Aiptasia in fuge

Is the aiptasia growing in the chaeto?

If not I would keep the chaeto. Any you buy on Craigslist is also coming from someone else's tank so what difference does it make? Even if it was I think I'd just cut out the aiptasias.

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If you're gonna clean it may as well do it right, scrub and wash with a mild bleach solution and some razors and then rinse real good!

He may be right about the aiptaisia, hard to tell, but if its been disturbed it may have released its little spores and have a ton lying in wait to pop up!

 

here is the real question... what is this aiptasia on. Is it on some rubble or pieces of live rock that you can just take out or what? You could always leave everything as is for now and run the fuge as a separate tank for a while and see if you can get some peppermint shrimp to eat it or see if stuff starts popping up. Doesn't always work, but generally after you're finished a LFS "should" take them back for credit. I don't generally like treating a problem with an animal but in some cases it is just the best method to the madness considering most other treatments could just make things worse for you in certain situations. The main thing here is that you do what you wish in this situation because everything everyone tells you here is a suggestion, not exactly what you must do. The choice is all yours and even if someone doesn't agree with what you're doing, you will be supported regardless by someone. It's your tank/fuge ;D

 

aipstasia is actually a good filter feeder from my understanding but most people hate the eyesores in their DT...i dont know if it can jump from the fuge to the DT but if it stays only in the fuge it may not be a big deal....just throw a peppermint or two down there

 

The way I look at this is there are 2 concerns. I understand the reasoning behind not cleaning out the fuge. If there are aptasia already there I would start over and not take a chance. Also anything you add whether it would be a rock or something else could have a small aptasia on it and you would run into the issue anyhow. Thats why I would start over fresh as others have suggested.

The other question is waiting through the cycling period and is it worth it. For me I would deal with a cycle because I know it will eventually end after a few months or so. Aptasia can be a never ending problem depending on your treatment and how good you are at removing them.

Choose the lesser evil of the 2 for you.

 

Aiptasia has a very potent sting and spreads like wild fire. You may thing it looks pretty, but before long it has taken over your tank and killed off all your corals. Also it spreads through spores when threatened, so it will inevitably spread to DT.

 

no i think it looks like crap but i know of a few people who use aipstasia in there fuge as a filter feeder...I'm just saying IF there were a way to contain it, that its not the worst thing in the world, peppermint shrimp work wonders on keep them in check and actually "farm" them lol...they'll eat them all but leave a few alive just so they have a continuous food source

 

They will eat them all in time. Also when the peppermint shrimp attack the aiptasia there is a very real possibility they will release spores when they are threatened and now you've just infected your entire system. It's all up to you, your tank. But I've been on here long enough to know there will be a "help aiptasia problem" thread on here in the next few months .

 

k, this is a great discussion of pros and cons.

i got the fuge last night, left the dsb wet, brought it home, set it up in the gargage with a heater, light and s small aqua clear filter to circulate the water, and put water back into the fuge that i brought from the breakdown, hoping to salvage the dsb and pods, i have chaeto, its cheap, and not worried bout losing that, the pods were a bigger thought, as i have a scooter blenny, (dragonet, i.e. mandarin) and a mandarin, and put live pods in my tank once a week to feed them, so a free food sourch for them would be great.

now, back to the Craptasia. it appears to only be on the glass, 3 of them, the supply and return portions of the sump are empty, and i dont see any there.
aaas far as this sump, im going to dump it all, and probably just clean and sell it, as i have a 20gal high fuge being built as i type, this one just came with the deal, and i wanted to know the opinions of using it


as far as cycling, im going to swap out my tank, to this tank. this tank will be scrubbed clean with vinegar and bleach, and dried well, ill be using my live rock only, so a cycle should not occur, and if so minimal.

a question about my sand in my existing tank, can it, and is it safe to move into the new tank? should i rinse it, or put it in, or get new sand? it is NOT a dsb, theres about 1 1/2 -2" of sand, its a black sand that i paid a fortune for, and kind of like it, but am thinking of goin to crushed coral or something else if i cant re use it.
also, what about mixing new sand with my black sand? safe? bad? so so?

all of your opinions are appreciated, its why i keep coming back here, thank you.

 

if its only inch and a half deep or so it shouldnt be an issue of just moving the sand from one tank to another, i wouldnt rinse...rinsing will cause die off and then a mini cycle

a few questions though, how long was the previous tank running(the shorter the better when speaking about sand because there is less of a chance of nasty build up in it etc) also when you say mixing new sand with old sand does that mean new black sand or regular sand? regardless rinse i but if you mean regular sand there is plenty of people with mixed sand just search salt and pepper sand beds