Carpet anemone moved to area with aptasias

[Tango451]

Are aptasias strong enough to damage a carpet anemone or is the carpet anemone strong enough to withstand aptasia stings?

It's a new carpet and it's the first time he's moved since a week. Will he just move away from the aptasias if he doesn't like them or should I try to manually move an adjacent rock with a lot of them at the bottom of the rock/ try apt asks x or calcium hydroxide (one is right behind the edge of its pedal)

 

[Tango451]

Aptasia x*

 

[Tango451]

Ah and I believe the carpet is a haddoni (80% sure). 20% chance it's a gig. It's a small carpet

 

[thedasher]

I put 2 peppermint shrimp my tank and they got rid of the aiptasia in a week

 

[Tango451]

Is it possible for peppermint to go after the carpet too? Especially because it is small (I think I heard this from someone a long time ago, but I don't remember the kind of anemone they had)

 

[m0nkie]

Is it possible for peppermint to go after the carpet too? Especially because it is small (I think I heard this from someone a long time ago, but I don't remember the kind of anemone they had)

I have a baby Haddoni and it killed my cleaner shrimp that was twice its size.. peppermint shrimps will be goners if they try to touch it. sexy shrimps are fine.

 

[OrionN]

those injection tend to flow around a bit and it can be big problem for your carpet. Picture of the carpet?

 

[Tango451]

Here is a pic from right now, tonight I'll get a better one when then halides are on (tank is on reverse cycle for right now)


I'm going to check for peppermint shrimp and see what happens. I am just hoping the carpet can't be hurt by the aptasias

 

[Tango451]

Put in 3 peppermint just now, hopefully they can get rid of most of the aptasias. Still worried about the aptasias near the little carpet (they might not even get to them and just go for the others)

 

[Tango451]

Here are pics. (My clowns laid their eggs on the front of the tank so I'm not cleaning algae - attached a picture)

It's the small one I'm worried about- you can see all the aptasia near him

 

[Tango451]

Whoops forgot to attach the small carpet pic

 

[OrionN]

How bid is your tank? You can use Copper Banded Butterfly. They clean out your aptasias in no time.
Peppermint shrimp never work well for me. I guess I feed the tank too much. I live in Corpus Christi so a friend of mine went out to the Jetty and help me catch over 100 peppermint shrimp. I put 25 in the tank, and this did not do much to the aptasias population. Eventually they slowly disappeared over time. I may see one in the middle of the night now and then but not for a while now. My Harlequin Tusk may have something to do with it. in the last 6 months but they were disappearing way before thant.

 

[LesMartin]

I had peppermint shrimp for Aiptasia but as soon as they cleared them up they turned their attention onto a small malu that I had. The malu was ok during the daytime but soon after lights out the peppermints would appear and head straight for the malu. It would ball up in defence but they still picked at it. Eventually I managed to remove the peppermints. I didn't have a haddoni at the time so cannot say whether they would have had a go at that too.

 

[Tango451]

Hmm that is what I'm scared of.

They are in a 190. I might add a copperband if they don't work. So far I have seen two baby aptasia floating around that I pulled out (might have something to do with them) and haven seen them at all except I saw one of them at night. I may add a long nose hawk (they eat them right?) once the aptassias lessen up

 

[OrionN]

Aptasia will colonized the plumbing of our systema nd you will never get them out. Once you have aptasia, you will alway have them unless you change all these (or dry out these plus over flow plus.....
the is no visible aptasia in my DT withmy CBB, but they will hsow up on smy sump, overflow and frag tank. I often grow them and the put them in my tank for my CBB to eat.

 

[phender]

In answer to your main question. The aptasias will not bother your carpet. The carpet will kill or at least drive your aptaisa into hiding.