What is your best Aiptasia muncher?

[Willito]

I have a couple rocks that are starting to show these pesty #$%$^. Was just wondering what people are using that is affectively killing em and is an ongoing success.

[danny zubot]

I had a copper band butterfly that ate aptasia, but I would usually boil them because its more fun for me.

[bluetang]

got a pepermint shrimp as I had about 100 aptasia. It took a week to get him started but he cleaned the tank out in about 4 days

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Could I borrow him/her? :biggrin: I got some nice aiptasia snacks for it.

Anthony

[DanG]

I had 2 peppermint shrimp, now I'm down to one. Neither of them seems to care for the 2 aptasia in my tank. I've read so much about peppermint shrimp and everything is saying it's completly hit or miss.

[Willito]

How do you distinguish which peppermint is the real macoy? This maybe my problem in the past, not obtaining the right specie. Maybe you have a few pointers to how I can identify the right one for the job. what should I look for in terms of appearance wise.

I know which specie to obtain, just don't know how to differentiate them apart without having them both of the readily availble in the pet store. :confused:

[Quinster]

I had the same result as DanG, my 2 pepermint shrimp didn't take a liking to my aptasia. I saw a thread somewhere that people were using the water they use to rinse/defrost their frozen food (mysis or brine shrimp) and mix Kalk in it after they pour it off. The aptasia sence a feeding and suck the kalk soaked water up and quickly melt away. Other than that I use a mix of boiling saturated Kalk to blast em....but am thinking about trying this new method!

[marie]

I used a very thick kalk paste to good effect :biggrin:

[golden69_ca]

inject with ph up from a hydroponic store melts them away over night . :biggrin:

[Willow]

i used some joes today and it worked great.

[Willito]

Injection is nice if you can get access to each individual polyps, but in a highly stocked tank it's nearly impossible without rearranging the entire tank.

[EmilyB]

Red Sea Butterfly.

[vanreefer]

"PEPE" :biggrin: ( girlfriend does most of the naming :redface: ) the peppermint shrimp took out 50+ in less than a week...
I think their rostum (sp.) or nose is the way to distinguish a pepper vs non pepper real peppermint shrimp have a shorter rostum than the fakers... not much help unless you have them side by side though.
Hope this helps.