Best natural Aiptasia eradication method POLL

[adiG]

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 prettiest fish at the LFS

Just wanted to get everyone's opinion to hopefully help me make my decision

Thank you!

 

[ZoWhat]

CBB 100%

CBB will ONLY eat/feast on any baby aiptasia that's small enough that the CBB won't get stung by

Your job as a human is to kill off medium to large size aiptasia by hand... knowing the aiptasia will produce offspring in the water column as it's last ditch effort to survive before dying.

Takes a couple of months chasing after medium to large sized Aiptasia but you'll eventually win the battle as the CBB feasts on new baby aiptasia.

T E A M W O R K

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[Dburr1014]

How to kill aiptasia effectively

Everyone has or will have these buggers if you don't QT everything. They have adopted to living in our tanks quite well and are really good at survival. I have used many ways to kill aiptasia I still find them. I have only seen one in my system in the past couple years until a couple days ago...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[FishTrader]

Adding to this thread bc I have only a 10gal AIO and aptasia everywhere. I have 1 clown fish and 1 cleaner shrimp, bunch of snails and random hermits and bristle worms. I've added 3 nudis a month ago and 3 more last week. I havent seen any of them. I cant find any info on these things I listed as eating berghia, but it has to be something its only a 10g tank and I cant see anything!

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I won't add more fish to my tank, I won't risk any shrimp in my tank, so I have fallen into a cycle of adding berghia once or twice a year into my tank.

 

[steveschuerger]

CBB 100%

CBB will ONLY eat/feast on any baby aiptasia that's small enough that the CBB won't get stung by

Your job as a human is to kill off medium to large size aiptasia by hand... knowing the aiptasia will produce offspring in the water column as it's last ditch effort to survive before dying.

Takes a couple of months chasing after medium to large sized Aiptasia but you'll eventually win the battle as the CBB feasts on new baby aiptasia.

T E A M W O R K

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Agree, with the caveat that mine eventually took out the moderately larger ones of 1-1.5 inches. Visible areas in the tank are visually free of aiptasia. And eats frozen like a champ.

 

[adiG]

Agree, with the caveat that mine eventually took out the moderately larger ones of 1-1.5 inches. Visible areas in the tank are visually free of aiptasia. And eats frozen like a champ.

Did you quarentine your CB? I had a bad ich outbreak a couple years ago and since then I've been doing a 1.5 month quarentine with copper and prazipro but not sure if the CB will make it through that

 

[steveschuerger]

Did you quarentine your CB? I had a bad ich outbreak a couple years ago and since then I've been doing a 1.5 month quarentine with copper and prazipro but not sure if the CB will make it through that

Nope. Went right in. Started eating off the rocks and took out the little tube worms on my rocks in the first week or so. After that started eating frozen and then a little while later got interested in the pest nems. This is it this morning

 

[flashsmith]

I tried all of the above and had zero success. It got so bad I went nuclear and added a Pakistan butterfly and a raccoon butterfly. I had hundreds of mature aiptasia and was willing to lose some coral at that point. Within 2 weeks all aiptasia gone. That's been a year ago and tank has been clean and no interest in any coral.

 

[exnisstech]

I never see any in the tank these two patrol

Peppermints keep my display clear of them in my other two tanks. Never tried berghia becuase I figure they would just be an expensive snack for some of my fish.

 

[AlanS]

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 prettiest fish at the LFS

Just wanted to get everyone's opinion to hopefully help me make my decision

Thank you!

Copperband butterfly works great.