Need a fish for aptaisia

[caribfan]

Are these reef safe.

Agreed on the hit or miss. I have one in with a bunch of zoas and a clam and he hasn't messed with any of my corals.

Aiptasia is gone though.

 

[stravo71]

Wellp I just went to the lfs here in lancaster pa and got me one. Here goes nothing. He is pretty big also. Look out aptaisia here comes your undoing I hope. Thanks for the help and ingo guys

 

[nuxx]

Could always try some Berghia Nudibranch.

More than likely will die when the aiptasia is gone, so you'd want to see if you could give them to somebody else with an aiptasia problem.

 

[skiwez]

Good luck, keep us posted. I was ok with it eating acans... More.of a.fish guy, that is building a reef around fish I want as apposed to adding fish around my reef

 

[ThRoewer]

The issue with Aptasia eating fish is that they are unable to completely eradicate them - even if a Chelmon would eat them, his snout is still not long or thin enough to get everything. And for Aptasia to come back only a little piece needs to remain left.
Shrimp are better equipped to get into small holes and cracks.
Best are the snails as they can truly wipe them out.

 

[auntiecookie]

I have a copperband on my tank and he's been cleaning out the aptesia since day one plus he's taking frozen foods too
Where is you location ?

 

[stravo71]

I have a copperband on my tank and he's been cleaning out the aptesia since day one plus he's taking frozen foods too
Where is you location ?

Pennsylvania. Do you have coral in your tank. I'm having issues with this file fish nipping my red blast merleti and my geeen staghorn acropora. Taking him back sat morn and might get a copperbanded instead. Dont know. If I can get some big peppermint that be awesome. But it seems stores around here only get micro ones. Anyone else on here have a copperbanded in there tank with any kind of corals

 

[swally]

Only ptoblem I would have doing that is the coral that are encrusted to the rocks

Agree there. My rock was bought second hand and put in a tank on its own so I could check and eliminate any pests before I used it.

 

[johnike]

Raccoon Butterfly.
Guaranteed.

 

[BrianD]

Raccoon Butterfly.
Guaranteed.

Yep.

 

[jraker]

get a filefish. they work great.
my peppermint shrimp has also controlled it, but you need to get a lot of them

 

[Dkuhlmann]

The problem with a file fish is that they also will eat corals.

 

[Giovanni]

Matted file fish works for me.

+1

I had a major problem and this little girl took care of it. Model citizen. I even pull aiptasia from my sump from time to time to give her a treat!! Here is the best $29 I ever spent in reefing.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Sweet, I have heard the file fish also eats other corals,

 

[Lucky Lefty]

I have a copperband with a lot of LPS, softies and a couple pieces of sps. He hasnt touched anything aside from a piece of gsp, and I'm not even sure it was him (I spotted my desjardini eating some xenia not long so so it may have been him). I have 5 or so different pieces of acan, including a huge colony of acan enchinata and he's pays them zero mind.
He ate every single aiptasia, and including the tiny ones in the sand bed, there had to be between 50 - 100 of them. He even got the ones tucked tight under the rocks. Wiped them out in a couple weeks, maybe shorter.
I'm actually leaving the aiptasia in my overflows so they still reproduce.. just more cbb food.
You have to find a cbb that is actively hunting and eating. If you come across one that isn't scanning the sand and rocks, don't waste your time or money.