How do you remove them from your tank?
Essentially you don’t, unless you are lucky to find them. If not they die off from starving and that’s how their “removed”.
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How do you remove them from your tank?
Essentially you don’t, unless you are lucky to find them. If not they die off from starving and that’s how their “removed”.
Yeah that’s my question, if your Aiptasia is gone and you see them. How do you catch them to sell or put in a holding tank with Aiptasia rocks
@Zeal, I just looked at my tank with a flashlight at 5:30am for the first time in months. I was shocked at how much more the aiptasia were out and wide open!
So I'm planing to tear my current tank down and move everything into 2 holding tanks. One for critters, rock and coral that are aiptasia free, and a second tank for rocks that have aiptasia. Then I can work on the aiptasia myself, or by peppermint shrimp, or by a file fish or even by berghia.
So I'm really interested in following your progress. I hope your wrasse and/or emerald crab didn't eat the berghia. But I seriously doubt they would. Berghia incorporate the nematocysts from the aiptasia into the ruffles along their back as a form of protection.
I would assume every rock in your system is infected. I tried the isolation method and quickly realized there was more than I could see
Good luck with the project!Oh, I know how bad it can be. And I appreciate the advise. But I don't have too many aiptasia and I have lots of smaller rocks in my unusual rockscape (built on an egg crate platform). And once I've torn it down I have to do some re-plumbing of the bathroom through the dining room wall (where the tank will end up) and I have to build a new top for the stand so the new 30" (front to back) tank will fit. So I expect to have lots of time while all the work is being done (mostly by me!).
Can Berghias be baited and trapped? Like, could you put a small aptasia rock in a jar or something, set an alarm for 4a.m., and pull some out to prevent starvation?
Exactly how it worked for me!They definitely work! IME you may never see them again however depending on how bad an infestation you have you will one day wake up and notice 90% of the aiptasia vanished. Could be 2, 3 or even 4 months just be patient and when you finally decide they must’ve died and didn’t do anything they’ll start working