Aiptasia question

They also love worms.

Often people will purchase a fish, and then trade it
in later. Coper banded butterfly fish are a good
candidate for that. Let someone else use them for
aiptasia removal after your tank has been cleaned
out. :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


George Patterson wrote on 2/14/2007 1:36 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Coper banded butterfly fish take care of them pretty quickly though.

The problem with that is that the copper band usually starves after
eating all the anemones.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Also a funny thing about this is that other fish
that would normally never eat aiptasia will see the
coper banded butterfly eating one, and take it a way
and eat it themselves.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Wayne Sallee wrote on 2/19/2007 2:12 PM:
They also love worms.

Often people will purchase a fish, and then trade it in later. Coper
banded butterfly fish are a good candidate for that. Let someone else
use them for aiptasia removal after your tank has been cleaned out. :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


George Patterson wrote on 2/14/2007 1:36 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Coper banded butterfly fish take care of them pretty quickly though.

The problem with that is that the copper band usually starves after
eating all the anemones.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

George Patterson wrote:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Coper banded butterfly fish take care of them pretty quickly though.

The problem with that is that the copper band usually starves after
eating all the anemones.

Mine did a number on my aiptasia then wouldn't eat anything but frozen
mysis or brine shrimp until I tried some homemade food.

Blended up to varying degrees of fineness:

Live clams, shucked
Live mussels, shecked
fresh frozen prawns, some shells on
frozen krill
shredded nori
shredded dulce (tangs love this)
some other seaweed I had around
various quantities of flake foods
frozen cyclop-eeze
decapsulated brine shrimp eggs
reef chili
Tahitian blend reef tank formula
super selco
fresh salt water mix to aid mixing.

Everybody in the tank goes crazy for it, including my copper banded
butterfly. My ruby red cardinal (who otherwise hides) darts out to
snack. It wasn't very scientific, but everybody in the tank seems happy
to eat this every day.

-K