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Old 06-03-2013, 07:03 PM
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+1, I love my CBB. Don't think I'll ever run a system without one. Once they're acclimated I think they're as robust as any other fish, it's getting them acclimated that can be tricky. If the one you bring home isn't already aggressively eating a wide variety of frozen food IMO they require a month or so of TLC in a low competition QT system just so they can be trained to eat. It's when people put a freaked out, freshly caught CBB that's never even seen a mysis before straight in to a community tank that they whither away, get sick and die. Once they're eating prepared foods with gusto they can hold their own against anyone. By the time my CBB went in, the berghias were very clearly winning the aiptasia war (ie, entire rocks were being cleared overnight) so I never got a chance to see what he could do. But when there was still aiptasia in the tank he'd only touch the very tiniest of them, he completely ignored anything bigger than 2 or 3 mm across. He was a lot smaller then though, so maybe he'd go after bigger ones now. Since I know he eats the small ones, I consider him an insurance policy against re-infestation now that the berghias have all been sold or starved.
What your CBB ignored anything bigger than 2 or 3 mm. Good thing I didn't buy a CBB, because my aiptasia is about the size of a toonie.
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Old 06-03-2013, 10:48 PM
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In my experience do NOT touch or inject them , i had 5 in aiptasia in my tank i injected with lemon juice and it didnt work , buy berghia nudibranchs to eat all of your aiptasias
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Old 06-04-2013, 03:09 PM
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i got a matted file fish to help me with mine. it took about 3 weeks and then they were gone. he does very well in a mixed reef and eats pellets and frozen. i started up a new little tank and transferred some rock over
and the aptasia grew back so i got a little file fish for that tank too
so it seems the success is the same as with a copperbanded but the filefish is hardier
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