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So I know many of us in the Atlanta area suffer from aptasia, there are very few fixes for these outbreaks once they are to a certain point and normal solutions are usually a 50/50 shot at best. Livestock solutions consist of a few hit or miss aptasia eatting fish (files or copper butters ect), aptasia/mojana wands (likely wont remove smaller baby aptasia for a clean complete removal), and then there are the chemical solutions like aptasia-x. I have had no luck with lemon juice, kalk powder, or aptasia-x in terms of really putting a dent in an already out of hand situation so I am faced with a more ultimate solution; kill them or kill the LR and sand and start fresh carefully observing every single frag before adding it to my display. I have done a little bit of research and found there are a coral safe (not necessarily 100% safe from wrasse ect) nudibranch that specifically target aptasia as their staple diet. What this implies is that they will hide in the rocks for the most of the day and during night times they will group up and consume the aptasia in packs, leaving nothing behind to regrow or to seed new growth. I have not been able to find cases of berghia eatting anything other than aptasia. Medium sized berghia will lay eggs every 3-4 days usually resulting in a colony of berghia that will hunt until every last aptasia has been consumed. At this point you either let them wither away, culture an aptasia tank, or trade them to another ARC member that could surely use them.
SO, my question to ARC would be is anyone interested in possibly setting up a group buy? Maybe even one that could be shipped to a LFS where we would all pickup our portions of the buy in central location?
If 50+ were to be purchased at once they pricing would be <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: Red;">11.99</span></span> <span style="color: red;">PER</span>, usually you will want to have at least one medium per about 15 gallons to ensure they take off and do their job without getting ate first.
I myself will be purchasing 5-6 for my 75 gallon reef.
Edit: Also would like to include some good reading so that everyone is on the same page as far as how usefull these little buggers can be!
SO, my question to ARC would be is anyone interested in possibly setting up a group buy? Maybe even one that could be shipped to a LFS where we would all pickup our portions of the buy in central location?
If 50+ were to be purchased at once they pricing would be <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: Red;">11.99</span></span> <span style="color: red;">PER</span>, usually you will want to have at least one medium per about 15 gallons to ensure they take off and do their job without getting ate first.
I myself will be purchasing 5-6 for my 75 gallon reef.
Edit: Also would like to include some good reading so that everyone is on the same page as far as how usefull these little buggers can be!
