raising aiptasia for food

shabreeson · 03/04/2008, 12:45 PM

I have a copperband butterfly and at the moment he is hard to feed. he is eating aiptasia like crazy though. my plan is to buy a 10 gallon, hook up a small power filter and put pieces of removable glass on the walls and on the bottom of the tank. I know that they like bad water quality with lots of food and are fine with almost no light so it sounds very doable to say the least.

do I even need to put a sponge filter or carbon in the powerfilter?

sw1tched · 03/04/2008, 02:35 PM

put out an ad. "Will remove aptasia from your rocks for cheap" put rocks in your tank for long enough to remove the aiptasia & call it a service to the reef community.

03/04/2008, 12:45 PM	#1
shabreeson Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rockford, IL Posts: 761	raising aiptasia for food I have a copperband butterfly and at the moment he is hard to feed. he is eating aiptasia like crazy though. my plan is to buy a 10 gallon, hook up a small power filter and put pieces of removable glass on the walls and on the bottom of the tank. I know that they like bad water quality with lots of food and are fine with almost no light so it sounds very doable to say the least. do I even need to put a sponge filter or carbon in the powerfilter? __________________ Regards, Mike Current Tank Info: 55 gallon mixed reef, 55 sump with a 20 gal refugium, 2 A. Allardi.,2 Bartlett's Anthias

03/04/2008, 02:35 PM	#2
sw1tched Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Omaha NE Posts: 130	put out an ad. "Will remove aptasia from your rocks for cheap" put rocks in your tank for long enough to remove the aiptasia & call it a service to the reef community.