Aiptasia: Do you ever just leave them alone? What happens if you do?

[Matt Carden]

Been 6 months since I seen the 1st show up in my display from Florida live rock. When I look real hard I can't find 10 total . Two of them have become real monsters. I like them they're pretty cool as long as they don't explode I'll leave em alone. If they ever get out of control I'll get a natural predator like a CBB to take care of em.

 

[Lavey29]

I found some in my overflow box today. I hit them with some aptasia x. They lowered the water level so they were exposed to the air for an hour then I roasted them with the laser. Finally I took a match to them.

They survived but I'm not giving up yet.

 

[boeingn747]

I had a massive aiptasia issues a couple of years ago in both of my tanks. It came in on frags from an online retailer (nameless) and they survived coral dip. I tried aipX, kalk, even a laser and that made the issue worse. Added a pair of aiptasia eating filefish in both tanks and it took about 2 weeks but my displays are aiptasia free. And to this day they are model citizens and don't nip at any corals.

You must have a big tank because typically file fish (IME) don't get along together.

 

[Mr Cypher]

I leave them alone my Copperband loves them

 

[Mical]

You must have a big tank because typically file fish (IME) don't get along together.

My tanks are 120gal & 65 gal. Not extremely big