Corona Aiptasia

[Jimmyneptune]

With the stay at home going on I have lots of time to tackle these gerks

I have a rather large infestation of aiptasia, possibly hundreds. I tried a copper band butterfly fish that seems to have little to no interest in the aiptasia. I have an aiptasia eating file fish, wild caught, that will not eat the aiptasia but he is going after my BTA, so the file fish is in my sump now. I had a pair of file fish from LA that mowed down this problem before but apparently didn’t take everything out. I sold them once I thought the problem was gone. I currently have a leopard wrasse, radiant wrasse, Christmas wrasse and 2 McCoskers wrasse in this tank which makes me leery of using peppermint shrimp and Berghia nudibranch.



I am on the winning side of beating an algae and bryopsis battle and I am looking for suggestions on how to get rid of aiptasia. I never realized how many they were until lot of the algae was gone.

If you have ideas I am open to suggestions.

 

[tehmadreefer]

Berghia nudi’s. The sole food source is aiptasia, however they are expensive but will eat every aiptasia then starve to death.

 

[Cristy17]

BRS put out a really good video yesterday about battling aiptasia. I have and am in the same situation, except I only have one 6 line wrasse. I have some nudis arriving Fri so hopefully this time they will work. This is my third go at it. It seems the BRS video is recommenting injecting the aiptasia with Aptasia X or Joes Juice or something like that, and then putting epoxy over it...I will be doing the combonation of that and the nudis.

 

[Jimmyneptune]

Is it possible to catch Berghia nudibranch after they have cleared the tank of aiptasia? It sounds like they will breed in the tank as well.

 

[Mhart032]

I used kalk to make a paste to kill them, i dont inject them, i just cover them with the paste and walla gone.

 

[tehmadreefer]

Is it possible to catch Berghia nudibranch after they have cleared the tank of aiptasia? It sounds like they will breed in the tank as well.

Absolutely, as they will be visible in search for food when the aiptasia starts to be eaten off. When there is plenty of food you will very rarely see them and if you do it will only be at night. They breed easily, especially in the overflows.

 

[Cristy17]

Is it possible to catch Berghia nudibranch after they have cleared the tank of aiptasia? It sounds like they will breed in the tank as well.

I have never seen them after putting them in but I have heard some reef clubs will rotate a bunch of them to the members tanks that need them, that way the nudis stay alive and the tanks get the eradication of aiptasia. A win win all around! I may try to do the same. I heard they come out when all the lights are out. Use a flashlight to find them.

 

[zapbap99]

Is it possible to catch Berghia nudibranch after they have cleared the tank of aiptasia? It sounds like they will breed in the tank as well.

yes they go on glass at night

 

[Cristy17]

I used kalk to make a paste to kill them, i dont inject them, i just cover them with the paste and walla gone.

Yes, the BRS video had this method mentioned as well.

 

[Stutters]

Kalk paste is the way to do it! it gets rid of them for sure

 

[Johny Cash]

how do you make kalk paste please share.

nudis are expensive, plus i have a peppermint shrimp that i dont know how to catch.

will probably eat nudis.

 

[soeminpaing]

Aiptasia is like a disease. You just try to live with it and keep it under control. It is extremely hard to get rid of. If you use fish and shrimp it will not get rid of those hiding in overflow box and plumbing. Even the nudibrach might miss one or two before dying of starvation. So the only option is try to keep it under control. I heard about Frank Aiptasia which is kinda new with lots of positive feedbacks. But I am lazy and currently using peppermint shrimps. The worst thing is I have 5 saltwater tanks so I probably have to buy at least ten if I plan to keep 2 shrimps per tank.