My Berghia Fluval 5gl

[Chris Adams]

I have a decent amount of Aiptasia in 1 of my tanks and we love tanks in the house so.. I picked up a Fluval Spec 5gl, and placed an order for berghhia. I will putting aiptasia covered rocks in this while the berghia grow and then intend on moving some to other tank. Hope to hatch them as I figure this is going to take more than a couple rounds.

I want to watch these buggers at work and figured what better a way then buy a bunch and place rocks in 1 at a time and watch them get cleaned.

Will update with pictures when I get the Berghia in and put some of my rock in.

 

[Chris Adams]

This is just a small bit aiptasia. Ya ya I do not mind the invasive GSP or Xenia. I have become quite the farmer what it comes to that. Letters dropping constantly
Shoot my Bubble tip is starting to get a little ridiculous in itself. Keeps splitting like crazy.

 

[Dahaker89]

This is going to be interesting! Been thinking about doing this myself. How do you like the tank so far though?

 

[Chris Adams]

Just picked it up tonight and it is a nice little tank. Daughter has Fluval Edge which she has a little planted tank setup(acutally she has a few). Like the Edge a little better but no complaints for a little setup. Will be easy maintenance and the light is pretty sleek

 

[drawman]

Nice! So will you cultivate aiptasia for a long term food supply? IME they decimate aiptasia populations but always leave traces that come back after the berghia crash.

 

[Dahaker89]

Just picked it up tonight and it is a nice little tank. Daughter has Fluval Edge which she has a little planted tank setup(acutally she has a few). Like the Edge a little better but no complaints for a little setup. Will be easy maintenance and the light is pretty sleek

Definitely subscribing haha would like to compare yours for a future project. Heck might move my current nano to a different corner in my office and do this.

 

[Chris Adams]

Nice! So will you cultivate aiptasia for a long term food supply? IME they decimate aiptasia populations but always leave traces that come back after the berghia crash.

Yes I am going to give cultivation a try. I know there are others in the area with Aiptasia so if I need supplies I will trade them for infested rock. Figure I need a few rounds at least.

 

[Chris Adams]

Couple shots
Added water from my tank and put in some of the rock to start off
Did not put to much want to watch the progress. Kind of tough to see but a couple good ones.

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[Chris Adams]

My daughter and I were just looking at things (her eyes are better than mine even with glasses and magnify glass) and they are already laying eggs. Counted 4 clutches on quick look. Also watching 1 of the nudi chewing on a Aiptasia. I set the go pro up to see if I can get some good time lapse shots we will see how that goes.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Awesome!! You can always do stuff to the aiptasia to cause it to multiply. Like poking a knife or needle at it. Maybe blasting it with h2o2? I would hate to see those guys die so quickly.

 

[Chris Adams]

Awesome!! You can always do stuff to the aiptasia to cause it to multiply. Like poking a knife or needle at it. Maybe blasting it with h2o2? I would hate to see those guys die so quickly.

funny you say that was doing that they other day :)

 

[Chris Adams]

So noticed a couple good sized Aiptasia gone this morning and the previous day.
I added an additional rock with a nice amount Aiptasia. Also keeping watch for wandering Berghia. If they are white I am moving them onto the bigger rock as there is more food. As stated in information I read if they are white they have not eaten in a couple days so best to move them closer to patch if possible. I have spent more time looking at this than I have my other tanks the last couple days :)
Also some egg cluster which are the circular looking things in last pic
Here you can see 1 berghia next to some closed Xenia and Aiptasia

 

[Chris Adams]

delete double post

 

[Blue Lip]

Been thinking of ordering some.

 

[Dahaker89]

Looking good! I wonder if it'll touch any Majano nems

 

[Chris Adams]

Looking good! I wonder if it'll touch any Majano nems

From what I read no they do not eat Majano

 

[Dahaker89]

I ended up nuking my aiptasia with aiptasia-x can't wait to get my hands on this little tank. Lol I see that you're leaving zoas in the rocks?

 

[Chris Adams]

Berghia will not eat your zoa or paly

 

[Chris Adams]

Crazy thing my Bubble tip got upset and split 4 times. Will do a WC tonight.

Before. Added this to tank on 27th

After. Really it was cleaned of yesterday or evening before. They are going to town.

 

[TheEngineer]

Really cool! I wanted to do this too. One thing to be careful about with using LR in your grow out tank are copepods. They are major predators of berghia eggs.