Berghia Nudibranchs?

KatanaRamirez

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Hi, I have a aiptasia infestation on some live rock I purchased and was thinking about getting a Berghia Nudibranch to clear them up my only concern is it starving after exhausting the food supply and was wondering if I'd be able to keep enough aiptasia in my sump or in a seperate tank to keep the Nudibranch going? How quickly do they eat the aiptasia? and how much aiptasia would I need to keep on hand to feed the little guy?
 
I borrowed my daughter-in-laws. It ate mine pretty quickly. When it was close to time to return it, I put it in a container with holes in my tank & put frags with aptasia in the container every other day. It ate it quickly. They will die when they run out of food so be sure you have enough or someone to pass it on to when it is done with your tank.
 
We tried this experiment 2 years ago by purchasing 3 aquacultured Bhergia Verrucicornis (actually, they're Aeolidella Stephanieae, but
anyway, the white fluffy aeolids who eat aiptasia). So we kept them
in a separate tank until they bred up to about 100 offspring before
releasing them into our then infested 55 gal tank. Took 'em about 6 weeks to clear the infestation. We then had to scramble to find homes
for most of them. We tried keeping a separate tank for breeding aiptasia for food but it's a very tricky process. This is a struggle against population dynamics - who's going to reproduce faster, the nudibranchs or the aiptasia. In theory you could make it work if you have a LOT of aiptasia set aside in another tank. But it's alot of work. This is an easier problem to solve with a small tank. Big tanks make it hard to find all the pests and predators.

If you only have a few rocks infested, I'd consider removing them from your main tank - put them in a smaller holding tank and introduce the berhies into them unti they eat all the aiptasia. Then give the berghies to new homes and don't return the original live rock to the main tank for several weeks (make sure no aiptasia survived....they're really hard to kill). Best of luck!
 
I have a question, berghia is toxic?
This is a small animal so easly can be sucked by the filter, this can kill the fishes in the tank?
Thanks
 
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