porolific aptasia anenomes
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Topic: porolific aptasia anenomes
Posted By: seahorse321
Subject: porolific aptasia anenomes
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 1:21pm
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I have a lot of aptasia in my tank i want to get rid of it but i dont
know how to start or prety much what to do. Would the best method
be to remove them by hand, poison them, or get some kind of fish?
Please and thankyou. |
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Posted By: Aquarium Creations
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 1:25pm
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copperband butterfly. ------------- Aquarium Maintenance,Consulting,Custom Built Glass Aquariums Rimless/Euro,24Hr Emergency Service 8015485201 Www.UtahAquariumDoctors.com [email protected] |
Posted By: seahorse321
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 1:28pm
| I tried a copper band it died 2 days after i got it. Are there any other fish that wuold eat aptasia? |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 1:46pm
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Peppermint shrimp. Buy four of them, and seriously you will have no aptasia in two weeks. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 3:50pm
| IMO - Every tank should include a peppermint shrimp or two for maintenance. They will definately take care of this problem. |
Posted By: seahorse321
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 5:17pm
| I'll try some shrimp and post in a few days if I can notice a difference in the anenome population. thanks |
Posted By: Simple
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 5:29pm
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Hello everyone,
What are they maintaining? Thanks, Chris ------------- Ascult� tot, dar nu crede tot. Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. |
Every tank should include a peppermint shrimp or two for maintenance.Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 5:56pm
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Baby Aptasia that you can't see, left over food, detritus built up in rock crevices. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: jacob_poly
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 7:19pm
I agree with the peppermint shrimp solution. They do a good job with baby aptasia. You might carefully have to take care of the larger aptasia by some other technique though. I wont recommend any here since the debate usually goes both ways on that.... . I have 7 peppermint shrimp at the moment and my aptasia is under control. Do I have a few? sure but the population is almost static.
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Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: January 23 2005 at 10:14pm
This is crazy talk in my opinion. How big is your aquarium? How many Aiptasia do you have? Although I do prefer peppermint shrimp as Aiptasia control, I have never seen them eradicate the Aiptasia in 2 week. Usually this will take a month or two for them to be eradicated. Depending on the size of your tank and the severity of the Aiptasia plague you may need many more then 4 peppermints. ------------- Jake Pehrson Murray http://coralplanet.com" rel="nofollow - coralplanet.com http://utahbeeranch.com" rel="nofollow - :) |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 24 2005 at 12:29am
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We also have Suzy. She has a Butterflyfish in a tank where she transfers rock temporarily just to get it cleaned of aiptasia. Talk to her about having her babysit some of your rock for a few days, Be sure to move rock in water following the procedure I recommend and often write about. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: seahorse321
Date Posted: February 03 2005 at 4:14pm
I Bought 2 ps and WOW! before there were tons of anenomes but now
i can count all that I have on my right hand alone. Thank you
pepper mint shrimp!
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: February 03 2005 at 4:49pm
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Seahorse321- Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: seahorse321
Date Posted: February 05 2005 at 12:16pm
The anenomes aren't gone but now there is only about 2 big ones and a
few of little ones left. I'm afraid I have to agree with Adam.
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Posted By: airteresa
Date Posted: February 05 2005 at 12:20pm
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I had an aptasia problem as well. I have one cleaner shrimp and I use the kalkwasser in a saringe method for the "big ones". Not necessarily recommending it. But it worked for me. There is not a single "visible" aptasia in my tank ------------- Aaron G. Taylor Richmond, (Cache Valley) Utah You can't swim with the big fish if you spawn like a guppy! |
Posted By: Biodork
Date Posted: February 07 2005 at 6:43pm
| Just adding my experience to the rest. I had aptaisia with my new rock and bought one PS. The PS is awesome. Its constantily running about the tank looking for food and its grown quite a bit now, so must be finding stuff. Mine is very personable too. It will come right up to the front of the tank as it makes its rounds, completely ignoring me. Today I held some flake food between two fingers at the top of the tank and within minutes it was at my fingertips munching away. Now I'm wondering what other cool tricks I can teach it :) Oh, and I forgot to add, I have no aptasia problem at all now in my 12g nanocube. One PS was all it needed. |
Posted By: bhaight
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 11:21pm
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I've been having an Aptasia problem and have added a couple PS and a Copper Band Butterfly. I've read some articles saying that once the Aptasia is gone the Copper Band will begin eating corals. Before I bought the butterfly I asked around and had several people tell me it would be okay having it in my reef aquarium. Does anyone here have any experience with Copper Bands and if so what was your experience in regards to your coral? ------------- Bill Haight You'll need a bigger boat. |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 12:19am
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Do you know the level of expertise of those that told you it would be okay? What coral do you have in your tank?
Butterflyfish in general will eat any coral polyp and will clean your tank of featherdusters as well. Sounds like you are seeking support that you made the right purchase. Sorry, but I suspect that your purchase may end up causing the demise of many beautiful tank inhabitants. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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Posted By: centipededesign
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 5:33pm
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yeah I got a CBB cause they are awesome looking but he ate all my
nassarius snails. he picks off a cerith here and there too. Ate all my aiptasia. He only eats on one coral which I dont care for so... oh well, but he is one sexy beast! Ryan ------------- 90Gallon Mixed Reef, 2x250 14k, ASM, 10G fuge, 20G sump, 2x 1100 rio seios. Kaysville, 801.603.6588. |
Posted By: Xacttech
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 7:03pm
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It's kind of sad... I've never had a chance to experience Aptasia in my
tank... I've had PS in my tank since the beginning. 
I figured at some point I would have aptasia... but it's been a year now, and I haven't. |
Posted By: davehuish
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 7:15pm
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peppermint shrimp, copperband, klein's b-fly, and kalkwasser injections if done carefully. you could always trade or give the cbb or kb to someone with the same problem. |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 7:16pm
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I think Mark is crazy. Oh but back to this topic... I think Mark is crazy. I'd say keep the copperband, they are wonderful in a reef tank. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: bhaight
Date Posted: July 17 2005 at 11:17pm
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I've had him over a week and so far I haven't seen him go after anything including aptasia. I have noticed though that there seems to be less aptasia and he/she seems to be one happy fish. I'll keep an eye out and if the CBB goes after something I don't want it to then I'll take action. ------------- Bill Haight You'll need a bigger boat. |
Posted By: centipededesign
Date Posted: July 18 2005 at 11:32am
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bhaight,
If you have trouble getting your CBB to eat or you want to give him a treat... go to smiths and get some clams, pop them open and stick them on the substrate, They love those things. -Ryan ------------- 90Gallon Mixed Reef, 2x250 14k, ASM, 10G fuge, 20G sump, 2x 1100 rio seios. Kaysville, 801.603.6588. |
Posted By: bhaight
Date Posted: July 18 2005 at 8:02pm
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So far he seems to be doing well. I had them feed him at the pet store before I bought him. Thanks for the hint though. I've heard that once the Aptasia is gone sometimes they will stop eating and die so I'll keep that in mind as things move along. ------------- Bill Haight You'll need a bigger boat. |
Posted By: shaggydoo
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 4:40pm
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I had a ps that knocked out all my aiptasia very quickly. Then about 5 months later he suddenly got a taste for my corals especially my mushrooms. He devoured a couple mushrooms and I caught him nipping at a few others, but I left him in to see if he would stop. No such luck. He ate 3 more mushrooms w/in a week and so I had to catch him and feed him to my open brain. Since he has been gone (about 2 weeks or so) I have noticed a few more tiny aiptasia heads popping up here and there. I will be getting another one to control this new outbreak but just a word of advice to keep an eye on your ps as they can suddenly turn and start eating the corals you want to keep. Overall though he kept the aiptasia under control very well. ------------- 60g LPS Cube |
Posted By: j's55
Date Posted: July 20 2005 at 10:21pm
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I noticed mine clean my RBTA when he is exporting waste... I first thought
they were eating him because they deflate whent they do that but the next day he was even bigger and happy- er ------------- Josh Zorn 45G reef lots of tropical plants Cell it 910 3924 |