apastasia good for something?

[spamreefnew]

i read something about apastasia in a fuge/sump making a great filter? is there anything to this?

 

[snorvich]

I use them in one chamber of my refugium (the first) as a filter. I don't know if they add value or not, but it does not seem to hurt.

 

[aaron1987]

I've heard this, too. I haven't seen anything to verify it, though; it's always just been anecdotal or hearsay.

 

[clayspst]

if i remembe right there is an article about this on melev's reef. but if i am wrong pm me and i will find it for you.

 

[snorvich]

All I know is that mine have gotten huge.

 

[kgross]

They can make a good mechanical filters in that they capture everything that they can for food. But I do not suggest it, they can spread into the main tank.

Kim

 

[spamreefnew]

i have one huge one in the sump and about 3 tiny ones in main display. i have never seen them hurt anything,,,,but i dont have any sps ,,,i have had the same # of them for about 3 years now. do they just kill sps corals? i have heard horror stories and have heard that one good thing about them ,,,just looking for the truth

 

[kgross]

They have a very strong sting. I have seem them damage LPS and soft corals as well. I have seen them in the middle of a zoanthid colony, and the zoas around the aiptasia are all closed down.

Kim

 

[Elan L.]

Anthony Calfo wrote in his Book of Coral Propogation, A Large population of intentionally cultured Aiptasia in a sump or leading to the sump, serve as effeicient, living mechanical filters with their stinging cells grabbing organic particles from the water.

 

[EnderG60]

yup, but xenia or GSP can do almost as good a job and can be harvested and sold.

 

[Posidion]

theres prob somthing to the filter madness, but when they get out of my plumbing and into a tank they must die. Their kind of like insects and field mice, will survive un harmed as long they stay where they belong. Out side of my space!!

 

[Henryreef]

I was thinking if you put a UV sterilizer in the return it would kill the aptasia so there would be no risk for them colonizing your display tank.

 

[kgross]

But you will also be killing everything else that moves from the sump to the tank via the return, pods etc.

Kim

 

[ryan115]

I believe Calfo also stated in Coral Prop. that aiptasia could be used as a natural filter for ich, as they would pull early life stages out of the water before they could settle on the fish.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14057744#post14057744 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Henryreef
I was thinking if you put a UV sterilizer in the return it would kill the aptasia so there would be no risk for them colonizing your display tank.

UV won't kill an Aiptasia passing by it

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14049860#post14049860 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EnderG60
yup, but xenia or GSP can do almost as good a job and can be harvested and sold.

Xenia and GSP don't remove large particulates (Aiptasia does)

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14058256#post14058256 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kgross
But you will also be killing everything else that moves from the sump to the tank via the return, pods etc.

Kim

not true

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14048750#post14048750 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Elan L.
Anthony Calfo wrote in his Book of Coral Propogation, A Large population of intentionally cultured Aiptasia in a sump or leading to the sump, serve as effeicient, living mechanical filters with their stinging cells grabbing organic particles from the water.

truth!

I just realized we're in the advanced forum. Holy smokes.

 

[kgross]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14068348#post14068348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
not true

I have to ask you what would survive. If you had a high enough zap dosage to kill a floating aiptasia, what other common critters would be able to make it through the UV unit?

Kim

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

UV kill rate depends on several things: wattage, flow rate etc.