Proud Pappa Post

[daveydoodle]

Just a proud Pappa moment. I was starting to see an increase in Aptasia growing here and there, maybe 18-20+ visible ones on LR I had brought in. I bought 6 Peppermint shrimp on Saturday and 5 days later, not an aptasia in sight. I actually saw one the first night under the Moonlight LED's chow down on one. It was the All You Can Eat Challenge, shrimp won!

 

[CRW Reef]

Nice Dave congrats you are lucky! Glad they did well!

 

[RuRoo]

Awesome! I love my peppermints. Mine did the job and keeps it aiptasia free in case any polyps start growing.

 

[daveydoodle]

Yeah, I heard they can be hit or miss whether or not they take to it. Mine seem to do great!

 

[jahmic]

Where'd you pick them up from?

 

[fiji4118]

Khalis, neptunes has them on sale right now

 

[jahmic]

Thanks Adam, I'll have to check out their stock this weekend.

 

[fiji4118]

No sweat. They have berghia nudibranches in as well. They only eat aptasia but it might take longer. I just put some in my predator tank to start taking care of them in there.

 

[jahmic]

Also great to know in case things get worse. I only have maybe 5 heads and they haven't spread or grown in over a month. In fact...3 of the 5 almost look dead and have been shrinking back consistently. I had manually removed a couple and successfully killed another by covering it with putty, but what's left is either too small or just on rock that is impossible to pull out of the tank to try to remove them in a separate container.

Hopefully I don't get to plague levels and a peppermint can take them out. I think a berghia would either quickly starve or turn into wrasse food in my tank.

 

[daveydoodle]

I bought mine from Aquamart. I think they were 6 for $25, or so. Plus the MASC discount.