how to control aiptasia in fowlr

[buraccha]

hi everyone,

its been about 5 months that im fighting against a big problem of aiptasia that is invading and covering all my live rocks.:mad2:

i tried to control it with aiptasia-x and joes juice but nothing seems working and they continue to multiply.

Some will suggest to put peppermint shrimps or filefish, but i have a trigger fish.

I would like to know if their other solutions to fight against big aiptasia bloom.

I was thinking to put a butterfly fish (raccoon or auriga), but i dont know if its a hit or a miss, or maybe change all my live rocks to new rocks.:uhoh3:

what do you guys think? if you have some advice plz send a reply.

thank you

 

[alton]

Berghia Nudibranches, as long as you don't have any wrasses

 

[buraccha]

dont you think that the trigger may eat the nudi?

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

why not an aiptasia eating filefish? I got one and it wiped them out in a week or two. of course it started eating my acans after but since you dont have coral it should be no problem.

as for the trigger, how big is it? maybe you can try a large filefish


also what about a copperband butterfly??

 

[caribfan]

I think your best bet is going to be a butterfly, I'd recommend both. What kind of a trigger do you have

 

[snorvich]

Easy. Racoon butterfly is guaranteed.

 

[buraccha]

i have a picasso trigger

 

[ajherrera2]

I have an aptaisia eating filefish and a sargassum trigger with no problems. The filefish wiped out my problem.

 

[Rustyprop]

Take out the fish and put into QT. Put in peppermint shrimp

 

[alton]

dont you think that the trigger may eat the nudi?

Berghias for the most part are nocturnal.

 

[caribfan]

Butterfly fish, hands down. Berghia are expensive and I'm not positive they work. I put six in a little cube that had aiptasia and I never saw them and still have aiptasia.

I had a few aiptasia in my 240 fowlr and have 8 butterflies in there-0 aiptasia now.

 

[buraccha]

which butterfly you guys suggest me?

 

[caribfan]

I could be wrong, but I would guess almost all of them would knock the problem out. Racoons are supposed to be good, I don't own one though. Is there one you like in particular?

 

[Megistos]

Stop wasting money on Joe's Juice, Aiptasia-X, etc. You can make a thick slurry of pickling lime and it will be just as effective at about 2% of the cost.

 

[buraccha]

im thinking maybe for a racoon, auriga or klein's?

 

[alton]

Not sure how much you want to spend but Red Sea Raccoon Butterflies are awesome looking

 

[nirvanaandtool]

Klein's Butterfly did the trick for me. It's not as much of a looker as some of the other BFFs but it is still a pretty fish IMO.

 

[Wonton Soup]

Why not let them grow? They're only really a nuisance if you have coral and they start killing it.

If you're killing them off just because everyone else does then that's a foolish reason.

If you don't like the way they look then that's reasonable and completely understandable.

In reality they are filter feeding a little extra for you.

I tend to think aiptasia just get a bad wrap all around for only one specific reason. In a FOWLR you don't have that problem.

 

[buraccha]

i just want to control the population, because when you have beautiful pink rocks and they turn all covered in brown its looks a little ugly.

but honestly, having a few of those aiptasia doesnt bother me

 

[Scubaken]

I have to a agree, so long as you don't have dozens of them, why not just let them do their thing ?