Aiptasia 1, Bergia 0

[hiepatitis]

I order four Bergias from Salty Underground who by the way has great customer service. The four came in nice and healthy and made it through the acclimation. My fuge has an aiptasia outbreak so I threw them in there to keep away from my wrasses until there were enough of them to throw into the main. The third day I saw a string of eggs laid. After one week I saw a big one in the main tank. After that haven't seen any and the aiptasia is still there.

Has anyone had luck with these guys? Man they were expensive. I hope the babies hatch ok and go to town on these things.

 

[Raddogz]

Good luck with these.

I think they work best in a closed environment i.e. no fish and no pumps for them to get stuck in.

I think I've ordered them twice in the past, and never really seemed to get them to go to town on the aiptasia

 

[checkrazr]

Hiep - Try contacting AlGBlenny (Matt?) at ReefReady. He was trying to grow them out a while back and he may have some advice for you. He had them in a nano and they were laying eggs also. It was a pretty cool setup when I saw it but that was some time ago.

 

[tuberider]

During Frank Burr's presentation he said if you release them all in one spot they return to that spot to "get it on". If you scatter them around they tend not to be able to find each other. I have no experience with them myself though

 

[LeviT]

[quote author=tuberider link=topic=3990.msg47481#msg47481 date=1214596744]
During Frank Burr's presentation he said if you release them all in one spot they return to that spot to "get it on". If you scatter them around they tend not to be able to find each other. I have no experience with them myself though[/quote]

You did not just say get it on LOL

 

[tuberider]

Singing Levi, I was singing, somethings don't come across to well over the interweb do they

 

[LeviT]

[quote author=tuberider link=topic=3990.msg47507#msg47507 date=1214618151]
Singing Levi, I was singing, somethings don't come across to well over the interweb do they
[/quote]
The funny part was I sung it in my head when I read it Great now I just saw a picture of you singing in LOL

 

[Roc]

I have a Klens Butterfly I will sell you when he is done clening out my tank, you just need to house your acons, brians and candy canes in a temp tank becasue he is prone to nipping at them.

 

[hiepatitis]

Dope. Does he nip on zoas?

 

[Raddogz]

Klein's butterfly are not reef safe

 

[Roc]

Hasnt hurt polys or zoas in fact cleaned aptasia from inside zoa colonies

[quote author=Raddogz link=topic=3990.msg47514#msg47514 date=1214620515]
Klein's butterfly are not reef safe
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Not always true and like I said this one went for the Acans, candy canes and open brain but NOTHING else

 

[tapmorf]

How safe are peppermint shrimps ? I heard they can nip at small polyps, is this true ?

 

[hiepatitis]

I never had problems with peppermints but they're hit and miss when it comes to eating aiptasia.

Doug, is Matt still breeding them. I remember him asking for aiptasia rocks for that purpose.

 

[checkrazr]

Hiep - Sorry - don't know if he's still breeding. Try contacting him thru his website at ReefReady.net.

 

[hiepatitis]

I left Matt a message so hope he still has some. Lisa Brown from Salty Underground contacted me to check up on me. She says I should give them some time. I think it is my fault for being a cheapo and only buying 4 adults. Hopefully they breed like crazy