Nothing in my tank will eat them?
another vote if its an infestation.
How many do you think I will need, I’ll say I have about 40 aiptasia. Will anything in my tank bother or eat them is my main worry.
If it were me, I’d get 3 breeding size.
I’ve tried all the above methods and this is the only sure fire options short of a nuke from space
Thank you!
I’ve heard peppermint shrimp and file fish will target other corals I didn’t want to get them and them destroy the coral.
Have you thought about copperband butterfly? When I had aptasia problems, I did research on the most reef safe solution: nudis were my first choice, but something kept killing them in my tank; then I went with copperband butterfly cause I read they were less likely to go after corals than peppermint shrimp or filefish. My copperband is a model citizen in my tank and has never gone after any corals, I have a mix reef with, zoas, leathers, lps, rfa, mushrooms. Bonus is that's its a beautiful fish.
I have had 4 diffrent peppermint shrimps over 3 years (2 at a time) had a nasty outbreak of aphasia like 60 of them fairly big when my fist two peppermint died. got 2 new and the aphasia was gone in a week. the peppermints had never eaten of my corals and i have LPS, SPS, Soft. I cant speak for all variants of peppermint but i have always had lysmata wurdemanni with no problen and i havent even feed them (fish free tank for 2,5 years) if you feed corals they might try to grab there food but jsut throw some on the side and they dont bother the corals.
In my case, they showed up back in the spring. They began multiplying at various places in my 125 gallon tank. On other rock, on a flow pump cover, on the return flow plumbing, on the sump overflow towers, on the base of several sps corals, etc I tried Aiptasia-x on many of them, unsuccessfully. A couple of weeks ago, I notice one had taken up residence in the middle of a large zoa colony. Definite eye sore and was directly affecting the Zoas. I was able to kill it with Aiptasia-X (fist and only success), but I have a large hole in the colony now where the chemical killed surrounding polyps. I should have waited until I added the Copperband to see if he would have taken it out without damage to the surrounding zoa polyps.
