What will eat tulip anenomes?
- Thread starter H@rry
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Tomoko Schum
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I don't know what will eat the tulip anemone, but I have a question to you instead. What is that little pet of yours in the avatar?
Tomoko
Tomoko
H@rry
In Memoriam
Why a groundhog of course! Don't you know that groundhog's day is tomorrow?
Just shows to go you, that sometimes the most important creatures in our universe go unappreciated! Jeez!@!
Even now as we speak, I am raising my glass to the noble groundhog; without whom, the meteorological prophets would be clueless as to the dates for the upcoming spring!
(Tim, did you notice that I spelled meteorological correctly? Spell checker don't hurt at all either.)
Tomoko Schum
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Ah, so it is!
I did not know Troll could spell.
Tomoko
I did not know Troll could spell.
Tomoko
timrandlerv10
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LOL Harry cross-posting inside jokes!
FYI my dog eats tulips if you need him.
FYI my dog eats tulips if you need him.
H@rry
In Memoriam
I added 7 peppermint shrimp in September. I don't know how many are left but I did see 4 the other night. They don't seem to be doing anything with the tulips. I only feed once or twice a week so they should be hungry enough. I heard somewhere that they would eat tulips and decided last week that I might get 2 or 3 dozen and see what they will do. Do you think they would clean them up if they got hungry enough?
TOYTEK
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chaetodon kleinii-klein's butterfly are supposed to be much better aiptasia eaters than the copperband, and a little bit cheaper. I dunno if they would eat tulips or not. The only one I've seen in person wasn't that attractive, but cleared all the aiptasia out of a large(300+ Gallon) tank in a couple days.
Tomoko Schum
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I saw an article about Klein's Butterfly in Reef Hobbyist Magazine (a nice free quarterly magazine.) Not the prettiest butterfly but the article said that they are bullet proof fish and they eat aiptasia with gusto, making them a much better choice than Copper banded butterfly. However, their natural diet includes Sarcophyton and Litophyton leathers. They supposedly love large palythoa as well. So, they are not for those of us who keep softies. The article did not mention majano or tulip anemones, but who knows.
Nuking them with kalk paste sure sounds like a good idea - definitely worth a shot.
Tomoko
Nuking them with kalk paste sure sounds like a good idea - definitely worth a shot.
Tomoko
Mariner
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Oh, and Harry, somehow it's fitting that you'd toast the groundhog, since both of you only work about 60 seconds a year. The groundhog has a pretty sweet gig if you think about it -- comes out of his hole, looks for his shadow, sees it or not then gets the rest of the year off. I'd be for changing groundhog day to groundhog minute.
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Tomoko Schum
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So did Punxatawny Phill see the shadow? Is he awake? The sun is up now.
Tomoko
Tomoko
mltmtascp
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We kill ours with coral glue. Don touch them with plastic tongs them put a drop of coral glue on them and they have not returned. We recently aquired a used tank with a ton of aptasia in it. We took boiling water in a plastic syringe and kill most of them. Don had a killing spree and we are down to about 20 now!
Monica
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