Anyone got pest critters?? Discuss..

Baldy · #1 02-25-2013, 09:05 PM

I've become so frustrated with my aiptasia that I'm about to build a zapper for them. And I have asternia stars I don't know why people consider them pests tho, mine dont hurt anything

kien · #2 02-25-2013, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Baldy

I've become so frustrated with my aiptasia that I'm about to build a zapper for them. And I have asternia stars I don't know why people consider them pests tho, mine dont hurt anything

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Leah · #3 02-25-2013, 10:20 PM

Crabs...back to the Dr.'s. I go

subman · #4 02-26-2013, 04:22 AM

Blue cloves for sure!
I'm also fighting the odd zoa eating nudi. My wrasses are doing a great job in my display (haven't seen any zoas closing at all in months) but I found my new candy apple reds closed up in my frag section and after a quick dip I saw what seemed to be a nudi. I think I need to add a wrasse to my frag section.

kien · #5 02-26-2013, 04:25 AM

I love blue cloves!! :-).

.. And yes I know I'm the only person on this planet who does.

subman · #6 02-26-2013, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by kien

I love blue cloves!! :-).

.. And yes I know I'm the only person on this planet who does.

I used too. I bought them multiple times but now that my tank is stable and growing they are showing up on every rock, pipe and snail in the tank.

kien · #7 02-26-2013, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by subman

I used too. I bought them multiple times but now that my tank is stable and growing they are showing up on every rock, pipe and snail in the tank.

That's what mine have done. I guess I still don't consider that a bad thing. I still prefer the fields of purple/blue cloves over brown rock. I prefer them over coraline even. They but up against all sorts of corals from chalices, zoas to SPS and have never killed, stung or over taken any of my corals.

don.ald · #8 02-26-2013, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by kien

I love blue cloves!! :-).

.. And yes I know I'm the only person on this planet who does.

I no longer have a bare bottom tank, it's a blue clove bottom tank.

kien · #9 02-26-2013, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by don.ald

I no longer have a bare bottom tank, it's a blue clove bottom tank.

That. Is. Awesome!!! Pics??

AquaAddict · #10 02-28-2013, 02:35 AM

Hi,

I would like to add green star polyps and a strange kind of aptaisia that has green centers and lives mostly in the sand. It should be easy to scoop them out but not so. They are lightening fast and if you don't succeed the first couple of times removing them, they move somewhere else.

AquaAddict

View Poll Results: Anyone got pest critters?
Asterina Starfish	38	40.86%
Vermetid snails	19	20.43%
Pyramidellid snails	7	7.53%
Aiptasia	61	65.59%
Majano	16	17.20%
Evil crabs (any and all)	21	22.58%
Planaria flatworms	13	13.98%
Acropora Eating Flatworms	5	5.38%
Montipora eating nudibranchs	5	5.38%
Red bugs	7	7.53%
Zoanthid eating spiders	3	3.23%
Zoanthid eating nudibranchs	6	6.45%
Whelks	2	2.15%
mantis shrimp	6	6.45%
Other hobbyists	12	12.90%
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