Apstasia eating nudibranch?

[Raibaru]

I forget the name the fish store had, but they claim they eat apstasia. I'm wondering how reliable they are (at $25 a pop) and what happens to them after the apstasia is all gone.

[J. Montgomery]

Peppermint shrimp is probably a better idea. Chances are the nudi will get sucked into your powerheads before it eats any aiptasia.

[d9sccr]

I have heard that the nudis work...I believe that they are black with blue lines, but don't quote me on that

[bencozzy]

they a berghia(sp.) they work but very slowly so if its a big tank (10g+) go with pepps.

[d9sccr]

that's true, but I think it'd cool to have one around for awhile in my tank

[kmk2307]

If you want to go with the Berghia, I would say do your homework on breeding them outside of the tank and release the offspring into the tank. It's super easy to raise them. All you need is a few pitchers and a room with a stable temperature... and a lot of anemones which it sounds like you have so far.

Good luck,
Kevin

[d9sccr]

just out of curiosity, why do you say to breed them and put the offspring in?

[delsol650]

http://www.berghia.net./

check that place out

[kmk2307]

If you buy two adults and put them in you may never see them again. That seems to happen a lot. If you breed them and put the offspring in you a) put more total slugs in and b) don't loose your initial investment if the parents get eaten.

[lilith]

I used one of these (at 20$ a creature) I got rid of about 90% of my aptasia. I have not seen it in a few days and I still see 2 tiny polyps down at the bottom of live rock pile. I'm hoping its still eating tiny polyps that I cant see, but once they have eaten all the aptasia they die. The are white and turn a light pink if full. I would suggest one if you have a bad out break in a tank with no fish that will eat it or bother ir. I have gone through 3 pepermint shrimp and only the first one, which died of molting complications, did anything other than look at the aptasia. I'm hoping the other 2 serviving ones will pick up the habbit. Good Luck!

[Just195]

i used peppermint shrimp when i had apstasia and all of them were gone overnight.

[Speckled Grouper]

Berghias eat Aptaisias, and Aptaisias only. They might starve travelling from one to the next if they are too far apart.
We are trying to breed them, and it is difficult. To even have a slight chance to succeed, you need to actually breed Aptaisia aswell, they need tons and tons to survive and in all sizes from tiny to medium to large depending on their stage of life.

IMO, peppermints combined with Kalk, Joe's Juice, etc. (for the real large ones) works much better.

[inwall75]

I definately prefer berghia over peppermint shrimps. I can't tell you how many peppermints I've seen that never touch a single aiptasia or start off eating aiptasia and then convert over to fish food.

I just talked with www.saltyunderground.com and they are currently running a sale on phone orders.