[skey44]

I think you should test the various methods of killing the little buggers... from least likely success (joe's juice, lemon juice, ets. ) to more likely ( red sea aiptasia x, kalk paste, etc. ) to most likely (natural predators ie. berghia and peppermint shrimp) see what level worked. I bleached my rock once and still had some pop up from the same rocks months later!
I have a few open products I'd be willing to donate to "science"

 

[skey44]

peps have worked for me too... just have to have a little army of them IMO. no less than a pair has ever worked for me.

 

[skey44]

nice write up!

another issue customer's and myself included have had with the predation issue that wasn't mentioned, is the fact that many of the aiptasia predators if not well fed (almost to the point of being overfed) will eventually start to pester if not totally consume our ornamental inverts and corals (all fish that eat aiptasia seem to eat the worms out of the tank first, then the aiptasia, then the lps... etc. )

2cents,

 

[skey44]

I have one of those... very neat fish too.

 

[skey44]

I met alpha tonight and I really liked him... nice little fellow. Too bad we can't just embrace him!

 

[skey44]

hmm, maybe I'll try calling tinkerii b/f, potter's angels, and gem tangs pests... then I may have way too many of them!

 

[skey44]

we have a customer unsuccessfully raising aiptasia, maybe they need some pointers from the Adapstasia king himself!

 

[skey44]

what type of reproduction do you think? planulation, budding?

 

[skey44]

I have sold a lot of peps lately and the report is they all worked. I do think you have to have at least 3 to really be effective though.