Serious Aiptasia Outbreak

[lariat8099]

Apraxia X. Worked wonders for me.

 

[shoelaceike]

Yep, a lot of shops sell the camel as peppermints.
Camel Shrimp, Rhynchocinetes durbanensis <-- avoid

peppermint, Lysmata wurdemanni <--- get it if you can find it.

They look totally different. The ones that ate my plates were certainly "true" pepermints

 

[blacktippr]

Berghia Nudibranks, is the best safest and 100% sure way to get ride of The Aiptasia, it should take a in between two-3 months to completely eradicate a tank from N aiptasia infestation.

Do some research on it. You won't be disappointed.

 

[JMacedo]

Berghia Nudibranks, is the best safest and 100% sure way to get ride of The Aiptasia, it should take a in between two-3 months to completely eradicate a tank from N aiptasia infestation.

Do some research on it. You won't be disappointed.

It depends of what kind of flow is in the tank. A friend of mine and I bought some 20 from the USA to Thailand, $45USD each one after shipping plus tax, they lasted two or three days after being blasted by the changing and strong flow in our sps tanks. :(

 

[rock_lobster]

Easiest way is to boil water put it in a syringe and squirt a little on them. Kills them right away they dont even retract takes a few minutes to eliminate an entire tank full of them.

 

[JMacedo]

Easiest way is to boil water put it in a syringe and squirt a little on them. Kills them right away they dont even retract takes a few minutes to eliminate an entire tank full of them.

You can never eliminate an entire tank full of them unless it is a very, very small tank with little rock.

 

[rock_lobster]

You can never eliminate an entire tank full of them unless it is a very, very small tank with little rock.

Sure you can with enough time you can do just about anything.

 

[JMacedo]

Sure you can with enough time you can do just about anything.

Try that in my tank (you can see it in my signature). Some you can´t see them as they are under or on the back of the rocks, also my tank is not reacheable/visible from the back. Some grow inside the pipes, little invisible crevices, overflow box etc. Just imagine the result of using boiling water to kill aiptasia near a coral or on its base!!

 

[jonneyb]

peppermints worked for me also. 1st time I tried them they didn't touch them 6 months later I got 5 and aptaisa is gone. I tried aptaisaX but couldn't get them they kept coming back, its been about 3 weeks now and i don't see any. Small tank 29 gal.

 

[Bbaz123456]

Berghias.

 

[blacktippr]

Berghias.

Berghia would do the trick.

 

[rock_lobster]

Try that in my tank (you can see it in my signature). Some you can´t see them as they are under or on the back of the rocks, also my tank is not reacheable/visible from the back. Some grow inside the pipes, little invisible crevices, overflow box etc. Just imagine the result of using boiling water to kill aiptasia near a coral or on its base!!

What I notice is that none of these methods really ever eliminate them in larger tanks but it only takes a few minutes a week to manage them pretty well. I've used boiling water with apistia growing right on the zoa matt with no harm to the zoas. Apistia seem to be way more sensitive to the quick temp change(they turn white like cooked). Im talking about a very small amount of water like 1 cc will do it. You can actually see where is going because it is hypotonic so you know you arent squirting down your coral. I would say it is very low risk as far as damaging coral and quick results. Much easier then any other manual method.

 

[rock_lobster]

Try that in my tank (you can see it in my signature). Some you can´t see them as they are under or on the back of the rocks, also my tank is not reacheable/visible from the back. Some grow inside the pipes, little invisible crevices, overflow box etc. Just imagine the result of using boiling water to kill aiptasia near a coral or on its base!!

The other thing that makes it easy to use boiled water is that you dont have to inject you can just squirt it on them and it kills them right away in seconds. Its pretty effective and cheap:)

 

[Robink]

Berghia nudibranchs. Got mine from Reeftown.com. My tank was totally infested I bought 8. Took awhile but they eliminated all aiptasia. Never saw them until they ran out of aiptasia. Pulled a couple hundred out of tank and traded them to lfs and other hobbyists.

 

[scrumpto]

Fought them off and on for years and finally got rid of them.

I tried Peppermint Shrimp (not Camel Shrimp) from different retailers across four different states and never had any luck with them.

The Matted worked great and ate all of them and then jumped out of the tank. The Aiptasia all came back within a month of it committing suicide.

I tried feeding them Aiptasia-X and then also injected them with just about everything I could find using a hypodermic needle including saturated kalk, Aiptasia-X and H202 and they'd usually come back from it a few days later and thank me for the snack.

Only thing that worked for me was Berghia nudibranchs and now they're all gone and have been for six months. I first bought four Berghia and put them in the tank and they disappeared never to be seen again. One my second trip to the LFS they told me they were probably eaten by either my peppermint shrimp or my cleaner shrimps. So I set up a 15 gallon tank with two of them in it and would take a rock out and put it in the tank with the Berghia. After they'd eaten all the aiptasia on the rock (about three days) they'd start searching around on the glass for more so I could take the rock out and replace it with another.

After a few months the Berghia were huge and could clean a rock overnight. I finally sold them as I had nothing left for them to eat and didn't want them to starve. They did lay eggs in the tank but none of the little ones made it. I strongly suspect an amphipod was on the rocks and ate any of the babies.

If you absolutely can't remove the rock from your tank then you need to remove any fish or shrimp which will eat the Berghia before you put them in your main tank.

My advice? Quit screwing around and get rid of them once and for all. But that's just me as I got tired of them and finally did something about it.

 

[scrumpto]

Fought them off and on for years and finally got rid of them.

I tried Peppermint Shrimp (not Camel Shrimp) from different retailers across four different states and never had any luck with them.

The Matted worked great and ate all of them and then jumped out of the tank. The Aiptasia all came back within a month of it committing suicide.

I tried feeding them Aiptasia-X and then also injected them with just about everything I could find using a hypodermic needle including saturated kalk, Aiptasia-X and H202 and they'd usually come back from it a few days later and thank me for the snack.

Only thing that worked for me was Berghia nudibranchs and now they're all gone and have been for six months. I first bought four Berghia and put them in the tank and they disappeared never to be seen again. One my second trip to the LFS they told me they were probably eaten by either my peppermint shrimp or my cleaner shrimps. So I set up a 15 gallon tank with two of them in it and would take a rock out and put it in the tank with the Berghia. After they'd eaten all the aiptasia on the rock (about three days) they'd start searching around on the glass for more so I could take the rock out and replace it with another.

After a few months the Berghia were huge and could clean a rock overnight. I finally sold them as I had nothing left for them to eat and didn't want them to starve. They did lay eggs in the tank but none of the little ones made it. I strongly suspect an amphipod was on the rocks and ate any of the babies.

If you absolutely can't remove the rock from your tank then you need to remove any fish or shrimp which will eat the Berghia before you put them in your main tank.

My advice? Quit screwing around and get rid of them once and for all. But that's just me as I got tired of them and finally did something about it.

 

[Conman33]

I got the nudibranchs and egg sack and honestly if your aptasia is bad there not worth it there too small yes they reperduce a lot but it's not a quick fix it takes many to control aptasia I'm still using aptasia x with them in there

 

[Robink]

Due to their diet of aiptasia the berghia taste like aiptasia. As it was explained to me the only predator they would have is another aiptasia eating one, a wrasse might taste one and then spit it out. I had a melanarus wrasse while I had the berghia and I had a couple hundred in the tank after aiptasia was gone.
And the aiptasia x will harm the berghias.

 

[SROPE]

After fighting Aptasia for years with Aptasia-x and Peppermints I read about the Berghia solution. A little pricey but worth every cent. It took about three weeks in a 28 gallon NanoCube with roughly 50 countable Aptasias. When I seen no more Aptasia the Berghia became visable on the glass which made them easy to suck up with the pipette which came with them. I was as able to pass them on to others who had the same Aptasia issues.

 

[Robink]

After fighting Aptasia for years with Aptasia-x and Peppermints I read about the Berghia solution. A little pricey but worth every cent. It took about three weeks in a 28 gallon NanoCube with roughly 50 countable Aptasias. When I seen no more Aptasia the Berghia became visable on the glass which made them easy to suck up with the pipette which came with them. I was as able to pass them on to others who had the same Aptasia issues.

Exactly.... ;)