Your aiptasia experience/s? - Page 2

DJKoop · #1 03-08-2007, 11:40 PM

My son had a very bad infestaion of them a couple of months ago. He has a 35 gal. tank and nearly every surface was covered. Rock, overflow, pumps, you name it. He bought a Racoon Butterfly and within a month they were all gone. Now the fish nicely eats flake food and is doing great.

BC564 · #2 03-09-2007, 09:09 PM

I had some little ones poking out at the top of my rock....but I have 3 red legged hermit crabs which seemed to have fixed the problem. I didnt know they even liked the stuff.

Johnny Reefer · #3 03-10-2007, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DJKoop

..... He bought a Racoon Butterfly and within a month they were all gone. Now the fish nicely eats flake food and is doing great.

Hmmmm. Interesting. Particularly the eating flake food part. Good to know. Thanx for the input.

Cheers,

Scavenger · #4 03-12-2007, 08:47 PM

A little update on my aiptasia experience. As I posted above aiptasia and xenia just don't seem to be able to live in my tank.

Got a nice Acro this weekend and it had an apstatia on it's rock base.

Day One: Fully expanded
Day Two: Shrivelled up
Day Three: Gone, no where to be seen.

I don't know if my longnose (new addition) or another inhabitant ate it, but I didn't see a single critter go near it at all. I even did some after lights out peeping.

It's nice to be lucky in at least one area of the reefing hobby.
Maybe I should bottle and sell my waste water as Scav's Juice. LOL!

Cazoom · #5 03-13-2007, 12:09 AM

what you running your calcium at..?
kinda wonder if high calcium kill em???

CST · #6 08-22-2007, 05:40 AM

I've had few aptasia one of my tanks, but they mostly seem to attach to the peltata cualerpa. I cut the shoot it is on and *flush*.

I cant/wont risk the peppermint shrimp (Tank is home for my 2.5 foot snowflake eel) so I have had a copperband butterfly added. Seems to work great!

CST · #7 08-22-2007, 05:42 AM

I like the JJ in a pinch, but seems to make one dissapear and half dozen new ones show up the next day for me.....mystery.

marie · #8 03-08-2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by BMW Rider

I keep a couple of peppermint shrimp, they keep the aptasia under control. I do have a patch of mojanos that I need to nuke though.

This would be my post word for word

View Poll Results: Your experience with aiptasia (not a public poll):
Never ever got them.	23	18.11%
Been fighting them only recently.	13	10.24%
Been battling them for a while now.	26	20.47%
Comes and goes.	29	22.83%
Got them before, dealt with it, never had them since.	36	28.35%
Voters: 127. You may not vote on this poll