Is there anything in the aquarium that would eat them? I am still fighting a serious problem with aptasias and am thinking of getting a bunch of them...
I have a 90 gallon reef tank with a 10 gallon refugium and a 20 gallon sump...
The problem is the aptasias are everywhere in the main tank where i can and cannot get them... so if I kill all the ones in the open where I can get them... there are so many in places I cannot get they reproduce so fast they are back in a week... been doing this for about 2 months strait and i am about to loose it lol....
I have tried peppermint shrimp 2 times I bought a group of 3 and they stayed in the aquarium for about a week and then disappeared... (not sure if something in there is stressing them and killing them) I have 2 skunk cleaners and a blood red shrimp...
I also have a blue Linckia Sea Star and i am not sure that if he would eat the Berghia Nudibranch seeing no one knows what they eat. I would not want to spend a tun of money on Berghia Nudibranch to be an expensive snack for something in the aquarium...
I have also tried a copper banded butterfly fish. I have tried 3 of them now and the fish in the aquarium I think stress him out make him an outcast and they just starve themselves.... I did feed live foods.. an assortment and none of them lived....
I am at a crossroads.... I can try getting a larger group of peppermint shrimp and seeing if they will live and maybe help the problem.... or i can get 5 or 6 Berghia Nudibranch and see if they help the situation... eather way it will cost me online about $120 - $150 to try either situation and in the LFS closer to $200... so not sure what to do seeing no matter what i have tried so far I have failed and every try i make is expensive......
:help:
Any ideas?
I have a 90 gallon reef tank with a 10 gallon refugium and a 20 gallon sump...
The problem is the aptasias are everywhere in the main tank where i can and cannot get them... so if I kill all the ones in the open where I can get them... there are so many in places I cannot get they reproduce so fast they are back in a week... been doing this for about 2 months strait and i am about to loose it lol....
I have tried peppermint shrimp 2 times I bought a group of 3 and they stayed in the aquarium for about a week and then disappeared... (not sure if something in there is stressing them and killing them) I have 2 skunk cleaners and a blood red shrimp...
I also have a blue Linckia Sea Star and i am not sure that if he would eat the Berghia Nudibranch seeing no one knows what they eat. I would not want to spend a tun of money on Berghia Nudibranch to be an expensive snack for something in the aquarium...
I have also tried a copper banded butterfly fish. I have tried 3 of them now and the fish in the aquarium I think stress him out make him an outcast and they just starve themselves.... I did feed live foods.. an assortment and none of them lived....
I am at a crossroads.... I can try getting a larger group of peppermint shrimp and seeing if they will live and maybe help the problem.... or i can get 5 or 6 Berghia Nudibranch and see if they help the situation... eather way it will cost me online about $120 - $150 to try either situation and in the LFS closer to $200... so not sure what to do seeing no matter what i have tried so far I have failed and every try i make is expensive......
:help:
Any ideas?