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Old 04-03-2003, 04:31 AM
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How fast and how often do aiptasia reproduce? I found a single aiptasia on a frag rock recently, and I've isolated it to the middle of my sandbed. Should I try to kill it and risk having tiny pieces of it float away and grow, or should I just leave it if I know it won't touch any corals? If I leave it, how often and how would it reproduce?
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I would kill it asap and then all your troubles will be long gone....
Let it reproduce and youve just created way more work foryourself.
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Nuke it. Kalk paste or boiling hot water.
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Mason, it will depend on food, temp and circulation, but it WILL reproduce and be a pest. Good advice above on killing it now.
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DESTROY IT NOW!!!

I didn't think much of the couple Aiptasia in my tank a year ago....

Now my tank is literally OVERRUN with the stuff. There isn't a place you can look in my tank that you don't see flowing fields of the stuff.

My couple Peppermint shrimp simply can't keep up with it, or just aren't interested in it. I'm at the point now where I'm so disgusted with it I'm considering tearing down the whole tank and restarting. (This means bleaching all my live rock and starting from scratch with uncured base rock after)

Anyone know of any natural sure-fire Aiptasia predators? I'm probably going to add a couple more Peppermints, but if there are any other known crabs, snails, fish or whatever that decimate Aiptasia, I'm willing to try!
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Yikes! Looks like my answers are pretty clear. Thanks everyone!
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Anyone know of any natural sure-fire Aiptasia predators? I'm probably going to add a couple more Peppermints, but if there are any other known crabs, snails, fish or whatever that decimate Aiptasia, I'm willing to try!
AJ 77 was always bragging about his Copperbanded Butterfly. He says it cleaned up his Aiptasia right away.
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Thats not Aiptasia, its a condy.
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i have heard from lots of sources that these do a good job
but say that the moght eat other corals (small if but hey) and they are hard to find good healthy stock
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