What are my options??

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Originally Posted by Coralgurl

Not sure when it happened, but yes, he did finally start clearing them out. Not gone yet, but the DT looks so much better than it did!!! He eats frozen too so he's getting fat!!!!

I tried the beghia's quite a while ago, but it didn't work out. I had a brown filefish previously and it didn't touch anything. This green guy has been the bomb!!! Maybe try a different one??? I won't be able to give mine up as my tank was so neglected, I have them everywhere, so he'll just have to keep things under control!!

How long ago did you try the berghia? I wouldn't rule them down for the count just yet. I've tried Berghia three times. The first time took nearly 3 full months before I started noticing anything. I thought they hadn't worked and were all dead. Then one day I noticed a conspicuously large aiptasia was gone. It was another week before I noticed one of the nudis in the tank. Tank was aiptasia free a month later, and I had hundreds of nudis.

Second time 10 went in and three months later nothing, so I bought 10 more from a local reefer. Two months later and still nothing and I thought they hadn't worked, until I realized my sump was aiptasia free and there were hundreds of berghia in it.

Problem with berghia is that they almost inevitably miss a single teeny tiny nem hidden in a crack somewhere before they all starve to death, so a year later you're often right back where you started.

anyway, my point is that I think you should examine your rocks with a flashlight at night if you're seeing the nem's disappearing. I'm sure the filefish is helping, but he might not deserve all the credit. Berghias seem like they've failed utterly until they hit critical mass (i.e. they eat aiptasia faster than they can spread), but once that scale is tipped, aiptasia populations crash pretty spectacularly.