The life span of nudibranches to kill aiptasi, is not an
issue unless you just get one, and one is too small to
make sufficent dent in a well established amount of aiptasia.

The bigest issue is wether they will survive in the reef
tank, as clowns will often kill them to protect their
anemone. They work great when they survive and reproduce,
but they often get killed.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Billy wrote on 11/25/2005 11:20 PM:
"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Thanks everyone. I did some searching on the web. It looks like it
might be aiptasia, as several of you suggested. One site claims
that various fish will eat these, including the Copperband
suggested by Mislav. Copperbands and Racoons are supposed to be the
best. Queen angels also alledgedly like them, so I'm going to get
one of those.

There's also a nudibranch that eats them, but when they run out of
aiptasia, they starve. I'm not going to chance that.



Most nudibranchs have short lifespans anyway, so it's not much of a
consideration IMO. For example, lettuce nudibranches generally will
not live more than six months or so, even with ample food, so I'm
told.

b