ixouttheeyes
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For those that participated in this group buy, how are your BV doing?
Berghia Group Buy
- Thread starter Lightsluvr
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My 120 tank is clean of aiptasia.
My 180 is still covered, because I think my wrasses got the berghia I put in there...
The 4 BV I put in a breeding tank have produced over 20 juviniles that are voraciously consuming every aiptasia rock in I introduce in there. I plan to put them in the 340G tank when it is set up and keep the wrasses isolated in another tank until the BV are established...
LL
Amazing!
Amazing!
I was doing the water change in the 120G tank on Sunday. I was changing out filter socks and noticed something on the side of the PVC tubing down inside the sock... Upon examination, I found two very large, fat Berghia "doing the yin yang" and laying an egg strand on the PVC!!
I carefully swished them off into some saltwater, sucked them out with the turkey baster, eggs and all, and returned them to live rock near some aiptasia in the tank...
I had not seen Berghia in the 120 since I put them in there weeks ago... I just knew that Aiptaisa in the tank was disappearing at an amazing rate.
The moral of the story, be careful when you do your water changes... you might lose something you want to keep...
LL
Amazing!
I was doing the water change in the 120G tank on Sunday. I was changing out filter socks and noticed something on the side of the PVC tubing down inside the sock... Upon examination, I found two very large, fat Berghia "doing the yin yang" and laying an egg strand on the PVC!!
I carefully swished them off into some saltwater, sucked them out with the turkey baster, eggs and all, and returned them to live rock near some aiptasia in the tank...
I had not seen Berghia in the 120 since I put them in there weeks ago... I just knew that Aiptaisa in the tank was disappearing at an amazing rate.
The moral of the story, be careful when you do your water changes... you might lose something you want to keep...
LL
Having only gotten two I can assume they became snacks for inhabitants of my tank. If I was going to go this route in the future I would probably do 5+ in our 90 gal.
Aptasia actually spread rapidly and I had to get in there and dose directly to cut them down. I'll probably pick up a couple of peppermint shrimp again, they worked great until they ate up everything available.
Aptasia actually spread rapidly and I had to get in there and dose directly to cut them down. I'll probably pick up a couple of peppermint shrimp again, they worked great until they ate up everything available.
Cichlid-Dave
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Well ours died before they got into the tank. However I killed all the aptasia with a full fresh water flush in the tank!!!
If you order them again, you might think about putting a pair in saltwater in a clean, small salad container (like you get in a grocery store). Put a small aiptasia covered rock in there. Let them go to town and reproduce and start your own colony to supplement any losses you have in your DT.
I think I lost every Berghia I had in the 180G, because of the wrasses in there...but I don't know for certain. I haven't seen any in the 120G either, but the aiptasia is almost gone, so I assumed they were doing their thing... now that I spotted them is a filter sock doin' the hanky panky, I know they're still around...
Good luck.
LL
Fresh water?
Fresh water?
Dave -
I missed this note when you first posted it...
Did you dip your LR in fresh water (tap water or RO/DI?) or just fill the tank with fresh water?
Did you experience a cycle in your LR after the fresh water treatment? I'd like to do the same, but am afraid I would kill everything else in the rock, and cause a major cycle in the tank.
Tell me how you did it...
Thanks.
LL
Fresh water?
Dave -
I missed this note when you first posted it...
Did you dip your LR in fresh water (tap water or RO/DI?) or just fill the tank with fresh water?
Did you experience a cycle in your LR after the fresh water treatment? I'd like to do the same, but am afraid I would kill everything else in the rock, and cause a major cycle in the tank.
Tell me how you did it...
Thanks.
LL
