berghia predator??
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xxtriggermanxx
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can't ya get her when she's asleep?
T Diddy
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Thanks Snorvich...I'm waiting patiently for her to either hop into the trap, or to jump into the overflow as she sometimes likes to do. :hmm4:
38bill
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I added a dozen Berghias to my 215g that has 18 or so wrasse. A few months later all the Aiptasia were gone so the nudies had eluded the hungry fish. The only problem was that they were never seen again because once they run out of Aiptasia the nudies start wandering and are a easy target. Not a big deal but its nice to have some Berghia left over to sell or trade.
I had a pink face wrasse that was the devil to try and catch. I tried the barbless hook, and I swear that fish learned after that first time not to go anywhere near it. The net, forget about it. I made a bottle trap and tried it for days with no luck. I didn't feed the tank for a couple of days, then tried the trap one more time. I baited it with mysis, and left the room. Came back a few minutes later and it was in the trap. Sweet victory was MINE! My thoughts were that the wrasse knew exactly what I was up to and it became extremely skittish when I came near the tank. I lives happily now in my LFS FOWLR tank.
T Diddy
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I got sick of baiting the stupid trap everyday, so the berghias were placed in the tank and the rubbermaid refugiumish tub I've got. Tonight, she finally ventured into the trap without bait as I am sitting here. My question is what to do with the wrasse now. She was my very first fish and I don't want to get rid of her. If she goes in the rubbermaid, I still have to worry about her eating all of the nudies. Would it be cruel to banish her to the sump?
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I got sick of baiting the stupid trap everyday, so the berghias were placed in the tank and the rubbermaid refugiumish tub I've got. Tonight, she finally ventured into the trap without bait as I am sitting here. My question is what to do with the wrasse now. She was my very first fish and I don't want to get rid of her. If she goes in the rubbermaid, I still have to worry about her eating all of the nudies. Would it be cruel to banish her to the sump?
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lilalove
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Send her to me!!!! :lol2:
I've always wanted a Christmas wrasse. My LFS rarely gets them in though, and the times I've tried mail order, they've been DOA 3 different times. I gave up. :sad1:
T Diddy
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Thanks for the replies everyone. I put the wrasse in the sump which has some liverock. She isn't happy about it, but that is her new home for a while...I'll be happy to let her rejoin her friends in the display once the berghias have had a chance to reclaim the reef from aiptasia. She won't be going back to the LFS. She was my first fish (first day in fact), and has been through it all with me. Wish her luck in her solitude!
T Diddy
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I started to wonder if some of the berghias hadn't been eaten by hermits or the wrasse prior to her removal. It is possible that a few didn't make it, as some were very small. Two or three have been doing a good job in the rubbermaid tub, and I have also seen a few in the DT. They haven't made much of a dent yet, but they are getting bigger and fatter by the day.
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I started to wonder if some of the berghias hadn't been eaten by hermits or the wrasse prior to her removal. It is possible that a few didn't make it, as some were very small. Two or three have been doing a good job in the rubbermaid tub, and I have also seen a few in the DT. They haven't made much of a dent yet, but they are getting bigger and fatter by the day.
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Reefpestsolutio
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Nice im a huge fan of killing aiptasia love seeing them die...
