Thank you for the complement smith! I forgot the bulb combination but I remember there being a ATI blue plus for sure, just can't remember the second one. The tank mostly has common coral, the red patches are either red cyno or red macro algae, they each take up half of the red in the picture
As far as the aptasia goes; I was thinking of using aptasia-x on all the ones I see; after that I'll add in several peppermint shrimp to take care of the rest.
In my older living room tank(taken down before christmas last year), I tried all sorts of methods: peppermint shrimp , aptasia eating filefish, concentrated kalkwassar, aptasia-x , and even this -(WARNing CRinge worthy and loud audio)---->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h67BV1wHHzU
Kalkwasser, aptasia-x, and aptasia zapper had similar results -> while killing the few I could target, there were many more and I couldn't keep up with the rest of the aptasia multiplying.
The filefish I got was a complete miss, it never touched the aptasia at all, but I decided to keep this odd looking fish until one day I came back from college to see a couple of bones sucked in my wp-40 and bones scattered over the sandbed........
I had around 5 I the first batch of peppermint shrimp, keep in my my tank was 140g, so I lost all of them in almost the first day.
I got the second batch in reefapalooza one year, this time I got 12, but eventually all I could see was one. I think was this one peppermint that took care of all my aptasia!!!!!!!
PS, the 140g living room tank was the first time I encountered aptasia, I got it from some live rock I purchased on through this forum......(never again)
In the nano the aptasia probably came from frag plugs..........
- Victor