Aiptasia control
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Anyone used Blue Life?
I put a few drops on a few of the buggers, and looks like it kills
them. Any long-term effects? Any other products recommended?
The best product I can recommend is buing some peppermint shrimps.
They do great job eating aiptasia and removing even the smallest
ones you cannot see in rock crevices before they grow big enough
to be noticeable. Shimps are not the "overnight solution", it
requires time and patience, but eventually they get rid of even
last single polyps and let you keep tank aiptasia free for years.
They are not as spectacular and ornamental as other Lysmata
species but they do their job pretty well...
If you have a choice between chemical war and buyng some nice
animal to eat the pest, the second solution is much more natural.
Usually cheaper, long lasting and with no unwanted side effects :-)
Keeping more than one Lysmata shrimp (including peppermint)
gives you added benefit of shimp producing eggs and feeding
your corals and fish with shrimp larvae released to water.
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