Group Sale!: Berghia Nudibranchs (for your aiptasia problems)

[Slyguy00]

Originally Posted by Bugger

I bought 10 of these in January of 2014 since that time I have only seen one grown adult and two babies. My aptaisa is still present after six month. These things have a gut the size of grain of sand and just one anemones is enough to feed one for days. Many people have tried these things but few report success. I have heard others with a simulair experiance to mine Mine probally ended up in a power head. I even used course foam pad to prevent them from getting down my overflo. 20 dollars for a small bug is a rip off. Just one 5 dollar pepperment shrimp would put a whole group of these things to shame. I put no faith in this creature nothing but disappointments. Sorry for being a Debbie downer but its a forum.

Peppermint shrimp are 50/50 for eating aptasia. They are also know to eat acans and some lps. Mine ate my acans. Sorry but id way rather get berghias. Clearly you had some bad luck.

[LoJack]

Yup, or didn't do the homework and have a fish that likes to eat them. I've heard of tons of success with Berghia.

[Bugger]

Sure they eat acans but you can move those to the sump . They only eat aptisia if you starve the shrimp. comparing that slug to the peppermint shrimp is like comparing a Jar Jar binks to an Empire Walker. Like a skate board to a Mercedes. Here is my tank http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=101746
I have no wrasses or anything that would eat the slug
If you do a search on other forums you will find that my bad luck is shared by many other people that tried them.

[Slyguy00]

Originally Posted by Bugger

Sure they eat acans but you can move those to the sump . They only eat aptisia if you starve the shrimp. comparing that slug to the peppermint shrimp is like comparing a Jar Jar binks to an Empire Walker. Like a skate board to a Mercedes. Here is my tank http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=101746
I have no wrasses or anything that would eat the slug
If you do a search on other forums you will find that my bad luck is shared by many other people that tried them.

Why would you move your acans to the sump? Just so you can have a peppermint shrimp? That makes no sense. Im not exactly sure where you are going with your star wars comparison, but I think if you do some more research you will find quite the opposite.

[Bugger]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hlight=berghia

Everybody here says the same thing

[monocus]

first of all berghia take time to do their job.if your looking for instant success-forget it.in this hobby you have to have patience.for a 50 gal tank you need 6-8 berghia,and you might see a start of the disappearance at 3 months.the good thing about berghia is they eat all the cells of aptasia without leaving anything behind to start new colonies of aptasia.also berghia only eat aptasia unlike other natural control methods.as for fish eating them;i don't think so.nudibranches have a foul taste that fish don't like.i've seen my lunar wrasse try to eat a berghia and immediately spit it out.as for not seeing them;they are nocturnal and can get "sunburnt" under lighting.another mistake people make is spreading the berghia all over the tank.i place my berghia in a shot glass together just before lights out and let them crawl out on their own as a group.they need to find each other in order to reproduce,and it's the babies that really are the aptasia destroyers.they also get into every crevasse,unlike any other control.there is also a myth about currents, flow,and pumps.berghia will go everywhere to get at aptasia,including inside a return pump and survive to the main display with no harm.there is no difference between a high flow or low flow berghia.it is the same berghia with better marketing to squeeze a few extra $ out of your pocket.as for survivability in shipping,it is better that they are at least 5/8"as i have found the smaller ones don't ship well