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phreezee 05-21-2011 10:05 PM

Aipstasia Farming
 
Now that it's certain that my CBB eats aipstasia, I made the unusual move of scraping off a bunch of aipstasia from my over flow and put it back into display.

The aipstasia in my overflow eat left over food and are actually beneficial to the system now. I have a bunch of feather dusters in the overflow doing the same thing also.

Anyone else have a similar system? I never thought I'd stop cursing these little things and start liking them.

monocus 05-22-2011 01:46 AM

aptasia
 
one thing about having aptasia in the sump and overflow is that you will have clear water.i was hoping to have more aptasia growing so i could start up breeding berghia again,but my bannerfish think that they are a delicacy.going to start a new system just for breeding aptasia in the next month

daniella3d 05-22-2011 04:02 AM

My copperband was eating them but stopped now. I am starting to see a bunch of them poping everywhere. He ate all of them except a huge one that was too big to eat and then sort of got bored of them and they are back with a vengance.

I think he prefers to eat the live white worms and the fresh mussels rather than aiptasias...

I am thinking of starting the aiptasia X treatment again but not sure what to do. I am a bit afraid that if I poison some aiptasia and the copperband finaly decide to go back at them and eat one, then could end up quite sick.



Quote:

Originally Posted by phreezee (Post 614742)
Now that it's certain that my CBB eats aipstasia, I made the unusual move of scraping off a bunch of aipstasia from my over flow and put it back into display.

The aipstasia in my overflow eat left over food and are actually beneficial to the system now. I have a bunch of feather dusters in the overflow doing the same thing also.

Anyone else have a similar system? I never thought I'd stop cursing these little things and start liking them.



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