What are my options??

hunggi74 · #1 12-02-2014, 03:23 AM

When I first got the butterfly from Albert, it was reluctant to eat for the first day as well. Albert had already trained it to eat mysis. When it did start getting hungry, it was too slow compared to its tank mates and got nothing. I started feeding it through a pipette and all has been good since then. I cannot reccommend a copperband more for aptasia. Beautiful fish and does the job. Hope this helps.

monocus · #2 12-02-2014, 02:37 PM

i've seen my wrasses put berghia in their mouths and spit them out.i recently put in 3 banner fish in my tank and they cleaned up all the aptasia they could reach

CM125 · #3 12-02-2014, 05:52 PM

I think with such a huge amount you will need to go with multiple options, I use aptaisax on ones I can see and get butterflies to finish them off, or maybe your filefish, you may need to remove some things for now to get him eating it. Wrasses don't seem to do anything...

brotherd · #4 12-03-2014, 12:06 AM

If I could catch my pearlscale I'd give it to you. Then I could get things like brain corals and the like to add to my display. My pearlscale does indeed keep the aip down to zero. At a cost. It also picks at sps, and any weak parts of any soft coral. I watched an interesting technique where it will swim up to a torch and fan it with its fins to expose a soft spot and then hit it.

monza · #5 12-03-2014, 02:58 AM

I give more Bergias a try.

Coralgurl · #6 12-03-2014, 03:14 AM

More fish not an option now. Something is going on in my tank and until resolved, nothing new is going in.

Thanks for the responses, hopefully one of these will work!

Skimmerking · #7 12-04-2014, 04:39 PM

Hey coral I had a file fish and for a week did nothing I wient away to race motocross and after I came home they were all gone i was like WTH lol so ya once he tries one watch out he will revour them. mine loved my ACANs and scollies.

Coralgurl · #8 12-04-2014, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Skimmer King

Hey coral I had a file fish and for a week did nothing I wient away to race motocross and after I came home they were all gone i was like WTH lol so ya once he tries one watch out he will revour them. mine loved my ACANs and scollies.

So, I should go away for a week??

He's been in the tank for almost 4 weeks now, lazy bugger!

Seems my issue with my tank has been figured out, I don't have a rampant disease like Brook or Velvet, just a really mean clownfish. I'm still going to let things settle for a while before adding anything. Its not like the aptasia is going anywhere.....just gets more flowy....

trilinearmipmap · #9 01-12-2015, 07:14 PM

One option is just keep a container of vinegar with needle/syringe next to your tank. Every day zap a few Aiptasia, at the same time you are carbon dosing your tank with vinegar. It is quick and easy if you just stick with it.

TimT · #10 01-12-2015, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Coralgurl

I had peppermints in the past, but I am sure my yellow coris wrasse made meals out of all my shrimp (cleaners, fire and peppermints).

Have you seen the Coris wrasse eat the shrimp or did they just disappear?

The reason I ask is that there are numerous other causes for shrimp to disappear. If the Iodine level is too low in a tank the shrimp will not be able to molt properly and will die off. With live rock and corals you never know what is lurking in the dark corners of your tank and comes out at night for a snack.

I have used Peppermint shrimp numerous times to clear out aiptasia farms. I feel that they work better as they are able to get more of the aiptasia off of the rocks than fish are.

Cheers,
Tim