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burrows14
10-21-2009, 01:51 AM
As the title says looking for a proven aptasia eater if you dont have one for sale maybe if you have seen a LFS with one instock you could let me know.

Thanks
Ray
originalozzyo
10-21-2009, 04:22 AM
Just saw a few small ones at j&l tonight
burrows14
10-21-2009, 06:06 AM
sweet thanks! hopefully they have them still on the weekend

cheers
Ray
mike31154
10-21-2009, 04:46 PM
A heads up in case you're not familiar, but this species has a poor survival rate in captive systems. Many starve to death because they won't take prepared food. Furthermore, they can be hit and miss with respect to aiptaisia. I'm speaking from personal experience since I've already made this error and had to watch a magnificent specimen starve in my tank. IMO these fish should stay in the ocean.
alyminny
10-22-2009, 02:41 AM
5-6 years ago I bought a Copperband to get rid of my Aptasia. It didn't eat any bit of it, but shortly became my favorit fish. It was used by LFS to eat only brine shrimps and I could not change his eating habits. I successfully kept him with brine shrimps soaked in Selcon and vitamins for almost 6 years, without being sick at all. It was in very good shape and fat. I got rid of my aptasia (a lot) with Joe's Juice and i did not have since.
Cheers
burrows14
10-22-2009, 04:01 AM
yeah ive heard they are hard to keep and are very picky im hoping i will luck out! im having troubles keeping on top of my aptasia problem. im using aptasia-X and have a couple small peppermints and were loosing the battle.

cheers
Ray
dsaundry
10-22-2009, 04:47 AM
Copper bands are one of the toughest fish to keep, imo. I bought one 8yrs ago and he did fine for about 4-5 yrs,every other one I have ever gotten has packed in in very quickly, and none of them ever ate aptasia. Hope you get lucky but I think the mortality rate is about 90%.
Tangman
10-22-2009, 02:03 PM
I've tried all the store bought aiptasia killers and the only one that worked for me , with limited success was the aiptasia-X, but what works even better is lemon juice and a syringe, just inject them with lemon juice and they don't come back
Barrie
10-22-2009, 09:55 PM
+1 for lemon juice and a syringe! Works great!
burrows14
10-23-2009, 04:07 AM
ill give the lemon juice a try this weekend. any other things i could try?
mike31154
10-23-2009, 04:18 AM
Yep, I just ran across a thread with a guy looking for aiptaisia infested LR in the buy, sell, trade forum. Apparently he's culturing Nudibranch Berghia and they gobble the stuff up faster than he can grow it. Check it out.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=57081
burrows14
10-23-2009, 04:33 AM
yeah i saw that earlier today. i have some really nice peices that i really dont wanna get rid of tho. i pondered it a lil but it would be hard to replace them.

cheers
Ray
mike31154
10-23-2009, 04:44 AM
Yes, but have you thought of trying a nudibranch in your system to take care of it? Must admit that I have no experience in that regard though, just going but what I've seen on the forums. No idea of any other implications/complications with adding a nudibranch. Perhaps someone with actual experience will chime in.
burrows14
10-23-2009, 05:22 AM
i have not done any research on them at all but all i know is that some of them are amazing looking. thats a very good idea tho! im going to look into that!

cheers
Ray
Thav.
10-23-2009, 07:32 AM
King Ed's has 3, they got them last night
burrows14
10-24-2009, 02:16 AM
awesome! thanks. i need to go to king ed's ive never been plus i would like to go visit john there because i bought my 120 off him. he's a great guy!

cheers
Ray