Aptasia help

Foxchase · Nov 12, 2021

So after almost 3 years of never having aptasia in my tank, i finally got some in from a certain big vendor whose is 3 letters (starts with a T) missed it I guess.

Now i have some growing in between some zoa's and acans pissing them off. What do y'all recommend to try to get rid of them?(If not kill them off the corals without also killing the corals)

I have wrasses so nudibranchs and shrimps would just turn into a snack. And too many trachys/scoly/acantho/lobo to risk getting a filefish that could turn on me.

DYIguy · Nov 12, 2021

Foxchase said:
So after almost 3 years of never having aptasia in my tank, i finally got some in from a certain big vendor whose is 3 letters (starts with a T) missed it I guess.

Now i have some growing in between some zoa's and acans pissing them off. What do y'all recommend to try to get rid of them?(If not kill them off the corals without also killing the corals)

I have wrasses so nudibranchs and shrimps would just turn into a snack. And too many trachys/scoly/acantho/lobo to risk getting a filefish that could turn on me.

Do you have peppermint shrimp- small ones may not get them but older ones should- chemicals are never my first choice and don't know much about this one but some use AptasiaX

Foxchase · Nov 12, 2021

DYIguy said:
Do you have peppermint shrimp- small ones may not get them but older ones should- chemicals are never my first choice and don't know much about this one but some use AptasiaX

My wrasses would eat any shrimp i try to add in

MadReefer · Nov 12, 2021

You may have to treat chemically then. Maybe Aptasia-X

eholceker · Nov 12, 2021

Would try bergia nudibranchs even if you have wrasses.

ctg0209 · Nov 12, 2021

I’ve used peppermint shrimp and aptasia x but can never get them all. Maybe an aptasia eating filefish?

Foxchase · Jun 11, 2022

Reviving this thread bc I still have a severe outbreak of aptasia. I try to regularly get them all with Aptasia X which works for a few days and then it seems like they double.

I had a peppermint shrimp in my sump that ate all the Aptasia in the sump. I moved it to the display. I've seen it like once so it's either hiding or the wrasses got to it.

Foxchase · Jun 11, 2022

I picked up a biota Aptasia eating filefish from TSM today. It's been in the tank for about 2 hours and have seen it already test out several corals as well as taken several bites of a gorgonian. Giving it one last shot before sumping it.

Don't know what else to do. I'm losing my mind

MadReefer · Jun 11, 2022

Foxchase said:
I picked up a biota Aptasia eating filefish from TSM today. It's been in the tank for about 2 hours and have seen it already test out several corals as well as taken several bites of a gorgonian. Giving it one last shot before sumping it.

Don't know what else to do. I'm losing my mind

Feed it some mysis.

john90009 · Jun 11, 2022

Are you able to get the rocks out with the aptasia? If it’s not to bad when I get frags with them in it I put super glue on them lol. If they do decide to find another hole to come outta, glue that one shut.

Foxchase · Jun 11, 2022

john90009 said:
Are you able to get the rocks out with the aptasia? If it’s not to bad when I get frags with them in it I put super glue on them lol. If they do decide to find another hole to come outta, glue that one shut.

There's way too many. Otherwise I would

ole farny · Jun 12, 2022

i just hit a half dozen or so with a hypodermic needle and a kalk slurry yesterday. will report back. not sure it will work or if i even pierced every one before i injected the solution. i think used a quarter teaspoon of calcium hydroxide and about 50 ml of ro/di.

MadReefer · Jun 12, 2022

The size of your file fish aptasia can be an issue. I had large aptasia but a small filefish and he couldn't bite off big enough chunks so went after coral. I squirted the aptasia with lemon juice and it shrunk up and the filefish started eating it. It took care of a large majority but always a had a few of them popping up.

DYIguy · Jun 12, 2022

Saltyunderground and reeftown have Berghia nudis for sale

Foxchase · Jun 12, 2022

DYIguy said:
Saltyunderground and reeftown have Berghia nudis for sale

The shipping is like $100 is the problem

DYIguy · Jun 12, 2022

Foxchase said:
The shipping is like $100 is the problem

Sounds high, most ship for $40 or less. There's someone on Reef2reef that ships for $30 called Aiptaasia Hunter

jrswish1g · Jun 12, 2022

Peppermint shrimp always work for me, within 2 days any aiptasia on new frags are gone. I have a malanaruss wrasse too that goes after peppermint shrimp right as theyre put in but if they make it the initial beating they survive

Foxchase · Jun 12, 2022

DYIguy said:
Sounds high, most ship for $40 or less. There's someone on Reef2reef that ships for $30 called Aiptaasia Hunter

Yea the shipping is $100 on orders less than $99

Foxchase · Jun 12, 2022

jrswish1g said:
Peppermint shrimp always work for me, within 2 days any aiptasia on new frags are gone. I have a malanaruss wrasse too that goes after peppermint shrimp right as theyre put in but if they make it the initial beating they survive

That's interesting. I have a melanaurus and a yellow Coris that are the problem. Which is also why I haven't gotten berghia nudis

john90009 · Jun 13, 2022

I have seen a few small transparent ones just starting to pop out of some of my marco rock, I assume the aptasia came in on either macro or some biobricks I had cultured. In my other tank something just have been in there eatting. So far I have only seen two which I epoxied shut and will wait till they find new ways out. I also have a decent sized melenarus and worst case I will get about 10 peppermints to throw in at night and hope one is wise enough to only hunt at night.

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