Aiptasia Question

[johandagentile]

and it will eat every bit of the aptasia i can atest to this i once had in excess of 500 aptasia in my 250 one file fish rubbed em out in a couple weeks and he is a fat happy fish now

very very true!!

 

[elder luis]

Aiptasia is a very common trouble, maybe the main trouble, next to cyanos.

I would say, the question is not IF you take them, but WHEN you take them. It´s only a matter of time!

So, I agree to the post:

you can get some peppermint shrimps to help battle the aitapsia.

 

[KCombs]

You've obviously never seen a tank completely overrun with them. They are enemy #1 in all my years of reef keeping. No other pest has given me more headaches over the years than aiptasia. They are common, resilient, prolific, and have a nasty sting. Do not take them lightly, or you'll have an aiptasia tank. Treat even a single one seriously and aggressively.

Also, they easily survive rock cooking. I speak with experience on that one.

I've had a few reef tanks over the years: aiptasias in all...
what I've noticed is feeding certain foods can make the populations explode, but OTOH seems certain mushrooms and palys can out sting them or (if I'm offbase here) at least keep them at bay