aiptasia

[ams153]

are there any aiptasia eating fish.. i know how to kill the aiptasia.. but there are just WAY to many of them.. so are there any fish that will eat the aiptasia and not hurt anything else!?

 

[splatee]

I don't know of any fish that eat them. You can use Joes Juice or peppermint shrimps.

 

[babyb]

copper banded butterflys but its a 50/50 chance and its a 50/50 chance they live
and i have heard that racoon butter flys eat them to but i dont know much about that

 

[zanoshanox]

squirt the with boiling water

 

[ams153]

Originally Posted by zanoshanox
squirt the with boiling water
i know about this one the only thing is theres so many and there are a lot of small ones.. and theyll just keep spreading so i want something to keep eating them! thanks for all the help ppl!

 

[anthropo]

if you have aggressive fish then butterflies will might be an idea but if community then peppermints would eat them...hopefully. my dads tank was over ridden with them and he tried for a long time to get rid of them until he did what worked great. he took out his rock and put them in a tub filled with water that was a drastic salinity. from 1.023 to 1.012. left them in there for 2 days. then put them back into the tank. obviously u'll have some die off on the rock, but it was worth it to him since he had been trying to get rid of them for a long time.

 

[ams153]

well.. its actually my gf's tank and its a non- aggressive reef.. but the problem with taking out the rock is its pretty much holding up the structure and we just got her tank how she likes it.. but maybe i can convince her to do that there are like 50 of these dudes growing on this rock.. i think well throw a couple pepermint shrimp in and a butterfly for a while until there under control!