Copperbanded Butterfly Vs. Aptasia

I have had aptasia problems since day one. I recently purchased a copperbanded butterfly (dont worry not to eat the aptasia). Its not eating much other than zoas and I know aptasia is something it may eat. My question is this should I keep using my aptasia x to kill the little pests or leave them alone for now to give the butterfly something to eat if it decided to.

 

saltyundround.com has some aiptasia eating nudies for sale.

 

Thought about that but I dont want to add an animal that lives on something it will rid the tank of. Im ok with using aptasia x once a month for the rest of my life just want opinions on wether or not I should leave them for the copper.

 

As long as they arent bothering any of your massive amount of corals LOL should be okay...
If you dont have anything that will eat shrimp.. peppermints will rock out some aptasia. I had a few large aptasia.. got 3 peppermints.. and all of it was gone in 4 days.

 

Oh how I wish I could have my peppermint shrimp back. Mine ate those things up fast. Snowflake will eat one before it even hits the sand though

 

Roughness.. i forgot you had the snowflake..

 

Ya shes so mean but sooo cute. She likes cheese lol

I think Im going to just nook an aptasia that looks wrong at a coral.

 

IME, trying to singly nuke each aiptasia is a losing proposition.

Now if you can get the first 1-5 in your tank, then it might work.

I have been trying to nuke what started as like 5 aiptaisa in my 90g singly, and I am losing my battle.

it's not an explosion, but I can see what is going on. I unfortunately have a shrimp live for a day or 2 eating pseudochromis that won't let any shrimp outside of a mantis. What's worse is that the psuedochromis is not catchable via traps or any conventional method, outside of rock dismantling, and then catching it that way.
Good thing my 193g is close to being done, so I will be able to catch him then, and not put him in the new DT. Several peppermint shrimp will go in the new tank, along with my cleaner shrimp I have in my sump for months. Until then I will keep nuking the 20 or so aiptasia I have.

For some folks CB's work great at eradication of aiptaisia, but just as often it seems, the CB's that eat the pests, also get a taste for acans or micomussa.

 

Thats what Im really hoping against at this point. It even looks at my open brain wrong Ill have to catch it and take it back to the store. Im hoping it will stay on a diet of zoas mine are growing faster than it can eat them at this point and it always seems to eat the cheap ones.