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10/14/2019, 12:50 AM | #1 |
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What causes aiptasia?? Once gone is it gone forever??
I've had an aiptasia issue spring up. I have a melenarus wrasse I love and will have to trap.
I plan on bringing in a peppermint shrimp to do the job.... If I get the pep in there and he kills all the aiptasia is there a way to prevent them from coming back aside from watching out for hitchhikers?? Thanks Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk
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10/14/2019, 01:01 AM | #2 |
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I personally think it's impossible to completely eliminate it. Some peppermint shrimps eat it, some don't. If you get one that does eat it they may be able to keep it in check over time.
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10/14/2019, 04:34 AM | #3 |
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A whole polyp or just a single cell hitchhikes into the tank on other corals/rocks,etc...
If there is plenty of extra food in the tank and conditions are right you can have an outbreak.. If you manage to eliminate them and don't ever put anything else into the tank is possible that you may never see them again.
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10/14/2019, 05:32 AM | #4 |
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+1 on you’ll never fully get rid of them. It’s just about keeping them in control. Even if you think they are gone from the display there’s sure to be one lurking in the sump or plumbing.
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10/14/2019, 05:49 AM | #5 |
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I hadn't seen an aiptasia in my tank for several years because my Muelleri Copperband kept them in check. A couple months ago, my Muelleri died and the aiptasia came back in just a few weeks. They'd been lurking in the overflow and other places inaccessible to the butterfly for nearly a decade.
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10/14/2019, 12:52 PM | #6 |
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Why are you trapping the Melanurus? I don't see the connection to Aptasia?
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He’s afraid it will eat the pep shrimp. I would be too personally. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Get a Matted File Fish
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10/14/2019, 02:45 PM | #9 |
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Copperband Butterfly will also go after Aiptasia from what I have heard, but are also a harder fish to keep. When I had my 75G reef, I had an Aiptasia outbreak and used Aiptasia-X. I was able to eliminate most of them that I could see.
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10/14/2019, 03:31 PM | #11 |
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+1 on the matted filefish. I have one in my 700g along with a copper and and none to be seen.
Peppermint are hit or miss imo. Through the years I’ve had ones work, but more so they just scavenge and take food from coral. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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It’s hard to tell as I have a very large copper and and regal angelfish in the tank. I know they nip at my sps, but the tanks loaded with them so I haven’t had any worries. I have sps and lps in the tank. No zoas as the angel grew a taste for them after the tank transfer so I can’t say on that account. They are definitely interesting fish, whenever I have people over they are always asking what that fish is because they look so odd. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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10/15/2019, 04:12 PM | #16 |
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they are not called pests for nothing.
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10/15/2019, 07:37 PM | #17 |
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+1 on the copper banded butterfly
Got mine to control a bad outbreak. 3 years later I haven't seen an aptasia and my copper banded is doing great. He's constantly hunting for them still.
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Ny filefish took care of my aiptasia. Once they were 'all' gone I placed him in my refugium. However, the aiptasia came back after about a month, so I had to put him back in the tank to keep them in check.
He does not kill any coral, but sps polyps are not what they used to be... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8c4G97ola40 |
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Dude those suckers are smart
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I got a good number of Aiptasia with a portion of Halimeda... Only good thing about those particular ones is that they don't reproduce as crazy as other strains I have dealt with.
The worst were the micro "Aiptasia" I got once with some macro algae from LiveAquaria. They didn't get any larger than 1/4", reproduced like crazy, and nothing would eat them, not even the Berghia I ordered to clean the tank of them. They rather starved to death. Ultimately I decided to bleach the whole tank to make sure they would not spread to my other tanks... Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
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10/18/2019, 06:55 AM | #23 |
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I've had them for years and can't for the life of me get rid of them. I think I've tried everything. It's so frustrating. The look terrible and my coral isn't too terribly thrilled.
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10/18/2019, 01:33 PM | #24 |
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My matted filefish wouldn't touch aiptasia. It was tank bred though so maybe that had something to do with it? I had a huge infestation that over took my tank.
I ended up tearing my tank down, muriatic acid dipping my rocks, and starting my tank over. Aiptaisa gone. Now I'm going fowlr so I can just enjoy my tank and not have to deal with the hassle of coral and the hitchhikers and pests that come with it. I grew tired of the testing and dosing that a reef tank requires. Then even when everything tests good you'll have some coral start to die off for no reason. Super frustrating. Fowlr for me equals less stress and more time to just enjoy my tank. I got into the hobby because of the fish anyways.
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