CBB question

marie · #1 03-21-2008, 03:18 PM

For all of you that have tried a cbb, How long did it take before the fish started eating aiptasia?
Mine started eating mysis within 24hrs of being in quarantine but hasn't even looked at any aiptasia.

hmmm, maybe its not really a copperband, maybe its a damsel in disguise

kaboom · #2 03-21-2008, 03:30 PM

CCB is not a good remedy for aiptasia, if anything they will help spread the dawn thing. Some will eat it and some will never touch the stuff. IME, the ones that did eat, made a mess and would never completely destroy the entire aiptasia causing it to spread and regrow more babies. I find peppermint shrimps to be a very effective method of irraticating these buggers. I never had any real sucess with just a few shrimps. The trick is to get like a dozen or more and it will almost be certain to clean it out.

fencer · #3 03-21-2008, 03:46 PM

When I had one, it took about a week. It was getting mysis as well

michika · #4 03-21-2008, 05:18 PM

It was a few weeks after mine started eating prepared foods that it started to look at aiptasia. Mine was hit and miss on when it would eat it.

skylord · #5 03-21-2008, 05:30 PM

I have two.....the first went after the aiptasia about a week after putting her into the tank. I think. Problem is....she doesn't appear to go after them at all. I will add a rock I want cleaned up and will look at the rock several times a day and nothing changes. Then I will notice one or two that don't look so good, kinda limp. Then they're gone. I think she slowly kills them before she eats them.

Second one...only eats mysis....and only the frozen J&L has. Period. If I could catch him he would end up in my frag tank.

Scott

marie · #6 03-21-2008, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by kaboom

CCB is not a good remedy for aiptasia, if anything they will help spread the dawn thing. Some will eat it and some will never touch the stuff. IME, the ones that did eat, made a mess and would never completely destroy the entire aiptasia causing it to spread and regrow more babies. I find peppermint shrimps to be a very effective method of irraticating these buggers. I never had any real sucess with just a few shrimps. The trick is to get like a dozen or more and it will almost be certain to clean it out.

I have 6 peppermint shrimp and I think they are keeping the baby aiptasia population down but nothing is touching the juvenile/adult population. I figured if the copperband could severly damage the larger ones the peppermint shrimp could come and clean up the mess.

Even if the CBB never eats aiptasia he is a very cool fish with lots of fishy personality and will be a great addition to the main display when he finally makes it there

fishoholic · #7 03-21-2008, 11:30 PM

Our CBB ate mysis right away but took about a week to start eating aptasia and about a month to get rid of it all. I'm happy to say that our tank is now free of aptasia, unfortunately our CBB has now started to pick on our pom pom xenia, our zoos and a clam

Fortunately there is a big colony of xenia so damage to that has been minimal, and we were able to move our zoo rocks and the clam to our frag section of our sump. The first peppermint shrimp we had ate all the aptasia but after he died we've tried about 10 more peppermint and none of them ate it.