Berghia Experience

DSC reef · Mar 3, 2018

Dsnakes said:
Thanks for that info! I am now considering pulling a few aiptasia out and propagating them in a small tank...maybe @DSC reef can send me some of his palm trees :D

I can but I'm concerened about shipping weight;Hilarious I'll try and have my wife get a good pic of them later.

PhreeByrd · Mar 3, 2018

I highly recommend it. It was actually kind of fun and very interesting. Great if you have kids around, too.

Deinonych · Mar 3, 2018

As others have mentioned, your Aiptasia problem will soon be a thing of the past. :) I had a really bad outbreak in my DT, and added only 10 nudibranchs to take care of it. It look about 5 months for them to wipe them out. It was slow going for the first couple of months, but they made noticeable progress on a daily basis after that. I'm now Aiptasia free. :)

Dsnakes · Mar 3, 2018

Next on the menu!!

DSC reef · Mar 3, 2018

I can't believe how efficient they are. That's awesome and thanks for sharing

Sabellafella · Mar 3, 2018

ChiCity said:
You have an army of berghia for a 20g tank....
You’ll actually see major progress within a week!

Good riddance.

Haha right? They'll be having a party in there

domination2580 · Mar 4, 2018

Did a quick look about after lights out and didn't see any of the nudis I put in.

Dsnakes · Mar 4, 2018

Here's a daylight shot of the progression :) I better pull some out quick if I want to propagate them for food and breed the nudis.

domination2580 · Mar 4, 2018

I'm ready if you did get breeding them lol.

Dsnakes · Mar 4, 2018

There must've been some baby aiptasia on the bottom of my trachy. They are having a gathering there tonight ;Happy

jd371 · Mar 5, 2018

I have a CBB and unless the Aptasia is out in the open he won't touch them. I see plenty of them in between the rocks and in the crevices. I hit them with Aptasia-X this past weekend but I know they will be back. I'm really considering getting some Nudis for next time. What stopped me in the past was they are expensive and feared that they would be a snack for my Melenaurus. Anybody use them with a Melanurus in the tank, how did it work out?

A+Aquatics · Mar 5, 2018

Dsnakes said:
There must've been some baby aiptasia on the bottom of my trachy. They are having a gathering there tonight ;Happy

Haha! Party time

Dsnakes · Mar 6, 2018

I noticed they hadn't really moved much in the last 24hrs. Flashlight searching tonight, I discovered multiple egg clusters! I'm not sure if any will survive though, as earlier it was posted that pods will eat the eggs.

Adele · Mar 7, 2018

Your updates make my heart happy. There IS hope. I don’t (knock on live rock) have Aptasia but it’s comforting to know there is a natural and efficient way to annihilate them. Ding Dong the Aptasia are dead. [emoji444]

PhreeByrd · Mar 7, 2018

Keep an eye on that egg cluster on the trachyphillia. They couldn't be in a better spot for successful hatching if that's going to happen. I'm very interested in some verification that amphipods will eat the eggs, since I have not ever experienced this.

TinyChocobo · Mar 7, 2018

They're so cute. It's really too bad that Aiptasia is all they will eat [from the standpoint that it would be nice if there was an alternate source of food you could give them in the absence of aiptasia].

I wonder how these things survive in the wild - is there really that much aiptasia in the reefs?

Dsnakes · Mar 7, 2018

Eggs made it through night one. I also noticed at least 6 more clusters in the rock work. I'm going to beg some locals for aiptasia rocks to start a tank to feed them. I fear my display is almost clean of the big ones!

DSC reef · Mar 7, 2018

Glad to see them working for you man. We just took half the tank apart to retrieve 3 peppermint shrimp that liked the taste of acans more than aptasia.

domination2580 · Mar 7, 2018

I have rock for you pretty infested. I'd be willing to send one rock I'd say 10 to 20 lb.... if I can get some berghia....I need them

Dsnakes · Mar 7, 2018

DSC reef said:
Glad to see them working for you man. We just took half the tank apart to retrieve 3 peppermint shrimp that liked the taste of acans more than aptasia.

That's why I refused to even try peppermints. Too risky for my little 20g. I hope you didn't lose too many Acans.

domination2580 said:
I have rock for you pretty infested. I'd be willing to send one rock I'd say 10 to 20 lb.... if I can get some berghia....I need them

I will take you up on that! I will have the aiptasia tank setup next week. Too busy trying to get new display moved to my house to do it now.