grow into a monster aiptasia eating colony. If you use a nother remade make sure you get all of the plate or you will have more than you bargain for.
_sludgefactory
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I've had a few through the years. I usually hit em with a syringe full of boiling tank water. Or plaster over them with epoxy.
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Alpha Aquaculture
Designer Clownfish Hatchery
Berghia for sure! They have an amazing ability to sense aiptasia. When they do its all over for the aiptasia!
crackers
Community Member
The only way I have found that really works is inject them with lugols but I only do this when I get one on a plug I can do outside of the tank then rinse in tank water. But I have a friend who doses iodine and instead of just putting the drops of iodine in the tank water he injects aptasias with it a drop or two is all you need. So if you dose like 6 or 8 drops a week you can kill 2 or 3 aptasias a week seems to work great so far.
