Looks salty. What am I looking at? I’m not at all familiar 😅
Edit: looks like a pest anemone that will sting corals and other invertebrates. Aww I’m sorry.
Ha! Indeed salty. Aiptasia is an invasive anemone that can sting fish and corals. It spreads very easily, and is notorious for being nearly impossible to completely remove from a tank. There are some fish that eat it, but they can be picky. I spent $300 a few years ago on berghia nudibranches, which only eat aiptasia, but one of my fish enjoyed them for a snack. That fish has gone to the big fish tank in the sky, so now I have a new shipment coming today.
Pictured is an expensive powerhead that seized when they started growing on it. Not pictured are dozens and dozens more.
Thanks for the explanation. Good luck!
Yikessss 😬 best of luck with the new cleanup crew, nudibranchs are cool as fuck!
I’ve had good luck with peppermint shrimp, but not all of them like eating aiptasia and they can’t reach in the smallest crevasses so they’re not a magic solution. There’s some treatment you can buy named after a dude that worked pretty well for me once the peppermints (or nudis in your case) ate most of the aiptasia, and that fixed up my problems personally.
Good luck!Unfortunately my snowflake eel would enjoy a very expensive meal 🫤
Something that worked amazing for me in the past was to buy a syringe with some needles, and I would inject a little bit of vinegar into each one. They died instantly and within a week, I could get em all. Never had a problem with aptasia
I tried this after seeing it suggested on reef2reef. It definitely killed the ones I targeted, but a week later I had twice the amount. I got bhurgia nudibranches shortly after, and they worked great until my wrasse found them
Yeah, you gotta target as many of them as possible, so you can’t just kill a couple and leave the rest. I found that if you jab them quickly before they retract it works best.
