I am overrun with aiptasia!!! need help
- Thread starter morphiii
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Talk to LIsa at www.saltyunderdog.com They will ship you the Berghia of the correct size. Berghia only live a handful of months in the wild. They are not a long-lived species anyhow. With the infestation you are talking about they would be the best option. trying to take them out manually only spreads them around more.
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just left my contact info thanks for the link
Deep Dive Coral
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- Seaford, Long Island
That is who I spoke to. Just waiting for the mods to accept the group buy. She also was throwing in free shipping for frags and inverts.
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- Flushing NY 11355
Contact me by email, please.
Should have gone to MACNA 2010, you can see a lot more sea animals are now captive bred. Selene Vomer, Trachinotus carolinus, mandarins..... I might have couple pics too. Let me find them and post up.
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Deep Dive Coral
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Hefully mods approve my group buy. I'm prity she I gave them all the info they needed to approve it.
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- Upper East Side
But how many people are going to take them out of their tanks and give them to others? I buy that these can be easily kept in captivity given a ready supply of aiptasia, but who wants aiptasia in their tanks?
I'd like to get in on the group buy for these too.
My understanding is that reef safe fish will leave them alone. On the site there is more info and a calculator for how many Berghia's they recommend by tank size. I read somewhere about people keeping Apitasia in their sump or refugium to feed the Berghia. But really, Berghia are in nature not a long-lived animal. Like May Flies they basically eat, breed and die in a short amount of time. So you could use them to clean out the infestation and give them away, but chance are they won't be around for long even in the most perfect conditions. Some people breed them and keep them in jelly jars.
My understanding is that reef safe fish will leave them alone. On the site there is more info and a calculator for how many Berghia's they recommend by tank size. I read somewhere about people keeping Apitasia in their sump or refugium to feed the Berghia. But really, Berghia are in nature not a long-lived animal. Like May Flies they basically eat, breed and die in a short amount of time. So you could use them to clean out the infestation and give them away, but chance are they won't be around for long even in the most perfect conditions. Some people breed them and keep them in jelly jars.
vangoghfish
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The right copperband butterfly, will eat it all up, I did that a couple of times, amazing how fast they eat it. Had a large one.
Deep Dive Coral
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well as soon as i hear from the mods i will post the available price and bonus from lisa that she gave me. just waiting on mods to either accept or denie my group buy.
Deep Dive Coral
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and bonus i mean quote not material.
How would i know i have the right cb butterfly.
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- westchester
I'll wait to see if it gets approved so if it goes thru i like to be in the group buy
thanks
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