aiptasia in fuge

woodoggy · 01/13/2009, 09:26 PM

I read somewhere you can put aiptasia in your fuge to control neutriunts. they also said if you set the fuge up right you will not get and aiptasia in the dt. How can this be? I bought a 110g reef tank dirt cheap and it had about a thousand aiptasia in it. Most of the time i could see atleast 20 pea sized aiptasia floating around so they would have to make it to the dt eventually wouldnt they.

oscarslr · 01/13/2009, 09:31 PM

I got a similar deal and cooked my rock for 2 months, no aptasia yet to this day, but i would never mess with that they seem to spread like FIRE

jenglish · 01/13/2009, 09:42 PM

I would guess that if you had a peppermint shrimp crew capable of keeping new ones under control then you may be able to keep them in the fuge w/o getting them in the DT. I think I may stick with macro, xenia or clams for nutrient uptake. THe biggest risk would be when you tried to harvest the aptasia. After all, any of the natural methods require you to remove some of the bound up nutrients by harvesting them. You would have to harvest the aptasia outside of the tank or they would release spores and you would likely get a outbreak in the DT.

So aptasia for nutrient control is being used I hear and some w/ enough natural predators in the tank are doing OK. Not what direction I would go but not unheard of either. HTH

01/13/2009, 09:26 PM	#1
woodoggy Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jasper, IN Posts: 29	aiptasia in fuge I read somewhere you can put aiptasia in your fuge to control neutriunts. they also said if you set the fuge up right you will not get and aiptasia in the dt. How can this be? I bought a 110g reef tank dirt cheap and it had about a thousand aiptasia in it. Most of the time i could see atleast 20 pea sized aiptasia floating around so they would have to make it to the dt eventually wouldnt they.

01/13/2009, 09:31 PM	#2
oscarslr Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 782	I got a similar deal and cooked my rock for 2 months, no aptasia yet to this day, but i would never mess with that they seem to spread like FIRE __________________ Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle Current Tank Info: 225g All Starphire tank/ SPS dominated 4 mp40s ATB 1050A 8 60w T5

01/13/2009, 09:42 PM	#3
jenglish Marquis de Carabas Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,523	I would guess that if you had a peppermint shrimp crew capable of keeping new ones under control then you may be able to keep them in the fuge w/o getting them in the DT. I think I may stick with macro, xenia or clams for nutrient uptake. THe biggest risk would be when you tried to harvest the aptasia. After all, any of the natural methods require you to remove some of the bound up nutrients by harvesting them. You would have to harvest the aptasia outside of the tank or they would release spores and you would likely get a outbreak in the DT. So aptasia for nutrient control is being used I hear and some w/ enough natural predators in the tank are doing OK. Not what direction I would go but not unheard of either. HTH __________________ Jeremy Brown liquor never hurt anybody “Je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse" Pierre-Simon Laplace I should want to cook him a simple meal, but I shouldn't want to cut into him, to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes my key. Current Tank Info: broken and dry