Aiptasia question

It was merely a tank with some sand, live rock rubble consisting of
mainly pieces which were fragged out with aip or manjano anemones on
them. Allthe bristle worms and asternia stars and naaything else most
folks typically cull and flush........The tank had no special lighting
just a cheap 50/50 15 watt and it looks great........more typical of
an underwater view commonly encountered, off and away from a reef
environment.


On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:37:13 GMT, Wayne Sallee
wrote:

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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