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- aiptasia biological removal with bergia! Today its all about how to breed bergia nuidbranch
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Great natural control, thanks Dev!💙🐟
Thanks for the video. Setting up a new tank (waterbox 60.2 still cycling at 34 days after adding ammonia and two bacteria sources🤦🏻♂️). Haven’t run a marine aquarium since around 2000-2005. One of the biggest pains I remember was dealing with aipastia. Looking forward to an update on your progress and glad to have some more ammo in that battle just in case! Great videos! Thanks for sharing!
Pretty cool idea.
That’s awesome!
Berghia work! Period! But they do need a constant food source, once they devour the demons they will die. I recently saw a video for growing them, and the aptaisia for a food source. His suggestion for the aptasia grow-out tank was to use large gravel only in this tank. The aptasia will cover the floor of the grow-out tank as they grow. Whenever you need some food for the berghia you can easily pick up a peice and drop it in the berghia tank. I think using live rock might make that job difficult. Cheers!
Also, I went to a local reefer who grows berghia and sells them locally, he grows his aptasia on a gravel sand bed as well. Food for thought.....
I was thinking of trying that! Need to find a shallow wide tank to use
Instead of the large rocks, try putting some thick plastic netting in the tank (the ridged stuff) in a bit of zig zag, then put a bunch of large coral rubble or frag chips on top of the plastic. It gives you an easy way to transport the aiptasia over at feeding time and the netting lets you have way more frag/rubble surface exposed to grow aiptasia. To agitate you can just roll the rubble around on the netting to get them reproducing faster. Just remember to treat/dry out the rubble/frags before you put them back into the aiptasia grow tank or you will be starting again....
Thanks Devin! another very informative video! These guys are crazy expensive so great to know they are easy to be captive bred! Was there any size nudi-b you stared with or how many? Thanks agian!
I ordered a bunch so it was a mix from smaller to large. they seem to grow reasonably quick if there its lots of food!
I read Aiptasia are photosynthetic maybe you’d have a better culture yield if you added an led light to your aiptasia culture tank and would then have more to feed your nudibranchs
I have a 50 gallon frag tank with built in filter on back. I had a
Sweet!!! Cool setup.
Thx! Picked up a shallow tank today to upgrade the aiptasia tank
@@ReefDudes couldn’t u breed them all in the same tank and save space??
@@fishpony1211 yep as long as you don’t have fish that will pick them off. If your trying to get mroe best to keep away from predators. Most people Jsut add to tank. I’m purposely trying to up my yield :)
@@ReefDudes sorry i meant the aiptasia and berghia in one tank.
@@fishpony1211 will work for a while until they eat it all :P that’s how my first attempt failed. A nudi snuck into the aiptasia tank
I got a pair of Peppermint shrimps after a week there was no aptasia to be seen anywhere in the tank. Nudibranch are always sold out and my shrimps can eat fish food..
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How often do they need to eat? Does there need to be a constant supply of aiptasia?
Did you put a light on your Aiptasia culture tank? For the Aiptasia? I know they don’t have to have one but was wondering if necessary to culture them quickly
Just setup a new tank for them. Just ambient light
I put a couple of Bergia in my tank back in October last year. I had a quite a few Aptasia now not so many, however I have never seen the nudibranchs though?
Possible a fish picked them off
Plan B: Get Peppermint shrimp for half the cost that won't die out when the aiptasia are gone.... always worked for me. You won't have to set up an Aiptasia breeding operation just to keep 'em alive. This only makes sense if you're trying to breed to sell and cash in on the fad. How is this even a thing?
Peppermint have never worked as well for me. These guys 100% fixed my issue
Peppermint is a hit & missed and most of times it's a miss than a hit.
There's is a way to make sure it's work.
Get 10-20pcs of PMS, then leave them in Tank Aipt and see which one eat aipt and pull it out (Make sure you pulled out the right one) or isolating them.
From my experience, if they don't eat aipt, they will touch aipt later on when you put them in DT, they will go for fish food instead.
And the one that eat Aipt, will always go for aipt...
Trick is to pick the one with a Aipt-fetish and best way to do it is to purchase a group of them and do a bit of experiment to see which one attack aipt.
But there is another fish... works better than Shrimp, work better than Nudi.... and they will go for Aipt on day 1 and finished a thousands of aipt within a few days to a week at most.
Down side is, they will attack any corals that have similar tentacle as Aipt like Brain Corals during feeding mode but they do leave Torch & elegance alone.
The thing is... they are easy to get out of the tank... with a lure/trap.
Is there any research or evidence about how these interact with actual anemone such as BTA. As I have had experience with a file fish that was said to only eat aptasia, and it ate my large bta as well as my zoas and acans.
As far as I know they only thing they eat is aiptasia. Anemones should be perfectly safe
Is your jar completely sealed?
How do they get enough oxygen?
I had a 50 gallon frag tank with a built-in filter on the back. I had a beautiful tank with a lot of corals . In the past I had saltwater aquariums but I was always afraid of corals so I just did fish. Then I took a break for about 5 or 6 years and my girlfriend bought me an aquarium for Christmas I said this time I'm going to do corals. And I had the tank now for about five or six years you know I've had my occasional problem. But works through them and nothing too major and I always heard really know where you get your corals from I figured the place I went to was pretty safe cuz I never had any problems. And one day I went to a new aquarium store in never been to I walked in there and he had almost nothing in their tanks but there was one Coral that I always wanted sitting there all by itself and I don't know this is a few hundred gallon frag tank big and all the way like 5 ft away there was oneaptation in a tank. And I said well it's so far away and there's only one in a tank it should be okay. Well that's the beginning of my problem and I was keeping it in check with aiptasia x blah blah blah now I have hundreds maybe thousands. I lost pretty much all my corals except for five or six and it they were really the ones that I truly like the most but there was a few that I really was upset about but I will build it back up again in time. How long and how many of the berghia nudibranch should I get to get rid of the aptasia and will it be permanently gone unless I accidentally introduced it again
I would prob add 10 ish. They will breed and it will take a while but they will eventually win and clear it out. (Once you have an army of bergia you can prob trade them for new coral :) )
I've heard you need to be careful with the eggs. I have a bunch of eggs right now but I'm quarantining my aptasia first because I heard pods can eat the eggs. I have some small rocks i would love to put in but dont want to chance it. I just find aptasia in my sump and scrape them off the glass and transfer them from cup to cup a few time to avoid any sort of pods.
Yea they can. That’s a risk if in your tank. If in a seperate container they will be safe
Can Berghia be an option for Pest control if you have a Wrasse in your tank?
Possible the wrasses will pick them off. That being said I had many survivors
To get rid of aptasia you need to breed aptasia?
Hey Dev,
How are you getting along with culturing the aiptasia?
I've just seen four small aiptasia pop up in my tank, so I think i'm going to put them in a dedicated tank to let them grow and spread out as I'd love to have a little Nudi farm going!
Are the aiptasia spreading quick enough to maintain the nudi population?
Keep up with aipstia is a struggle. set up a decently big aiptaisa tank to keep it going. I traded off a bunch of nuids to give my aiptaisa time to grow :P Keep up with it is a challenge for sure.
@@ReefDudes dang, it's crazy how much they eat! I wonder what the systems are like for companies that do this on a larger scale!
I think I may ask on local forums (the hobby is a lot smaller in the UK unfortunately) if anybody wants to get rid of aiptasia infested rocks/plugs with an 'IOU' of nudis in the future 🤣🤣
@@JustTobyGaming hehe! yea the bigger the aiptaisa tank you can setup the better. i have a little 7g tank .. realistically a 20 long would be much better but i dont want to loose all my floor space :P
@@ReefDudes I'm upgrading my current 20g (only 60cm in length, though) tank to a waterbox 105.4, I think I may have to just keep my tank somewhere then to give it a try! I think I will turn the rock into rubble so it's in more manageable pieces to transfer to the nudis after seeing a comment on here and just dose ALL of the reef roids 🤣🤣
how is it going for you , do you t hink they woulld be ok without any air
I give them air every few days
I didn't think it would be this easy ! .... But i would be totally worried about bumping and braking that little 5 gal tank on the floor (clumsy person prevention). Thanks for the info!
Yea I want to find skinny shallow tank to use, temporary setup until I find something better
Maybe you don't need a glass tank and a sturdy plastic box is enough... It's not for the optics... Light doesn't seem to be much of an issue either?
how do you keep the temp in the jar ?
Room temp is warm enough to keep it reasonable
No light on the culture tank Dev?
Nope. :) ambient light only
How are they in high flow tanks? I picked up a bunch of them and they did nothing in my tank. No predators to them either .
It can’t Take a while for the population to grow if you only added a few
@@ReefDudes yeah I added 18 in a Red Sea 450 back in October. Aiptasia exploded double waiting for the nudibranchs to do their thing. Nothing . Picked up a copier band and aiptasia eating file fish today .
@@vinnyvici2835 it’s posible they may eat the nudis. Going full force on them!
@@ReefDudes ya it's very possible they will eat the nudi. I gave up on them. I can't look at the aiptasia any more. I swear they just sway on my rocks and just laugh at me.
Where can I buy some of these dudes?
Where are you located
@@ReefDudes little town in west Texas called Odessa. It is about 5 hours west of Dallas.
@@ReefDudes I am located in a small town in West Texas named Odessa. It’s about 5 West of Dallas.