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#1
10-13-2003, 11:27 PM
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playing with fire?
i had a bad aptasia outbreak a while ago (six or so months) that was well handled by peppermint shrimp
but there was (is) one bad boy the shrimp didn't touch - at the time he was about an inch across now he is close to triple that and the sole aptasia in the tank am i asking for trouble letting him be - the 3 peppermints are still resident but make no effort to go after this monster about a month ago there was one small aptasia on the other side of the tank but it has since vanished on the same topic - how do these guys propagate in the wild (the aptasia not the shrimp)? tia 
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#2
10-14-2003, 12:27 AM
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If your aptasia is 3 inches across, it is getting to the size where it could harm small fish. I would get rid of it
Try injecting it with a super concentrated boiling water and salt solution. This usually does the trick and doesn't affect your tank very much.
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#3
10-14-2003, 12:43 AM
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Aptasia sp. can reproduce sexually or asexually. I expect they do a lot of both in the wild.
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-Quinn Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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10-15-2003, 12:06 AM
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the shrimp will not eat the "mother colony" aptasia, as doing so would end their food source. they are more intelligent than you think
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