I have aiptasia issues.

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I got a ten gallon to put my inverts and coral in then treated by main tank with cuppermine seachem a safe copper treatment , it destroys Aiptasia but you have to be careful because it will destroy all coral, inverts even a drop but it wiped out my Aiptasia and it is safe and good for the fish
 
Peppermints worked for me like a charm! I bought 3, for my 50 cube, starved the tank, only feeding large mysis once every 3 days, Hikari seaweed pellets otherwise. After about 4 days they were completely gone!
 
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Well you allowed them to get that big, sounds like you were begging them to take over. I would still give it a shot.
 
Just give em a shot with lemon juice, if they are indeed that big, its alot easier to kill em. Shoot them in the stalks, fill em as much as possible with the juice. Ive knocked out a few myself using this method. If you do it correctly you will see them start to disintegrate immediately.
 
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Ok...I have three choices here.

1. Peppermint Shrimp: Does eat aiptasia but I suspect I feed too heavily to really make them work. They also have areas they cannot reach.

2. Berghia Nudibranch: Uses aiptasia as sole food source, and can fit in holes the shrimp cannot, but may not completely eradicate them - meaning that when the population of nudis dies from too little food, the nems will come back.

3. Start Over with Dry Rock: Frankly the scariest and most difficult option short-term, but probably the only way to eliminate them completely and absolutely.

As tricky as it will be to pull off the last option, it IS in keeping with my usual method for getting past a situation I'd just be slogging through - wipe it clean and start over. I'll figure out a strategy to get things worked out despite my limited equipment. I would much rather cycle my new tank from scratch now than to be tearing my hair out over them later.

I doubt I'll have too much trouble snagging some new pods and such to repopulate. Maybe I'll get one of the fancy featherdusters....the tube worm I have has only a brown crown.
 
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Eienna said:
Ok...I have three choices here.

1. Peppermint Shrimp: Does eat aiptasia but I suspect I feed too heavily to really make them work. They also have areas they cannot reach.

2. Berghia Nudibranch: Uses aiptasia as sole food source, and can fit in holes the shrimp cannot, but may not completely eradicate them - meaning that when the population of nudis dies from too little food, the nems will come back.

3. Start Over with Dry Rock: Frankly the scariest and most difficult option short-term, but probably the only way to eliminate them completely and absolutely.

As tricky as it will be to pull off the last option, it IS in keeping with my usual method for getting past a situation I'd just be slogging through - wipe it clean and start over. I'll figure out a strategy to get things worked out despite my limited equipment. I would much rather cycle my new tank from scratch now than to be tearing my hair out over them later.
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I wouldnt start over, try out the peppermints, you will be surprised. Just make sure the peppermints you get are true peppermints. I know LFS around here sell some as peppermints but they really aren't. Just to be safe, I ordered mine from Liveaquaria, 3 of them for my 75 gallon tank, and I had about 40 aptasias, within a week they were all gone. I feed heavy in my tank as well and it didn't stop them from taking out the aptasias.
 
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I wouldnt start over, try out the peppermints, you will be surprised. Just make sure the peppermints you get are true peppermints. I know LFS around here sell some as peppermints but they really aren't. Just to be safe, I ordered mine from Liveaquaria, 3 of them for my 75 gallon tank, and I had about 40 aptasias, within a week they were all gone. I feed heavy in my tank as well and it didn't stop them from taking out the aptasias.
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I will give the matter some serious thought before deciding. :) I really appreciate all the input. It has been helpful.

If anyone has their input to add still, go ahead. I value the help. :)
 
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Eienna said:
I will give the matter some serious thought before deciding. :) I really appreciate all the input. It has been helpful.

If anyone has their input to add still, go ahead. I value the help. :)
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I was in the same position as you, I thought about restarting but thought bout it and decided to give a few things a try before I did that. I haven't had an aptasia in over a year, and I gave the peppermints away. There was some in places I didn't think they would get to, but they did.
 
I had a horrible problem with aptasia in my frag tank and 20g and this is what I did to eradicate the issue.

1.) Aptasia X - Now from my experience, this alone sucks because it always seems to make the big ones go away, but then I had little ones everywhere. I did this to every large one in the tank with flow off like the directions say then..

2.) Added 6 Peppermint shrimp and 6 nudis. After the large ones were gone, the critters took care of the rest. I had to keep hitting the larger ones with the X for about a week, but then I finally got rid of all of them and havn't seen them since.

Jusy my 2 cents...
 
Bergia eradicated them from our 75 gal for almost 2 years. Then got a few small frags that had one or them and now have a few here and there. I'm planning to get a few more Bergia to wipe them out.


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I had a garden in my tank . I got an apstasia eating file fish. It was like 30.00 it has gotten every piece in my tank . It is very ugly fish but now has grown on me . It will eat pellets frozen as well. I am not sure I will keep it in the tank or not I may just loan him out to other locals . Because aptsisa happens.
 
I hate aiptasia. Treated my new tank like an operating room (almost three years old now). I'm almost positive that I introduced aiptasia with a turbo snail. It's been a battle ever since. I have clams and feather dusters and all types of corals. Finally, as a last resort, I got a small Matted Filefish. The first couple weeks I didn't notice it eat any aiptasia, just saw it eating bugs. It's been a month now and there is a large reduction of aiptasia. The fish has never nipped at anything - like clams or corals, yet. We're keeping a close eye on it.

It is very hard to add a new fish to this tank because of the Powder Blue. I really don't like any aggression in the reef and love this tank because there is zero aggression.

We absolutely love this fish. It gets along great with all the other fish and it is just so darn cute.

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Mike J. said:
I hate aiptasia. Treated my new tank like an operating room (almost three years old now). I'm almost positive that I introduced aiptasia with a turbo snail. It's been a battle ever since. I have clams and feather dusters and all types of corals. Finally, as a last resort, I got a small Matted Filefish. The first couple weeks I didn't notice it eat any aiptasia, just saw it eating bugs. It's been a month now and there is a large reduction of aiptasia. The fish has never nipped at anything - like clams or corals, yet. We're keeping a close eye on it.

It is very hard to add a new fish to this tank because of the Powder Blue. I really don't like any aggression in the reef and love this tank because there is zero aggression.

We absolutely love this fish. It gets along great with all the other fish and it is just so darn cute.

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Haha, funny feller!
 
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Assuming I can afford them, I've decided to go with the nudis. We'll see what happens. I suppose I can always start over when I upgrade to a 125 if this doesn't work.
 
dwilliams87 said:
Make sure you follow the directions with the nudis as far as lights off and no flow when you introduce them.
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The...directions? What am I supposed to do? I figured you could drip-acclimate them same as anything else.
 
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