Raising Aiptasia hunters: Have you tried to breed Berghia nudibranchs?

[Kzang]

You don’t breed berghia. You breed aiptasia! Lol they eat aiptasia so fast, I had to stop. It is difficult to get enough aiptasia to sustain even a small population.

 

[Fapman]

Yes, i had an infestation of over 1000 aiptasia and ended up trading in about 250 berghia for store credit which started from 10.

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

I agree that you can’t keep thousands alive. Unless you have a dozen 300 gallon wall to wall aiptasia systems. That would be a full time job cutting heads off stalks for feeding lol. Personally IM happy if I can keep 50-100 alive at a time so IM prepared for orders.

Yeah it's crazy the amount they eat virtually impossible to keep up with them

 

[Saminpa]

Yeah it's crazy the amount they eat virtually impossible to keep up with them

I call it survival of the fittest. They all will eat every day if you let them. But young can go 3-5 days and adults 5-7 without eating. So I only feed a controlled amount of cut off aiptasia heads every other day. Provides help sustaining food.

 

[Val1064]

I had a huge success when I was given or bought rock infested with aiptasia, I went from 4 to over 100. Keeping them long term is tricky. Mine went through 300lbs of rocks in weeks. My LFS traded me nudis for corals, most died off. I have few left

 

[707Nick]

Been breeding them on and off for a while.
My young ones just laid eggs, so cycle continues

The food-tank, that might cause nightmares:

Yea I was thinking I may want to grow out our aptasia in the garage.

 

[707Nick]

I live in Phoenix so the only thing I didn’t do was the heating,, not needed for me since the house is reasonable indoors all year. I haven’t had any leaks,, this system ran so good that at one point I moved everything up one shelf,, and kept an Achilles in the “sump” for 8 months, the 4” sand bed is an amazing bio filter. Here is a tip,,, don’t think you’re gonna grow aptasia in the sump, escapes happen. Last comment,,, I now know more about growing aptasia than nudies,,, start your aptasia supply a year in advance. No joke aptasia is the biggest issue, having enough.

Here is a little secret, aptasia is the key, having enough. I saw a great aptasia setup during one of March’s Fragbox Corals YouTube video,, it was one of the trade shows in Florida, he had his very attractive gf with him on a tour of, I think, Top Shelf aquatics. At one point he is leaving one room, bumps into Reefdudes Devon… and you get a magical 10 second view of their solution to growing aptasia,, it’s like. 3 tier system,, he gets hustles past. It looks awesom. I think the idea was to tak a rock with aptasia from tha grow system to the bergia,,let them clean the rock.

Great photo thsnks

 

[Saminpa]

Yea I was thinking I may want to grow out our aptasia in the garage.

I grow my aiptasia in two cheap 5 gallon tank setups i got at petsmart. I cut off heads for the week on a Sunday and every other day put some aiptasia in the breeding jar.

A big tank doesn’t work for baby nudi, too much area to cover to find the food i put in. Limiting the food is the ticket to having a continuous sustainable aiptasia population. They only need feeding every 3-5 days but will eat daily if you just throw in aiptasia rocks