Yeah, I've tied home made kalk paste, joe's juice, aiptasia-X. Of the lot, I prefer Aiptasia-X because it sticks to them. HOWEVER, after I came home from holidays my aiptasia population had EXPLODED. Pre-vacation I had meticulously applied Aiptasia-X to all of them and after a few weeks, all the once I could reach SEEMED dead. Now granted, my vacation feeder overfed the tank but WOW, they all came back from where I had "killed" them.
My 3 attepts at berghias ended up with dead berghias and over $100 wasted. I've tried peps before but they don't seem to do well in my tank though they often DO eat aiptasias.
My current algae/aiptasia plan is simply to get the tank clean of algae first and improve my water quality immensely...so that peppermint shrimps will do better in the tank and aiptasias will not find a bounty of food. Then I'll "train" a swarm of peps in a QT tank, then move them to the main tank. I'll train the peps by putting them in the qt tank with no food, but an infested rock.
That's my plan anyway...
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