Looking for berghia nudibranches for my Aiptasia problem

[daniella3d]

I tried 2 peppermints and they did not do a thing for me. They were the real peppermint, not the cammel. It is also expensive to try peppermint.

A filefish is out of the question. I have a purple hornet polyp that I am battling to save and it's recovering now and producing babies, so the last thing I want is a filefish eating them and I bet it would be the first thing that a filefish would eat in the tank. Murphey's law.

So now I am doing this with Aiptasia X. For the pumps, I had put nets to cover my pumps when I had my black velvet and it was working well. My black velvet was tiny when I first got it.

I could probably take care of the large one with aiptasia X, which I have been doing anyway but it's the small ones that are growing within zoanthids colonies that I am having problem with. Too small to catch with Aiptasia X and I cannot let them grow in my zoanthids because by the time they get large enough my zoanthids will be dead. That's a pain.

How do the nudibranch work for getting rid of the small aiptasia that are in between zoanthids? Are they able to walk on zoanthids polyps and do that job?

Originally Posted by reefwars

i would go peppermint shrimp long before i go nudis again. in the end after adding about 50 babies to my tank it was the filefish who cleaned them right out, even in a small tank with lots of zoas and palys to eat my filefish barely touched a thing.


because of my eel,tank size and number of aiptasia i was dealing with these were my only 2 options if i wanted to keep my rock.

[monocus]

i'm breeding them right now-selling them for $14 each-a book to check out breeding berghia is by dane banger-lots of useful info-especialy his banger breeders.i modifyed his breeders by using a 5 and 10 gal aquariums-my set up is under $150 with 2 30 gal sumps 3 breeders and an aptasia tank.they are almost no work at all-just water top ups and feeding the aptasia and nudies