What nem is this.

[PeterEde]

Hopefully not a bad nem although numbers say otherwise.
This is inside the reef mat.
None in sump I'm aware of and none in display.

 

[KrisReef]

A glass (Aiptasia) anemone.

 

[PapaFishRocks]

Not the good ones

 

[backbayreef]

When I first started the hobby and discovered those cute little anemones, I religiously fed them and they made more babies! woot woot

 

[PeterEde]

When I first started the hobby and discovered those cute little anemones, I religiously fed them and they made more babies! woot woot

They are in the best place for a feed. Maybe a good thing where they are as long as the don't get out the reefmat.

 

[KrisReef]

They are in the best place for a feed. Maybe a good thing where they are as long as the don't get out the reefmat.

I would install the reefmat today to prevent the spread, if that's possible?

 

[PeterEde]

Why only here and not anywhere else. I have nothing in it that eats aphasia. That I'm aware of.

 

[UkiahTheTurtle]

They are in the best place for a feed. Maybe a good thing where they are as long as the don't get out the reefmat.

they will get out there is no containing them

 

[KrisReef]

Filter feeders settled in the calm area?

 

[PeterEde]

Filter feeders settled in the calm area?

Not sure reefmat chamber is calm?

 

[KrisReef]

Not sure reefmat chamber is calm?

Calm, as in settling spot.

( That's the base of the Reefmat? Needs to be engineered to have access holes for Nem killing syringes?)

 

[backbayreef]

They are in the best place for a feed. Maybe a good thing where they are as long as the don't get out the reefmat.

Yup - glad that they are contained…for now.

I have 3 tanks
150gal: zero aiptasias anywhere
93gal: zero in DT but hundreds in the sump. DT has 2 Klein Butterflies — aiptasias are candy to them
450gal: hundreds in DT and a few in the sump. I will move one butterfly to the DT and it will devour in a week.

I used to stress out over aiptasias but with butterfly fish, no big deal nowadays. Trust me - I used to spend hundreds & hundreds of $$ trying to kill these buggers. Natural predator is key.

Good luck!

 

[Red_Beard]

Planet of the aips.......

 

[PeterEde]

Yup - glad that they are contained…for now.

I have 3 tanks
150gal: zero aiptasias anywhere
93gal: zero in DT but hundreds in the sump. DT has 2 Klein Butterflies — aiptasias are candy to them
450gal: hundreds in DT and a few in the sump. I will move one butterfly to the DT and it will devour in a week.

I used to stress out over aiptasias but with butterfly fish, no big deal nowadays. Trust me - I used to spend hundreds & hundreds of $$ trying to kill these buggers. Natural predator is key.

Good luck!

I've stayed clear of butterfly until I need one. 2 wrasse make peppermint shrimp impossible in dt

 

[PeterEde]

Just remembered i have one peppermint shrimp in my sump. My guess is it's having a buffet if any get out the reefmat