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Old 11-05-2011, 02:39 PM
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raccoon butterfly worked great for me but once the tank was clean he started eating corals
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Old 11-05-2011, 04:35 PM
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Berghia Nudibranches

I am starting to see more BN's in my Aptasia tank so they are successfully breeding. As they grow I will put them up for sale. I am willing to purchase small aptasia covered rocks.
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Berghia Nudibranches

I am starting to see more BN's in my Aptasia tank so they are successfully breeding. As they grow I will put them up for sale. I am willing to purchase small aptasia covered rocks.
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hey kevin i could sell u all my rock in my tank heres a video let me know name a price any one i need everything gone in my tank i am looking for 1100 for everything in the tank i will part out to
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Hey guys,

Just wanna chime in here about aptasia and what I believe is the best way to handle it. To keep large populations at bay I simply use an insulin needle and a concentrated solution of pH up/down (doesn't matter) The insulin needle, which can be purchased at any drug store for cheap, is a good way to give each anemone a pinpointed dose of pH up/down. What this does is immediately change the water parameters drastically but only in the little space you shot. The anemone shrivles away instantly. The pH shot quickly gets saturated in the water and is nowhere near enough to affect a good tank's buffering system. With that being said I still use caution and only do so many at a time. Obviously this is more of a prevention to an outbreak as you can zap them as you see them; trying to rid an entire tank of aptasia this way is painful and time consuming. I use peppermint shrimp to do the bulk of the work and the pH shots as a helper. There are two different types of peppermint shrimp, although I believe they look identical. The ones I use are called Lysmata Wurdemanni. I will tell you that they eat aptasia as a fact.. not as an aquarist who has had general good luck with them. But only if you get the right kind. The ones I order are listed as the name I mentioned. Most LFS may not know the difference or what type they have.
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Peppermint shrimp got rid of all my aiptasia in under 2 hours.
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I bought two of these (maybe not the right ones?) but they disappeared under my rockwork never to be seen again with the lights on. I did spot at least one under the rocks one night with a flashlight but after that nothing.

Currently back to the epoxy technique with varying degrees of success. Tempted to try a matted filefish but I'm too scared they'll eat my corals.
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Tempted to try a matted filefish but I'm too scared they'll eat my corals.
Mine doesn't touch any corals. I just removed a colony of pocci, and had a huge aptasia under it. Within a minute, the filefish was chowing down, removed the whole thing in an hour..
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