Glass Anemones/tank Partitions For 55?

[13thmonkey]

i am having one heck of a time with glass anemones. most people i have talked to say that they have had success with peppermint shrimp. the problem i have is this, i have a longnosed hawkfish. i was wondering if anyone made a partition that i could quarintine my hawk to one side and a peppermint to the otherside. then switch them. or if anyone has any other ideas for riding these pesky nems id happily listen.

 

[SkiFletch]

A quarantine of the hawkfish would be a great idea. If thats too much trouble, you could consider squirts of joes juice or better yet cause you're in the states, get your hands on a Berghia Nudbranch which will DEFINITELY wipe the aiptasia out.

 

[13thmonkey]

joes juice? would it hurt desirable nems? as far as the berghia would this turn out to be a nucence for any thing else ? or would anything i have be a potential predator of the berghia? i have a yellow tang, neon dottyback, two ocellaris, blue/yellow tail damsel, longnosed hawk, emerald mithrax, (7)blue leg dwarf hermits, couple turbo snails, two bubble tip nems (large and real small), starburst polyp, zooanthid, ricordia, striped mushroom, and a brain coral (Trachyphyllia).

 

[SkiFletch]

Berghia Nudibranchs are the absoloute ideal predator for aiptasia. They ONLY eat aiptasia, are exceptionally diminutive in size (1-5mm) and when finished with ridding your tank of aiptasia will perish and not harm the water column (since they're so small). The only thing I MIGHT be concerned with would be the dottyback or the hawk trying to eat them, but usually they take one nibble, taste something HORRIBLE, and dont eat them

For joes juice, you just squirt a drop or two at the aip which recieves a concentrated dose. The concoction quickly dissipates in the large tank volume. Just kill like 2 a day and you should see no adverse affects to other organisms

 

[13thmonkey]

thanks again for your wealth of knowledge ski