Holy Aptasia Batman!!!

[Hypnotoad]

Cover your pipes with mesh and drop some peppermints in there... LOL

 

[Jake_the_reefer]

Easiest fix... take the overflow box off. Fill with gasoline and light that baby up

 

[GrouperBait]

Buy some nudibranch

Nudis would get eaten alive in there haha

 

[vetteguy53081]

YIKES !!!!
Get the AptasiaX ready !!!

 

[lcj2046]

omg

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Holy crap! I think I like @Jake_the_reefer ’s idea the best :oops:;Nailbiting

 

[This guy is Extra Salty]

Get a peppermint shrimp they said, it will eat those pest anemones they said.

Shrimp ain’t touching it

 

[LetItReef]

Used to have the same outbreak on my AIO Nuvo 40, added 1 Peppermint shrimp and Aptasia is gone!
I left the Pepp in the chambers until I sold my tank.

 

[Mark Novack]

Wurdenami have always worked for me but in the overflow? I don't know.

 

[TimJBaron]

They make a good filter! I say clean what you must, but leave them there for export.

@This guy is Extra Salty those look like majano anemones, peppermint shrimp won't do much for those

 

[Magellan]

Mother of god...Just looking at that video gave my tank aptasias.

 

[Wrickardoh]

I wish you lived near I’d scrape all that out and give you some berghia for trade. Nice garden!

 

[mattzang]

dang that's an impressive collection!

 

[Ferdy92]

There is only one solution here.. Yikes, wouldn't want that anywhere near my corals!

 

[jgvergo]

Do you possibly have something in your DT eating it (e.g. peppermint shrimp) which is keeping it out of there while letting it grow in the overflow?

I don't have any of the commonly recommended aptasia killers (peppermint shrimp, filefish, CBB). I do have some aptasia in my DT, but they are barely visible.

 

[jgvergo]

I do have a black spiny sea urchin. Could he be doing the job of keeping the DT clear?

 

[jgvergo]

They are like microwave popcorn. Do what ever you can to get rid of them. I wouldn’t trust copper bands with coral. I like the nudi’s. They work and work well, but not with wrasses present.

This is my preferred plan at the moment. I'm worried if I kill them all at once, I'll disturb the tank's chemical balance in some way. For example, they are obviously serving as a nutrient export mechanism. I think a slow, natural elimination with Nudibranchs is probably the best approach.

 

[jd371]

 

[jgvergo]

Ironically, I've been really happy with the tank recently. The corals are growing and coloring up and everything else is in pretty good shape...sigh.

 

[TVV]

Keep growing them to corner the market in case they ever have the allure and price point of torch corals! You would get rich. lol

I would suggest that there are way better ways to export nutrients that take a chance breeding the invasive aptasia anywhere in your system. I would shut everything off for a short while (30 min?), and murder them with "aptasia away", or equivalent. Seems like it would take a lot so possibly catch or siphon one overflow volume to dispose of during a water change?

I would also check this possibility with experts in aptasia abatement before putting stock into this idea. I got rid of a mini colony in my overflow with this method, but nothing like your invasion! I haven't seen a single polyp of aptasia in 8 months. I also used aptasia away to kill trash palythoa colony taking over a large rock...but that is a different problem.

Good luck with whatever course you take.