Aiptasia-eating Berghia nudibranches available here

[Len]

http://www.saltyunderground.com/

Thanks to fishinchick in #reefs for posting the link.

 

[Anonymous]

I wish I had seen these six months ago. I spend about $300 trying to breed them, but didn't get very far. They ate a few aiptasia, laid eggs, eggs hatched, but one by one they died and none of the larvae matured.

 

[SnowManSnow]

do these things eat ONLY aiptasias?


b???

 

[Anonymous]

do these things eat ONLY aiptasias?

Yes, from what I've read, that is the case.

Anyone know if these are Pacific/Atlantic specific, or are Berghias found all over?

 

[Len]

I believe it's a Caribbean species, but they seem to eat all sorts of aiptasia from what I've heard.

 

[SnowManSnow]

Here is a GREAT resource on the things.

Read up it's fairly short.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-01/a ... /index.php

B

 

[SnowManSnow]

it would be fun to take a 10 gallon to my office and try to breed these things. Maybe divide the middle with a partition, use one side for the nudis and one side to breed apistias.

B

 

[Anonymous]

Great article, many thanks.

As to their location, the article explained
:
"The genus Berghia is widely distributed circumtropically in warm and temperate waters."

and

"The most prevalent stock of Aiptasia-eating nudibranchs in the American trade, however, is heralded as having been collected from the Florida Keys (east coast USA)."

 

[bleedingthought]

http://www.saltyunderground.com/

Thanks to fishinchick in #reefs for posting the link.

I thought you didn't want nudibranches, though. :?