How many currently have aiptasia in their seahorse tanks?

[sugartooth]

For how long and have they injured your horse yet?
I just saw one in my tank, I have peps in there and thinking about adding more. But I'm worn out from yanking out all my live rock to go bristleworm hunting and now feel like I just want to add a copperband in there permanently.

I've never heard of a copperband in with seahorses. Has anyone done it? These fish are incredibly docile and are regularly bullied unless in an ultra peaceful tank.
This is a dedicated tank but now considering adding something to it.
Thanks in advance for the input.

 

[crazedpuffer]

I'd give it a shot. I've seen seahorses with long horned cowfish so a copperband should be fine.

 

[pledosophy]

IME a aiptasia killed one of my 6" reidi seahorses. JME

I'd go the peppermint route myself. IMO I don't think a CBB is safe with seahorses. JMO

 

[sugartooth]

Thanks for the input. Pled, can you tell me a little bit more why you feel the CBB would not be suitable? Do you feel the copperband will pick at the horses?

 

[pledosophy]

I think the swim patterns would be a problem. I also think there would be some aggresion issues. IMO

That said the Aquarium f the Pacific did have a CBB in there seahorse tank for awhile. Just not something I would do myself.

IME peppermint shrimp are pretty good at aiptasia control.

As much as I hate aiptasia, probably more then most since I watched it kill one of my seahorses ( I actually saw it and could do nothing) I just wouldn't do a CBB myself.

JMO

 

[captainandy]

I just ordered some Berghia nudibranchs from www.saltyunderground.com

Hope this does the trick. Peppermints are hit or miss IMO and they love to steal mysis.

 

[mrme]

i did the same thing captainandy, personaly mine did the trick for a while, but due to a tank crash, they died and the aiptasia kept going.

What did the trick for me was a recticced butterfly fish, the copperband i tried didn't work either, or the pepperment shrimp, or the joes juice. LOL
But this damn recticced butterfly fish did, i didn't even get him for that reason ! arghh..
This was all after the tank crash and after losing countless corals, to aiptasia and the crash, and also loseing three of my precious reidi.. stressed and killed by the aiptasia, and then finnaly the tank crash.

 

[sdietz2469]

mrme
what size tank did you have the horses and the butterfly fish

 

[Duddly01]

I keep a couple of peppermint shrimp with my horses. They seem to do a good job on all of the rocks but my horses favorite perch. occassionally I have to use joe's juice to get rid of one on there. I only had one shrimp in there once, and within days of it dieing (I still don't know how or where he went for sure) I had aiptasia all over the place, that is one of the main reasons I always keep two at a time now. Once you have it it seems to never go away completely.

 

[kg4izw]

I have had a 100% success rate in ending all aiptasia in both of my tanks. I dont even have to remove the rocks. All I do is boil some r/o water, suck it into a syringe and push it slowly onto the aiptasia. The aiptasia will immediately shrink up so small that you can barely see it, but keep the water flowing. When the syringe is empty, I fill it once again and hit to one more time to make sure I got it. The surrounding corals usually shrink back for the rest of the day, but are fine the next. Unfortunately, the coraline algae in the immediate area dies. A couple of hours after treatment, the aiptasia area looks like the site of a small nuclear explosion.
But hey, the aiptasia is gone. Plus there are NO harmful chemicals released into your tank.