Just Got Some Berghia

[Hockeypunk1]

My shipment of berghia came in today from salty underground. I picked them up for what I felt was a great deal. 5 half inch and 10 quarter inch all shipped for under $100. I've had a bad aiptasia outbreak lately. I'm pretty excited to see how these work. I made the mistake of trying aiptasia x and I literally saw the aiptasia shoot out spores when I put the x on it. In the pictures you can see one of my aiptasia gardens and if you look really hard you can see a white berghia crawling through the aips.

 

[Hockeypunk1]

Just happened to notice this little one munching away

 

[Hockeypunk1]

They really took care of the aips that was all over this rock

 

[whotzler]

Update?

 

[Coley]

Just this week my nudis arrived. I got 6 of the 1/4 size. I placed them all together in same spot. My question is will they eventually travel around to other areas with Aiptasia? I’m already 1 Aiptasia down!! Whohoooo!! I understand that it will take some time.

 

[cmcoker]

Just this week my nudis arrived. I got 6 of the 1/4 size. I placed them all together in same spot. My question is will they eventually travel around to other areas with Aiptasia? I’m already 1 Aiptasia down!! Whohoooo!! I understand that it will take some time.

I put 10 in a 54g with heavy infestation mid August, I was clear of aiptasia about a week or so ago
I also placed them together on one side of the tank

 

[Hockeypunk1]

So far so good. Most of the aiptasia has been wiped out. I still have new baby aips that pop up from time to time and occasionally I see a baby berg wandering around. I put all my bergs in the same place as well, about six inches from a patch of aiptasia. My understanding is the berghia release some kind of pheromone onto the aips which attract other berghia to the location

 

[Coley]

Great news! I have an 80g. 5 is what they recommended. I went with 6. I have about a dozen that I can see. Patience I know is the key lol!

 

[kamike91]

So far so good. Most of the aiptasia has been wiped out. I still have new baby aips that pop up from time to time and occasionally I see a baby berg wandering around. I put all my bergs in the same place as well, about six inches from a patch of aiptasia. My understanding is the berghia release some kind of pheromone onto the aips which attract other berghia to the location

Awesome do you guys have any wrasse? I have tons and tons of aiptasia I've been hitting with kalk paste. I want to try berghia but have a harlequin tusk, yellow coris, pintail fairy wrasse, leopard wrasse, and Labouts fairy wrasse. Do you think the berghia will just become an expensive meal?

 

[lion king]

Awesome do you guys have any wrasse? I have tons and tons of aiptasia I've been hitting with kalk paste. I want to try berghia but have a harlequin tusk, yellow coris, pintail fairy wrasse, leopard wrasse, and Labouts fairy wrasse. Do you think the berghia will just become an expensive meal?

Yummy, that was always my problem; they work wonderfully but there was always something in the tanks that eventually ate them. And yes the wrasses will make short order of them. I use aiptasia x to this day for years, and have never had anything negative to say. Turn your pumps off, take it slow and juice them up, leave the pumps off for several more minutes, and voila. I get a few that pop up from time to time anymore, I probably juice them a couple of times a year.

 

[Ento-Reefer]

I used then successfully with a large melanurus wrasse. The trick is to add them at night. I never saw any of the nudi out during daylight hours so my guess is they stayed hidden well enough to escape being eaten.

 

[Hockeypunk1]

I would be wary of adding them to a tank full of wrasse. My concern was an overly aggressive sally lightfoot crab in my tank. I was able to catch it and banish to the refugium. I have a hawkfish that I was nervous about but hasn't touched the bergs. I have a serpent starfish follows the trail of the bergs. I haven't seen any of the bergs for weeks but I do notice the aips still disappearing.
I had terrible luck with aiptasia x. I used exactly as instructions stated and I saw a large aiptasia release the planula and within a few weeks I had an all out outbreak. Before using the X I had 2-3 large aips and after seeing the planula I had upwards of 100

 

[Velcro]

I have two leopards and a melanarus in my 90 cube. I’ve literally watched all of my wrasses swim right past all sizes of the Berghia while examining rock for pods. Mine don’t seem to touch them, and my nudis have been breeding successfully for months. Your mileage may vary, but anyone that tells you the wrasses rule out Berghia nudis as an option either had bad luck with their wrasses appetites or are just repeating things that they’ve read from other posts. My guess is the latter is more of the issue

 

[kamike91]

I have two leopards and a melanarus in my 90 cube. I’ve literally watched all of my wrasses swim right past all sizes of the Berghia while examining rock for pods. Mine don’t seem to touch them, and my nudis have been breeding successfully for months. Your mileage may vary, but anyone that tells you the wrasses rule out Berghia nudis as an option either had bad luck with their wrasses appetites or are just repeating things that they’ve read from other posts. My guess is the latter is more of the issue

Cool, thanks for the replies, didn't mean to hijack the thread. I will try them out.

 

[Coley]

I know this sounds crazy... but I love to count how many Aiptasia are missing each day or two!! Yippeee

 

[Ksturg]

I know this is an old thread but I have a 55 gal with tons of aptasia do you guys think 2 of the 1/4 size ones will do the trick? And will they eat large aptasia?

 

[cmcoker]

I know this is an old thread but I have a 55 gal with tons of aptasia do you guys think 2 of the 1/4 size ones will do the trick? And will they eat large aptasia?

I started with 10 berghia in a 54g, it took about 2 months to start seeing a difference in the aiptasia. I wouldn't do less than 6

Edit to add, yes they will eat the large ones. What I found is they will eat and make it mad, it will release from the rock and reattach somewhere. Once you get a large enough population they will form a pack and consume it in one sitting. When they reach those numbers is when you will see a significant reduction in the aiptasia.

 

[Ksturg]

Well I have about $50 to spend so it’ll be 3 and hope for the best.

 

[lou dog420]

They worked great in my system, but it took about 2 months. They also multiplied like crazy, and migrated to every part of my system, even cleaning out the sump.

 

[Ksturg]

That’s what I’m hoping for is for them to reproduce...will they eat large aptasia?