I tried 2 peppermints and they did not do a thing for me. They were the real peppermint, not the cammel. It is also expensive to try peppermint.
A filefish is out of the question. I have a purple hornet polyp that I am battling to save and it's recovering now and producing babies, so the last thing I want is a filefish eating them and I bet it would be the first thing that a filefish would eat in the tank. Murphey's law.
So now I am doing this with Aiptasia X. For the pumps, I had put nets to cover my pumps when I had my black velvet and it was working well. My black velvet was tiny when I first got it.
I could probably take care of the large one with aiptasia X, which I have been doing anyway but it's the small ones that are growing within zoanthids colonies that I am having problem with. Too small to catch with Aiptasia X and I cannot let them grow in my zoanthids because by the time they get large enough my zoanthids will be dead. That's a pain.
How do the nudibranch work for getting rid of the small aiptasia that are in between zoanthids? Are they able to walk on zoanthids polyps and do that job?
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Originally Posted by reefwars
i would go peppermint shrimp long before i go nudis again. in the end after adding about 50 babies to my tank it was the filefish who cleaned them right out, even in a small tank with lots of zoas and palys to eat my filefish barely touched a thing.
because of my eel,tank size and number of aiptasia i was dealing with these were my only 2 options if i wanted to keep my rock.
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