Is my tank already doomed? (apatasia)

[Chrysemys]

Aiptasia are ugly? Darn. There goes my nem business plan. I have nudibranches in my tank now taking care of mine. Hopefully.

How easy to care for are these nudibranches ? hardy? I tried peppermint shrimp, but shrimp just don’t survive in my set up. Was looking at these little guys the other day and thinking I’d try a few.

 

[Katrina71]

How easy to care for are these nudibranches ? hardy? I tried peppermint shrimp, but shrimp just don’t survive in my set up. Was looking at these little guys the other day and thinking I’d try a few.

You'll never really see them. You'll just see your aiptasia slowly going away. They work!

 

[Rc1989]

I used a few Berghia Nudibranchs. Didn’t have much, but it disappeared as they did. Found 1/3

 

[landlubber]

If the dreaded aptasia appears a filefish is the only way to go. I tried the kalk method, aptasia X and even a copperband but the ORA raised filefish blasted through an infestation I had.

no question filefish eat aptasia but they have just as much chance at sawing through soft corals and lps as well which is why you don't see one in every reef tank. its unfortunate because some of them can be a really nice looking fish.

 

[Fishfinder]

Just get the berghia and be done with it. Aptasia is their only food source. It will take take time depending on tank size, and how many you add. But they work 100%. they ate hundreds from my tank

 

[HB AL]

Aiptasia are not the end of the world, if I didn't have fish that would eat the nudis I would probably try some. I have many aiptasia and once a month or so feed the ones I can get to aiptasia x, works great. Aiptasia are not like something that's gonna cause a full tank crash. You either try to completely eradicate them or control them. Here's a pic of my tank and they really don't cause me any concern.

 

[emilios_reeftank]

I had a aiptasia outbreak in my tank (24g nano cube) and I used a peppermint shrimp in my system and it was totally gone within 2 weeks. I noticed someone say it killed their anemone so I would be aware of that, but if not definitely go for a peppermint shrimp.

Peppermint Shrimp are great at keeping Aiptasia at bay. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ChrisW]

I used the aptasia x on the frag and it killed that. I still don’t knw if it was in the tank long enough to spread, so got some peppermint shrimp just in case.
Now I have a sick foxface, not sure how tht happened. Went to a fragging demo and got some free frags which was great, and the next day my foxface was laboring severely. Could have been harassed by the tang, not sure what else it could be, Bc all the other fish in the tank are fine, no symptoms. Foxface is in the refugium now, but is not doing well... I don’t knw what caused this

 

[Fishfinder]

Do you qt fish? How long have you had him?

 

[HB AL]

Any white spots on fish? Torn fins?

 

[ChrisW]

He was QTed for 4 wks before adding to display and has been in there for about a month before I moved it down to the fuge. Hard to tell about white spots Bc it’s been changing color to very dark since this behavior has started. Did notice slightly torn fins though, I’m thinking the tang was responsible for that. It’s not swimming around but I can see it’s still moving it’s def not eating but I see it’s spikes come up when I go to put some nori on a clip for it. I’m assuming it’s eventuallg going to die I just don’t want to facilitate that, but I’m thinking I’m just letting it suffer. Not sure what do next w it..

 

[HB AL]

If you can get it to eat it's got a chance. Try live brine or worms.

 

[ChrisW]

I’ll give that a shot thanks for the tip

 

[Musovski]

Just throw a grenade in there. It’ll remove all problems.

Haha
Try a Copperband. I have not read the rest of the post so if people have said this than uhhh..... What they said!