swhobbie1
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Keep watch! I had 2 of these fish in different tanks. Both ate up the aiptasia then my softies and LPS.
"Reef safe" aiptasia eating fish of choice.
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Keep watch! I had 2 of these fish in different tanks. Both ate up the aiptasia then my softies and LPS.
CoralsAddiction
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I think butterfly fish can be very effective but I wouldn't chance it in a reef tank. Peppermint shrimp work great.
Aussieiniowa
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For reef safe peppermint shrimps and you prob want a few if you got alot
Northstar24
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Went through the same thing myself and tried a kliens butterfly. Very easy to take care of, and went through hundreds of aiptaisa in a few days. He did manage to eat Zoa's as well before I passed him on to another reefer
xrayjeeper83
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Well my file is in the sump, but not for eating my corals. I had noticed my one of my lions looked stressed out the other night so I watched closely and caught the file fish attacking my prized golden dwarf lion....he was quickly caught and kicked out
sfsuphysics
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Hmmm maybe I should rethink this fish control then, as I don't want to "pass off the fish" to anyone else. Bergai seem like the best method, but I'm guessing since they only eat aiptasia if they think there are no more they will starve, and if they missed a single one then they essentially became a big waste of money consider I have such a large system not sure I want to take that risk, although if the consume them slow enough such that they simply travel around the tank taking one a time... however that's a bit of a gamble with a large system what's their natural range? 2 feet? 3 feet? and one decides to go into the overflow and takes a ride to the sump they're essentially stuck there because there is no uppath except with risk of passing through the return pump.
xrayjeeper83
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My file didnt mess with anyone till after the aiptasia was all gone
usingthejohn
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So my understanding is that a CBB will likely die before even eating aiptasia? Or will it go after aiptasia beforehand?
sfsuphysics
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The problem with CBB is getting them to eat in the first place, I'm not sure if it's collection methods and/or stress induced with shipping, but they do eat more than aiptasia so it's not a matter of them running out of food sources.
Aquarist007
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How has your pearl scale been with other corals in the tank?
Sleepingtiger
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just like someone said, it depends on the fish. cbb got a bad rep for being finicky eaters. mine only ate clams at first, after 6 months or so, he is eating mysis, brine shrimp. He also cleaned out a very bad aptasia problem. I had aptasia as big as half dollar size. they were spreading quick as well. within a week of introducing the cbb, i never saw another aptasia.
TangingOut
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My small Klein's has finally started eating aiptasia. I'm so happy now after initially being let down when he was eating everything else besides aiptasia.
Great to hear, my recently introduced Kleini just absolutely eradicated quite the Aiptasia AND Majano problem I had.
Quite the picker though, I've been keeping the tank fed more than I ever have!
usingthejohn
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I may try a kleins next if the cbb doesn't work. However I have a few zoas and acans. Will he pick at those before aiptasia? Or before? I don't mind feeding heavy to try and prevent coral snacks....
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