Well thats the real point then.
It's like in my planted tank.
If I let the iron levels drop I get algae that would scare a pleco
but any of the other planted tanks not under MH lighting
and without CO2 injection
rarely bloom with algae not matter how lazy I get.

The strange thing about many of my apista blooms
has been the amount that grow in low light areas of the tank
under rocks and stuff

In Australia there is an incredibly common fish
called a 'stripey' they will massacre apista's
and just about anything else including urchins
but they are a step up pretty wise (nice stripes!) from apista's

I think most reef keepers are prone to over reacting
they invest so much $$$ into their setups
that they are geared towards heading off problems
weeks and weeks before they could happen.
I mean thats great, but sometimes it's a lot of
hubba-loobah over nothing.

All I know is that if I had a big outbreak in a reef display
I'd be jabbing the things full of hot water
before ya could clean a cannister.
But anywhere else..... I kinda like them.
They can take abuse, need no special care
and it's rare they bloom enuf to hurt fish for me
I'll even admit to being sad when a hermit ate me oldest and largest one.
the one I used to feed live mollies.......
not anymore due to backlash
but anemones of all types are pretty cool to look at
Some are a lot more impressive than dodgy apista's
and many work better in the creations people are creating
But ones that come for free
don't die and even breed
are better than none at all.

Long live da Apista
if only to scare aquarists that deserve it
:-)

once at band camp..............
I got paid $50 an hour for 5 hours to pull apart a 6 foot reef
locate a pistol shrimp and re-assemble.
Person was terrafied it was a mantis despite me reassurance.
ah well, to be sure, to be sure!
woooooooooT!








"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
ink.net...
I bet that tank was not as high quality of an environment as a good reef
tank :-) They grow fast in reef tanks with high intense lighting. Coper
banded butterfly fish take care of them pretty quickly though.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Tristan wrote on 2/9/2007 9:42 AM:
I agree. I had a tank with aip i it along with other stuff most foks
flush. Mojano, mantis shrimp, bristle worms, asternia stars, aiptasia,
as well as sundial snails. I do not have a problem controlling it and
it as well as other so called undesireables have never really been
anywhere near as bad a problem as most claim them to be.


On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:12:39 +1100, "swarvegorilla"
wrote:

"RubenD" wrote in message
. net...
Apparently I didn't get any on the tank (I hope).

But still wonder the chances....


Ruben


"RubenD" wrote in message
...
I got some caulerpa algae(was the only algae available to me) to
help with
the red algae (probably due to nitrates in the tank),
to my surprise, the bag not only had the caulerpa but about 25
small
aiptasias. I washed the algae with tap water to get rid of them
and left
the algae in a container until the next day when I put it on my
tank after
visual inspection.

My question is, would aiptasia survive a night on tap water, and
what
are
my chances of infecting my tank with them.

How do they reproduce so fast? Are they at the microscopic level
where the
naked eye might missed them?


Thanks,

Ruben


nah ya need a big one to have babies in your tank
then it like rains these little jellyfish things
that become new anemone

they arent so bad
poor apista get a bad rap on the net
personally I recon they are good for beginnners
just a pain for you pro's
kinda like convicts
heh

and yes I breed conesnails as well

good luck on the extermination btw
soak in fresh should have done the trick




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