AlanM January 25, 2015 January 25, 2015 My overflow box is nearly solid with aiptasia. I keep the population in check in the display by going in with some Aiptasia-X about once a month which works for a while. I'm tempted to at least try to reduce the total load in the system by turning off flow, scraping the overflow down really well, and siphoning the whole mess out. I'd put on a felt sock and rinse the rest down the pipes and into the sock. What does anyone think of this plan, or should I just leave them alone since they're decent filtration and just keep dealing with the display ones?
Djplus1 January 25, 2015 January 25, 2015 IMO, you need to get rid of those if you are concerned about the ones in the display. They will ALWAYS keep popping up in your display if you are farming them in your overflow.
zygote2k January 25, 2015 January 25, 2015 I have hundreds in the sump and overflow box on the 500 but ZERO in the display. I also have a school of Filefish too....
zygote2k January 25, 2015 January 25, 2015 peppermint shrimps are a waste of money IMO. to combat an Aiptasia infestation using them you need to make sure the fish don't eat them and that there are plenty shrimp. When I used shrimp, I used at least 24 per tank. A filefish is way more economically feasible and is regularly visible as opposed to a shrimp which likes to hide. I believe that Aiptasia are actually good for the overall health of any given system and are as beneficial as Asterina stars or bristleworms. Just keep them under control in the DT and don't worry about them in other parts of the system.
gmerek2 January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 As far as the overflow box we will have to agree to disagree on this one bub! They can run but not hide. Took care of my aiptasia no problem mon
AlanM January 26, 2015 Author January 26, 2015 I think peppermints would go right down my drain if I put them in the overflow box. I bought 12 of them at one point and put them in the display and most disappeared the first night. Three went down the overflow the first night and three stuck around for a while in the tank. No idea where the other 6 went. I don't have huge aggressive fish, but something got em I guess. I wouldn't mind getting a filefish or two except I suspect the ones in the child care center tank of eating all the zoas I keep trying to put in there. For some reason zoas and xenia won't live in that tank, and the sinularia I put in there also isn't doing great. Mushrooms do OK, ricordia are fine, but not thriving, but no zoas. Anyway, I'm nervous about getting one or two for my home tank, but I may do that some day.
AlanM January 26, 2015 Author January 26, 2015 So is it a myth or the truth that if you leave a little bit of injured aiptasia that it will reproduce like crazy from it? Like if I scrape them out of the box but miss a little of the goo, what are the changes of me making my situation much worse?
gmerek2 January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 The goo makes baby aiptasia. It's like cutting pulsing Xenia. Sounds like all the livestock options don't work for you so scrape and get the kalk paste or aiptasia x ready. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
zygote2k January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 it's a myth. You can never get rid of Aiptasia once they're established. That's like saying you don't have cyano.
AlanM January 26, 2015 Author January 26, 2015 I do have cyano. Not a ton, but I can always find some.
AlanM January 26, 2015 Author January 26, 2015 The goo makes baby aiptasia. It's like cutting pulsing Xenia. Sounds like all the livestock options don't work for you so scrape and get the kalk paste or aiptasia x ready. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Right. I spent a bunch on berghia in the past too which I think did nothing. Although they looked exactly like montipora eating nudis so maybe that is where those came from and SA actually sells MENs as berghia. Lol
YHSublime January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 What about those PaulB electric shocker wands? They any good? I had aiptasia in my overflow when I had the 150, but also had means of controlling it in the DT, so I was never worried.
zygote2k January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 If you tear an Aiptasia and you say it'll make more, then what happens when the fish or shrimps eat them (and tear them)? If this was the case, then there would always be more aiptasia than when you started. It's almost like the other myth that if you pop Valonia bubbles, then they'll reproduce. We buy emerald crabs to combat Valonia and I'm pretty sure they pop the bubbles when they eat them and the Valonia population goes down. Both Myths.
YHSublime January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 But what happens when a tree falls in the middle of the Forrest, and nobody is there?
Neto January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 I had a lot of aiptasia in my tank recently and finally found some peppermint shrimps that did not die and eat aiptasia. I bought 4 for my 22 gallon tank and they where gone within 1 week. Thank God!
gmerek2 January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 I agree the aiptasia vomiting babies can't be true. Scraping can be a problem because you are tearing the glass anemone up and sending it elsewhere to reattach and grow. Also sometimes leaving the foot behind to grow a new one in original spot. I think the peppermint shrimp and file fish work because they do a good job at eating the entire glass anemone leaving no part of it behind and not letting parts float away.
s2nhle January 26, 2015 January 26, 2015 The goo makes baby aiptasia. It's like cutting pulsing Xenia. Sounds like all the livestock options don't work for you so scrape and get the kalk paste or aiptasia x ready. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk The kalk paste did not really work for me. the aiptasia keeps grow back right next to it.
zygote2k January 28, 2015 January 28, 2015 CBB should be avoided at all costs. They almost always die in captivity.
GraffitiSpotCorals January 28, 2015 January 28, 2015 You could reroute your drain on that side of the overflow box to a bucket temporarily and scrape all of them off and wash them out of the drain with a thick kalk water. Then rinse the drain.
AlanM January 28, 2015 Author January 28, 2015 You could reroute your drain on that side of the overflow box to a bucket temporarily and scrape all of them off and wash them out of the drain with a thick kalk water. Then rinse the drain. Not a bad idea. I should try that. Hmm. I had thought about lots of scraping and a very foul few minutes with a shop vac.
paul b January 28, 2015 January 28, 2015 (edited) What about those PaulB electric shocker wands? They any good? What do you mean, they any good? Of course they are good, I don't build garbage. But there is a reason they are called Majano Wands and not aiptasia wands. Completely different animal and aiptasia are fast. It will kill them if you can stick them. Edited January 28, 2015 by paul b
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