wrote on 5/27/2007 10:01 AM:

Berghia are a great solution to aiptasia problems in the right tanks
where they are a good fit. We've heard plenty of feedback that berghia
have solved people's aiptasia problems.


Burgia nudibranches (actualy scientist have given it
a different name), are the safest form of aiptasi
control, in that they will harm nothing else, and
they multiply like rabbits, and they will gang up on
an aiptasi and kill the whole thing no mater how
large the aiptasia is, but they often do not survive
in the reef tank. The above statement makes it look
like the percentage of burgia method success is
higher than it really is.

We've also heard a ton of feedback that Joe's Juice made their
aiptasia problems worse. So our advice is to siphon away any aiptasia
on which you apply Joe's Juice. Any of the pieces of aiptasia that
break off the aiptasia you put the juice on can make new aiptasia. The
foot of the aiptasia, if not destroyed, can regrow as well.

Peppermints are hit and miss. They must be the right kind of
peppermint (most stores don't really know what they have), they prefer
to eat fish food and they typically eat only the smaller aiptasia
assuming you have the right species of shrimp.

Copperbanded butterflyfish are hard to acclimate. It's not unusual for
people to try two or three before they get one to live for more than a
week.

Actually it's a matter of keeping it alive long
term, not short term. 1 week is not very long.


If the fish lives, it's a crap shoot as to if they will eat
aiptasia.

That's because people don't know the trick to get
them to start eating them.

However, copper banded butterfly fish also like to
eat all your worms, including feather dusters, and
star polyps, and other corals as well. But most
corals are safe.


If you are considering berghia, don't get peppermint shrimp. They are
predators.


Yep they are, and many other things will kill them
as well. Even clown fish have been known to kill
them just to protect their anemone even though it
won't eat their anemone.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


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