WTB or WTT for a guaranteed Aiptasia eating fish
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Ya I bought 17 from there and they ate maybe 5 
. now however i dont see any of them and i am suspect to thinking my royal gramma is eating them.
Alas I do know they might be reef hungry but I kept a file fish in my tank for 1.5 yrs until it recently jumped out. My hopes would be that the new fish would eat the aiptasia and then ill pass him on or keep him in sump for future damage control.
. now however i dont see any of them and i am suspect to thinking my royal gramma is eating them.Alas I do know they might be reef hungry but I kept a file fish in my tank for 1.5 yrs until it recently jumped out. My hopes would be that the new fish would eat the aiptasia and then ill pass him on or keep him in sump for future damage control.
From what I've read in trying to deal with my own problems. I'd think the chance of them going for tasty corals/clams over the "bitter" aiptasia first would be pretty risky. A lot still push the Kleins or whatever but same issue of sometimes eating bad stuff. I'm shooting for once I move hopefully ordering a mess of berghia and hoping that does it. (Maybe separate rocks into separate tanks so no risk of things eating the berghia.)
CRW Reef;247940 said:
Ya I bought 17 from there and they ate maybe 5 . now however i dont see any of them and i am suspect to thinking my royal gramma is eating them.
Alas I do know they might be reef hungry but I kept a file fish in my tank for 1.5 yrs until it recently jumped out. My hopes would be that the new fish would eat the aiptasia and then ill pass him on or keep him in sump for future damage control.
. now however i dont see any of them and i am suspect to thinking my royal gramma is eating them.Alas I do know they might be reef hungry but I kept a file fish in my tank for 1.5 yrs until it recently jumped out. My hopes would be that the new fish would eat the aiptasia and then ill pass him on or keep him in sump for future damage control.
You prolly have enough zoas that you wouldn't miss a few if a filefish went after them, but the one I got decimated my colonies after the aptasia were gone. Seeing that I currently have no zoas in my tank, and am developing an aptasia issue, maybe I could get a filefish from the store, let him chomp down for a week or so, and then bring him to you in trade for some zoas? Just a thought.
The aips usually will come back after you pass the fish on, so renting/borrowing is typically very short term. The fish can only eat the ones that they can get to and there are typically plenty in the cracks, or that are small, that will repopulate once the fish is gone.
Peppermints won't eat the huge ones IME, so you have to knock those back with some boiling water.
Peppermints won't eat the huge ones IME, so you have to knock those back with some boiling water.