Aptasia Experiments

[saltyunderground]

Pico, if you are suggesting peppermint shrimp and Berghia, the shrimp will eat the Berghia if they find them. Not a good combination.

 

[BJCooper]

I also have had aptasia problems....forgot about peppermints....dang. My best solution was a Orange Butterfly (Kleins). Little bugger wipes them right out. Problem is though, that while he will leave most of the corals alone....an open brain is just plain labelled "lunch". Ugh.

 

[Pico Keeper]

I had bergias and a couple peppermints to clean up about 40 lbs of live rock. The didn't bother each other.. But maybe cus the peppermints where little?? I used begia verricicornis i think. I think the bergias where breeding alot in the rock cooker.

I had the tank curing rock, and i kalked all the big aiptasia I could find after feeding them, then waited for my water levels to get back to normal and I added the shrimps and nudibranches.

 

[WhatIgot]

old thread, but I'm bumping it as this was very helpful to me.

 

[BlastoEric1589]

Look, there are a million ways to "kill" an aiptasia... as soon as anyone ACTUALLY figures out a GOOD way of killing them, we wont need forum posts like this to debate what chemical works the best. (IODINE IODINE IODINE IODINE) Inject iodine directly into the stem of those little buggers and they wont have a good chance, but you can only do that once a week or maybe twice... its gunna take time bro... or just kill everything... cant take the easy way out of this one

 

[Heinz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7596173#post7596173 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Carp1959
unless somehow i got all males when i collected like 20 of them the don't like each other for the most part. Had them in a smaller tank to see which ones would survive before throwing them in to the 55 and they constantly chased each other around . If there is a way to sex them i would like to know. I have a spare Hex tank that i could use to try to breed them



Justin

i know this is a old thread,

but i always thought you could only keep one Scartella Cristata in a tank, if you put two they will fight till one is dead

has anybody experience the same ?

that would also explain, what you saw in your tank with 20, i can only imagen that all died and only one survived,

was that the case ?

 

[drstupid]

mr. wilson, doesn't the copper end up in your rock and substrate forever?

 

[Muleball39]

If you were to take the rock out of the tank, and left it outside, how long would it take to kill the aiptasia? Could you bake the rock and kill it?

 

[mr.wilson]

You can microwave the rock for 30 seconds. It will kill anything full of water, like aiptasia or plankton, leaving coraline algae. I know one person who did quite a few rocks using this method successfully.

 

[tspors]

Inject each with .5ml of Sodium Hydrixide (Drano). Never to be seen again! Does not harm water. Moderation of course.