Stringer,

To be honest I was pretty lazy about my aiptasia when I first saw a couple.
I did try to stab one a few times and that one disappeared. Later another
showed up and I was able to reach it and get it too. But that other one I
couldn't get to and never really cared.

6 months later I'm being bombarded with them. I kid you not that they are
everywhere. I have zoos that have a hole in the middle of the colony
because the glass anemone popped up in the middle. Aiptasia are good for
eating phosphates from your tank but I promise that if you ignore it they
will multiply slowly at first then go absolutely nuts. I probably have
around 50 that I can see in my 90g. Two of them are huge! They big ones
look neat. I have touched them and they don't sting at all but the fish try
to swim around them and, as I said, polyps don't want near them either.

Funny, the timing of your email. Just yesterday I ordered 4 berghi
nudibranch from www.saltyunderground.com. They come in tomorrow morning.
These guys are guaranteed predators of the aiptasia. It wasn't cheap but it
was my only hope of stopping this epidemic. Maybe while I'm acclamating
them tomorrow I'll get some pics of the aiptasia outbreak.

If you'd rather nature take care of it use the berghia. But remember that
once berghia eat all the aiptasia, they will starve to death. Or, do like I
did, learn from experience but you'll have to pay a bit more $$ later to fix
it.

Good luck,
Bryan



"StringerBell" wrote in message
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Hey people,

I went out and got the Joes Juice--- But I just cant bring myself to stab
these suckers. I realize we are playing G*D with a host of organisms on a
regular basis----but this is`nt detached like just pouring in some
additive.
How bad can the Apistasia thing get?
Is there a more passive way of getting rid of these critters?
Maybe a natural predator?
My Copperband never took a bite,