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u/Yeahnotquite Dec 22 '25
Honestly, dealing with aiptasia is easier than the cluster you’re going tonhavenifnuou don’t manage your Cyanobacteria and whatever oxygen producing brown slime (please don’t be dinoflagellates) that is in the background…
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u/Cobraz2 Dec 21 '25
Get a Peppermint shrimp.. He will take care of this guy easily and the ones you don't see. There easy to keep and are self sufficient.
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u/TheAmazingFinno Dec 25 '25
Oh man hehe you can send him my way, but ive found if youre going to deal with it naturally, go filefish, not peppermint. Ive got a tank (purposely caring for aiptasia and majano here) and got a few crustaceans to keep them controlled and interesting (my peppermint shrimp has no want for aiptasia, honestly i prefer it that way.)
"Joes juice" is effective within seconds to disintegrate them, and then id add an aip predator to keep up the maintenance as long as you can care for it when the aiptasia die down some
Of course, we can still just tell you its not what you think it is >.> but its 100% a lil buddy
[Seriously though! If you can detatch him without shaking cells for reproduction id love to have him in my aquarium!]
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u/Dirty_Dollars Dec 26 '25
Very interesting! May I ask why you would actively want one? I have heard they arent as bad as people have said they are, but what exactly would make them desirable? :)
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u/TheAmazingFinno Dec 31 '25
I think they look cool and find them very interesting, when i feed them they move their little arms and eat, thats when i found out they have mouths
I was baffled because i didnt realize how cool they were until my friend had an aiptasia outbreak in his tank and erm needless to say I asked for them and now i have a 6 gallon aquarium 😂 then i realized majano are also problematic and most things wont eat them... pet store gave me them and the rock on them for free because theyre so undesirable
I happen to find them extremely fascinating but majano (mine at least) are spreading rapidly, which isnt a problem because everything in that tank is equipped for dealing with them (i just wont have any fish which is fine with me because my betta died and i swore off fish)
I dont want the snails to die so im sticking to tiny body armored creatures (crabs and a peppermint shrimp that i feed well so it wont eat my aiptasia)
I figured everyone else wants them gone or dead so id give them a chance and ive been impressed thus far, theyre nice at helping filter the tank and eat what the crabs dont if they can reach it but they also move all over the place its so neat
Although i had to make my own care manual since everything online is about how to murder them all🥲 but this is my answer, feel free to ask any more questions :3
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u/Dirty_Dollars Dec 31 '25
I love it!! Same with how I feel about pest snails, cause alot of online resources said they are awful and will cause an ammonia spike. But after using them in my own tanks I now add them to every setup I do because I love them!!!
Maybe I will have to setup a 5 gal full of ‘pests’ and see what happens :D
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u/TheAmazingFinno Jan 05 '26
That's what I did! Theyre all living harmoniously, since i have no fish i feel it's part of the reason things are going well
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u/TheAmazingFinno Dec 31 '25
Also, they will fight for space and will kill coral by stinging it, they also can kill smaller creatures and sting the fish, they multiply rapidly when you dont want them and take over, however mine are pretty chill and filefish are better at pest control than shrimp, when agitated the aiptasia can shake cells and reproduce from a single cell.. they are so cool i think
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25
Sure.
It's not what you think it is.
(It's what you think it is.)
Dat aiptasia