Reset my tank ?

[Jaybeastin]

I have a minor aptasia problem.

My tank is mostly egg crates and a few rocks with no sand beds.

There was a few aptasia growing on the egg crates and sand I previously had but I removed the sand and cleaned all the eggs crates. To the point I didn’t see any visible aptasia. I tried peppermint shrimp and did absolutely nothing .

Now it’s back again and grew a little more and I can visibly see about 10 in the tank

I will not live with having them and I don’t want to see them ever again.

It’s a 90g tank. What should my plan be?

 

[Mebbid]

Aiptasia eating Filefish?

It's really hard to keep aiptasia out of the tank forever.

 

[Jaybeastin]

Aiptasia eating Filefish?

It's really hard to keep aiptasia out of the tank forever.

Will they completely wipe them out ? I’m planning not to buy anymore corals

 

[Mebbid]

Keep them wiped out enough that you shouldn't see them anymore except in the sump. What's your big aversion to them?

 

[Tahoe61]

Aiptasia eating Filefish?

It's really hard to keep aiptasia out of the tank forever.

Keep them wiped out enough that you shouldn't see them anymore except in the sump. What's your big aversion to them?

It's actually one of my pet peeves. I am old enough to remember when hobbyist started seeing Apitasia when some vendors stopped caring about selling frags or live rock with pest.
I walked into a warehouse in Garden Grove California and they actually had tanks featuring Apitasia, they called the pest anemone Glass Anemones.
Why should I accept paying for frag and rock with Apitasia and then pay again and again for solutions?
Apitasia will sting the corals you pay good money for, and let unattended they will take over prime real estate.

 

[fish_collector]

Get a copperband. I had about a thousand growing in my frag tank, I added a copperband and now there are none. Yes they pick at certain corals, there are always trade offs.

 

[GSPClown94]

Berghia nudibranchs will eat them all, just make sure they don’t get eaten by any hungry fish you have in there.

 

[Mebbid]

It's actually one of my pet peeves. I am old enough to remember when hobbyist started seeing Apitasia when some vendors stopped caring about selling frags or live rock with pest.
I walked into a warehouse in Garden Grove California and they actually had tanks featuring Apitasia, they called the pest anemone Glass Anemones.
Why should I accept paying for frag and rock with Apitasia and then pay again and again for solutions?
Apitasia will sting the corals you pay good money for, and let unattended they will take over prime real estate.

You CAN completely exclude aiptasia from the tank with some work. Do a reset like you're saying, then buy corals that you can completely remove from the plug such as mushrooms, acropora, or birdsnest. Add them to new plugs and you should be fine. Probably a long quarantine for any inverts you add as they can bring in aiptasia as well.

Personally, the aiptasia arent too bad but the vermiteds are my nemesis.