Okay, for everyone that has those pesky glass anemones, aptasia, in their salt water, coral fish aquariums, I have a story to tell. I only tell this on my blog because I am so dang impressed. A few years back I bought a great coral with some aptasia attached to it. At the time I didn't think much of it. However, six months later, these pesky things were everywhere! I had hundreds of them all over my tank. I wish I never introduced them to my tank in the first place.
I tried everything that I could, peppermint shrimp, fish, injecting them manually etc. The list goes on. Finally I came across the Bergia Nudibranch. I thought I would give them a try as I had tried everything else. So...... I called and requested 10 of them. I have a 240 gallon reef/fish aquarium. The sales woman told me "I wouldn't disagree with that number". She told me that they would die off after/if there were no more aptasia. "Fine by me" I thought to myself, "as long as those pesky anemone’s are gone". When she told me the price..... for 10...... I was stunned. A little over 200 dollars. DANG!! Well, if they work they will be worth it. So I gave her my billing information and waited for them to arrive.
When they arrived in a small 4"X4" box, I opened it and saw what looked like 10 pieces of white rice, they were THAT small. I began to think, "have I been taken or what". What a rip off. So I put them into my tank, but before doing so, I took out crabs and/or other things I thought would make a morsel out of these very small critters (seriously, the size of a piece of rice). I could hardly see them, and with in a half hour, they were gone and I expected I would never see them again. I wrote off the $200 + dollars that I figured I had wasted.
I was looking at my tank about 1.5-2 months later, and I actually saw one of these Bergia eating an aptasia. Only this time, it was the size of a small slug. "Nice!" I thought to my self, one has survived and is actually eating the aptasia (glass anemones). Then I saw another, and another. All of them were grown. I still had hundreds of aptasia in my tank, and so I thought "well at least they will eat some before they all die". However, to my amazement, in the next 2 weeks, I could not believe the diminishing aptasia. Pretty soon, I was having trouble even finding some. I would say within three weeks of spotting my first Berghia again, I couldn't find an aptasia to save my life. I AM AMAZED! Looks like they were worth it after all. I am sure that a lot, if not all of my Berghia have died off, I haven't seen one for a while. However, I have still not seen a single aptasia for over a month. NICE! Anyway, if any of you are wondering about these little guys, and if they work, THEY DO! And in my tank........they ROCKED the house!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Berghia for aptasia
Posted by S1CROW at 4:04 PM
Labels: aptasia, aquariums, Berghia verrucicornis, coral, glass anemones, Nudibranch
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EWWWWWW!!!! I hate water things and especially ones that look like furry sluggy stuff. That is so gross, but I am happy that you got your problem taken care of.
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