Aiptasia sucks.

Usingthejohn · Jul 30, 2014

Sucks...its starting to overrun my tank. Tried both Aiptasia X and some other Aiptasia med with no luck. Added 10 peppermints last night, however my wrasses devoured them all this morning (and i still nearly all the aiptasia...no noticeable decrease). Will the wrasses eat the bergia nudis?

What about adding a CBB? Or will it die before eating any and/or all the aiptasia?

Finally...who has a majano wand I can borrow?

oredith · Jul 30, 2014

i don't have an "infestation" perse, but i've had a few from frags i've gotten from others, and the Joe's Juice has done wonders for me. every one (except for one) has been killed by a single application. the catch is you have to wait til it's big enough to be able to squirt the stuff right into its mouth.

of course, if you have a bunch of them, directly injecting each one may not be an option.

Zoarder · Jul 30, 2014

CBB are hit/miss. I got one that eat aiptasia cleaned one of my plugs but not sure if my peppermints had anything to do with it. What I do is put them in the sump with the infected plugs, once they are clean I moved them up. Its a frag tank tho so its a lot different from a display...

oredith · Jul 30, 2014

take your chances with a file fish? i know crystal has one in her tank that doesn't bother her coral.

BeanMachine · Jul 30, 2014

You saw your wrasses eating the peppermints? All of them? Dang Sure none survived sometimes it just takes some time.

ericta000 · Jul 30, 2014

Following along as i have a **** load of them too. I added 6 peppermints 3 months ago didnt seem to work.

BeanMachine · Jul 30, 2014

Yeah I used a matted file fish before and it worked. watch your coral though but they aren't terrible hard to catch. it is a risk though so be wary

Usingthejohn · Jul 30, 2014

BeanMachine said:

well i saw the lights come on and all the wrasses huddled in a corner. At first I thought they were playing dice...then saw them picking at some shrimp. Guess it was a gang initiation for the poor shrimp

BeanMachine · Jul 30, 2014

Hopefully a few found good day time hiding spots... give it another week before you do anything drastic

cowboycove · Jul 30, 2014

No exaggeration. But I used kalk paste. I did it twice. Second time to get the ones I didn't see the first time. Never came back again. Turn off all flow. Make a thick paste that will still squeeze out of a syringe. I use the ones I give out at Walgreen's for suspension. Leave the flow off for as long as possible and out a bubbled for oxygen. They'll all burn and die. I wouldn't go nuddie road. They're freaking expensive. Got me 5 of them. 2 instantly died. One was swallowed by an aptasia. I never saw the other two after day one. Biggest waste of 45$ ever. A stripper could've used that money. Lol. Jk I don't like strip clubs.

jeffreylam1132 · Jul 30, 2014

BeanMachine said:

This is probably your best bet. They will wiped out your aiptasia in no time.

Riblet · Jul 30, 2014

jeffreylam1132 said:

I have a proven killer, I'll be taking the tank down so he should be available in a week or so.

bvysochin · Jul 30, 2014

I had a crazy, I mean crazy, infestation in one of my tanks(120g shallow). I put two file fish in there and with in two weeks all the aiptasia and majanos were gone. They do eat whatever I throw in there but one has taken a likening to my zoas. So how I see it is either you have aiptasia killing all your stuff and growing out of control or get a file fish to eat them and occasionally peck at stuff/ eat some polyps?

I'll definitely choose the latter. Plus like Cody said they are some what easy to catch.

oredith · Jul 30, 2014

bvysochin said:

I had a crazy, I mean crazy, infestation in one of my tanks(120g shallow). I put two file fish in there and with in two weeks all the aiptasia and majanos were gone. They do eat whatever I throw in there but one has taken a likening to my zoas. So how I see it is either you have aiptasia killing all your stuff and growing out of control or get a file fish to eat them and occasionally peck at stuff/ eat some polyps?

I'll definitely choose the latter. Plus like Cody said they are some what easy to catch.

are filefish picky eaters? it'd be cool to have as a sump fish

xmas_one · Jul 30, 2014

I used to pop scuds in my FW shrimp tank with a similar setup, pretty sure this guy is running a 1.2W @445nm.
[video=youtube_share;Cbk7mA5PuAQ]http://youtu.be/Cbk7mA5PuAQ[/video]

oredith · Jul 30, 2014

xmas_one said:

haha.. i wouldn't even care if it worked. that'd just be awesome to play with

bvysochin · Jul 30, 2014

oredith said:

No not really. When they get hungry enough tell eat whatever you throw at them. Mine eat everything including film algae I scrape off the glass.

Mine also are masochists that like to try to eat bristle worms lol!

Usingthejohn · Jul 30, 2014

i'll watch the aiptasia population over the next couple days; i may also pick up another 10 this weekend just to try them out till i can find a filefish.

igotcorals · Jul 30, 2014

Try the mojano/ apiptasia zapper. My buddy has one and it works real good melts them right away with minimal chance of releasing spores. It's like $100 I think

Usingthejohn · Jul 30, 2014

Riblet said:

Pm sent

Aiptasia sucks.

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