Will Aiptaisia Eventually Move in the Water Column

[FirstContact]

Got a 46g with plenty of aiptaisia. Cycling a 120g to be on the same sump. Using filter socks pre and post skimmer. What are the chances of the aiptaisia transferring to the larger tank? My 46g is eight years old and has a lot of life. Should I start over and burn the rocks with bleach or keep it online and hope the socks will prevent the transfer of aiptaisa?

 

[mattgumaer]

100% plus or minus 0%. If you're really determined to keep aiptasia out of the new tank, I think you'll either need to tear down the old or keep it completely separate.

Matt

 

[laga77]

If you are bothered by aiptasia, do not hook them together.

 

[FirstContact]

Okay, got it.

 

[ca1ore]

The only way to 'isolate' the new tank would be to run a large UV on the output of the 46, but even that wouldn't be 100%.

 

[tmz]

They spread from tank to tank . Socks can help a bit but they'll still spread.

 

[wilkerschnepf]

That is weird, I have not had the same experience. I run a 60g refugium that has a drain directly into my display tank. The refugium has quite a bit of aptasia and I have never found one in my display. Tank has been running in this configuration for about 4 years.

 

[Duke4life]

You get rid of 1 and 10 more pop up. Anywhere you can't see and yup they'll grow there.

 

[ca1ore]

That is weird, I have not had the same experience. I run a 60g refugium that has a drain directly into my display tank. The refugium has quite a bit of aptasia and I have never found one in my display. Tank has been running in this configuration for about 4 years.

I guarantee they are moving between the tanks, there just may be something preventing them from taking hold in the main display. I have only a few in my display, but they quickly colonized my frag tank once I hooked it into the same system.

 

[FirstContact]

That is weird, I have not had the same experience. I run a 60g refugium that has a drain directly into my display tank. The refugium has quite a bit of aptasia and I have never found one in my display. Tank has been running in this configuration for about 4 years.

I have had this experience too in reverse. Aiptaisia in the DT for years, but none ever made it into the refugium.

 

[OoooDRAGONoooo]

Hi,I had aiptaisia in dt ,until I added a matted filefish,but I have never seen even one in the sump.

 

[ryanr1212]

Im not sure if this has been brought up, but a good way to get rid of aptasia is to mix a lot of kalkwasser and a little bit of water.. make it almost a paste. then turn off all of the pumps in your tank so there is no water flow. Then with a dropper shoot a little bit (and I mean a little bit!! all you need is a little dab in the center of the aptasia) and this will melt the aptasia away. If you are really anal you will then suck the aptasia and kalkwasser out. In my experience, I just let it sit for 20 minutes then turn the pumps and power heads back on and BOOM, no more aptasia.

 

[Hitch08]

Went to a somewhat local PetCo this weekend. There were at least a couple of tanks that had a fair amount of aiptasia.

I ended up not buying any fish as I was concerned that I would end up with something in the bag that would introduce aiptasia into my tank. Not to mention the fact that there was one fish COVERED in ich. It seemed like they may have segregated that tank, but I wasn't sure and didn't want to risk either the ich or the aiptasia.

 

[BIGCYCS805]

I would not connect them the aiptasia will eventually spread I've been successful by keeping them out of my display with a copper banded butterfly fish but I notice this weekend my overflow is infested with them. I checked my overflow box after seeing a couple sprouts in my sump I run a filter sock too so they had to have made it past somehow I used a majano wand on the ones in the sump