i am currently in this war, and its a multifaceted approach. This has been my approach, which each step having its own function:
- I tried Kalk paste at the first sight of one
- which then lead to buying Aiptasia-X (since one lead to many)
- ----- ^ dropped these two methods ^ -----
- Then I tired Nudi's, which i can neither confirm or deny if they are still alive, havent seen a single one (~20) of the now in 4mo
- Then i found aiptasia in my sump, so i got some peppermint shrimp for that (cleaned up in about a week). Moved one to the display where they were spreading like wildfire, and the peppermint ate everything within a radius of its hide out, didnt touch anything else, peppermint is still there by the way.
- Biggest improvements towards success:
- Filefish. Hands down is the single source of being able to watch aiptasia get eaten
- 1ml Syringe w/ needle full of white vinegar, directly inject the base of the aiptasia with 0.5ml (pending size) and watch them wither away and dissolve. (max is 4mls for my ~110g tank as you have to be careful of the vinegar and the tank params dropping out)