Serious Aiptasia Outbreak

Tango Tangy · Mar 17, 2016

Does anyone know the best way to get rid of Aiptasia? I've seen Aiptasia X at my local LFS, is it worth the purchase or could I use some at home remedy?

shoelaceike · Mar 17, 2016

Copperband. Works like a charm and are beautiful too

Tango Tangy · Mar 17, 2016

I've heard they are very finicky when it comes to eating and are hard to take care of. I'm also worried to place a copperband in my tank because I have a pretty territorial yellow tang.

shoelaceike · Mar 17, 2016

The tang could be a problem but I always hhave had them eating mysis. If you add other tangs just throw him in with them and he won't even be looked at

adw · Mar 18, 2016

Peppermint shrimp

shoelaceike · Mar 18, 2016

The one time I tried peppermints they ate 2 plate corals

jsker · Mar 18, 2016

I have had really good luck with this guy http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+30+2562&pcatid=2562. Very cool fish too look at.

adw · Mar 18, 2016

I never had an issue with mine eating coral. I would say the key is you need a crew of them.

AllSignsPointToFish · Mar 18, 2016

I used a combination of super glue, Aiptasia X, and peppermint shrimp.

JMacedo · Mar 18, 2016

My own experience:

Coperband - They were more interested on my Christmas tree worms and some sps and never touched the aiptasia despite seen them eating aiptasia in videos.
Matted Filefish - Was unable to see if they eat aiptaisia as they went for sps corals like dogs to a yummy bone! Had to remove them just a few hours later.
Peppermint shrimp - I had success until my red coris grew up and ate them all!
Six Spined - My favourite aptasia eating fish. They ate all visible aiptaisia in a week or so. The first and second pair died of starvation as I couldn´t figure out what they eat. These never touched my sps. Two months ago or so I bought another three, they ate the aptaisia and then they turned to the sps and Christmas tree worms. I sent them back to the LFS.
Nowadays I am using Aptaisia X, it works for the ones I can see and reach.

Conman33 · Mar 18, 2016

Apraxia x I swear buy it

Conman33 · Mar 18, 2016

Aptasia x

mcmc1717 · Mar 18, 2016

what type of fish is a six spined?

R_C · Mar 18, 2016

Peppermint shrimps did it for me.

jcdeng · Mar 18, 2016

with Aptasia-X I can't get to the ones that is under a rock or behind it. So eventually those that are left grew very big and was able to repopulate the tank full of aptasias.

TRUE pepermint shrimps did it for me too. I had 2, after all the aptasias are gone, one died due to starvation. So now I hand feed my other one with pellets, point is, true pepermints will not attack corals even when hungry.

Darryl · Mar 18, 2016

i think he means six line wrasse

shoelaceike · Mar 18, 2016

jcdeng said:
with Aptasia-X I can't get to the ones that is under a rock or behind it. So eventually those that are left grew very big and was able to repopulate the tank full of aptasias.

TRUE pepermint shrimps did it for me too. I had 2, after all the aptasias are gone, one died due to starvation. So now I hand feed my other one with pellets, point is, true pepermints will not attack corals even when hungry.

What do you mean "true"? You mean not camalback?

JMacedo · Mar 18, 2016

mcmc1717 said:
what type of fish is a six spined?

Parachaetodon ocellatus

Standard Common Name
Ocellate Butterflyfish

Alternative Name/s
Eye-spot Butterflyfish, Ocellate Coralfish, Six-spined Butterfly-fish, Six-spined Coralfish

JMacedo · Mar 18, 2016

Darryl said:
i think he means six line wrasse

Nope,
Parachaetodon ocellatus

jcdeng · Mar 18, 2016

shoelaceike said:
What do you mean "true"? You mean not camalback?

Yep, a lot of shops sell the camel as peppermints.
Camel Shrimp, Rhynchocinetes durbanensis <-- avoid

peppermint, Lysmata wurdemanni <--- get it if you can find it.