Biological means to eradicate Aptasia

[SiD]

Heard Bristletail Filefish will clean up Aptasia.Is it reef safe as I have Zoa colonies?
Peppermint shrimp is not an option since I have a 6 line Wrasse.
Copperband Butterfly will nip at Zoa so no again.
The Nudibranch that eats Aptasias is not available where I live.
Any other biological means to eradicate Aptasia? Is Aptasia inevitable in Reef Tank?

 

[LegendaryCG]

Why limit yourself to biological means when it can be easily controlled through manual action?
Super Glu, lemon juice, kalk paste, AptasiaX, green laser pointer are all perfectly viable methods to eradicate it.

Dealing with it before theres 500 of them is the secret.

 

[14 foot reef]

my best defense has always been Large angles like Emp, Holo, blue face, navarcus. I completely erradicated and 850 gallon system with them.

 

[Tired]

Aiptasia are easy to get rid of if you kill them before they spread. Aiptasia-x is good. Removing the frag from the water and covering the aiptasia in liquid superglue will pretty reliably smother it.

Filefish may nip at coral. They won't immediately kill it, so could be worth a try temporarily until they eat the aiptasia, as long as you would have a new home to move it to if it started nipping coral.

Aiptasia is not inevitable, no. Once it's out of the tank, try to keep it out. Closely inspect new frags for aiptasia, and immediately kill any you see. Don't try to cut or scrape them, they'll just spread.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Simply using a syringe, mix kalkwasser powder into a paste with ro water and inject into the center core of each aptasia and they will melt away

 

[Rmckoy]

Kalk paste has always worked for me .
The nudi , peppermint shrimp , file fish , copperband butterflyfish . They are all natural but they don’t always work.
and won’t eat every one .

Try kalk paste !!! Works every time