Phantom Bannerfish

[Baboo11]

Does anyone have any experience with one of these?

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+25+2896&pcatid=2896

I am looking into something to control aptasia, that won't difficult to feed, but will also leave my corals alone.

I've got peppermint shrimp, no change. Awaiting a local berghia breeder to start selling again, but starting to get anxious as I watch more aptasia pop up.

I'm definitely open to suggestions! Thanks!

 

[cjk76]

I am looking into something to control aptasia, that won't difficult to feed, but will also leave my corals alone.

What you are looking for is on the shelf, not in a tank. Pretty much everything that eats aptasia can eat corals (considering that aptasia = anemone). I got 3 peppermints and they started eating my fungia/acan. All fish that eat aptasia also eat LPS or other corals. I got shrimp because after they ate my aptasia, I threw them in the sump.

If I were you, I would get the fish, but be prepared to sell it if I needed to.

 

[NYCBOB]

have u considered copperband buytterfly fish?

 

[nanoreefer1000]

If you want to get rid of aptasia get a matted filefish, easier to keep than copperband and smaller.

 

[Baboo11]

have u considered copperband buytterfly fish?

From reading about them, it appears to me like copperbands are difficult to get to eat. Also maybe more likely to nip at corals?

 

[Baboo11]

If you want to get rid of aptasia get a matted filefish, easier to keep than copperband and smaller.

This is one I looked at too, but seems like a roll of the dice...done have had good luck with them with aptasia, others not so much. Which actually, if prob true with any fish......:spin2:

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

What you are looking for is on the shelf, not in a tank. Pretty much everything that eats aptasia can eat corals (considering that aptasia = anemone). I got 3 peppermints and they started eating my fungia/acan. All fish that eat aptasia also eat LPS or other corals. I got shrimp because after they ate my aptasia, I threw them in the sump.

If I were you, I would get the fish, but be prepared to sell it if I needed to.

+1, if you haven't yet tried the chemical methods you should at least give em a shot. Joe's Juice I think is just calcium and hydrogen peroxide. I killed all the ones on my rocks, about 20, in ten minutes or so with it. Only a couple came back, and they were killed with a second try. They eat it, so if they retract when you try and inject it into them then you can just squirt it into the hole they go into.

 

[Baboo11]

I think I might give Joe's Juice a try....guess if the ones I can't see proliferate, I could just keep blasting them as they appear.....thanks!