Becka vs Aiptasia.  Who do you have your money on?

Now to get rid of the vermetid snails

Aiptasia has been hard for me to control too. Chemicals take up too much time.  Peppermint shrimp ate my corals in my bio cube, so I avoided them for a long time. I use to add berghia 1-2 times a year, but my timor wrasses liked to eat them. More than my 6 line and yellow coris, so nudis aren’t an option anymore. I tried a copper band, but my yellow tang bullied it to death. I finally gave up and added 12 peppermint to my 170 gallon. I put the ones that were eating coral in the sump and left the good ones in the tank. I haven’t seen anymore aiptasia!

So instead of just getting rid of the leopard wrasse and using the nudibranchs you got rid of the orange shoulder and got a copper and that doesn’t eat?

Love your presentation and sense of humor.  Found this video very educational.

Aiptasia can be very easy to get rid of.  Take kalkwasser powder and mix it with a small amount of saltwater from your tank.  Make it a really thick paste but thin anough to be sucked into a diabetic syringe.  Use the syringe to inject the kalkwasser paste directly into the aiptasia and fill the cavity that it's growing in.  I promise that this works.  I've done it on several tanks and it's worked every time.  But you need to get every single aiptasia or they will come back.  Repeat this till they are gone.  Watch water parameters while you do this.  Hasn't caused any problems for me.  But still.  Watch the parameters.

Who knew 2 years later it would actually be cheaper to eat at the steakhouse then  McDonald's

Youve missed a couple of other options there. Syringe with lemon juice or vinegar which was a previous preference for attacking them but now my no.1 attack is boiling hot water in a syringe. Fill a cup with the water and just keep refilling and attacking. They melt instantly and it gets right down into porous rock.

Wow! A hand-held UV gun! Reefing just got way easier! Great video!

In our 300g tank we had an outbreak as bad as Becka’s. Berghia (from Reeftown) worked for us but we think the critical factor was planting the recommended number of Berghia per gallon - 1 for every 10 gallons. We planted several per area of rock so they could breed. Giving them friends to party with and time to make babies finally wiped out our aiptasia explosion. Berghia are expensive - but what isn’t in this hobby?

Glad you found a solution to your aptasia problem at long last keep the videos coming 👌👍

Thanks for this new entertaining episode! I'm glad Reef Delete worked in your very open rock work. It did not work for me because I could not reach in crevices and under corals. The device is so heavy and you have to press the button so hard to be sure it is on you can easily break corals. Also my arms are not long enough. Why place the LED under the thumb, why not mount it on a stick?🤦‍♂️  At £300 I'll wait for a device with a better design.

Majano wand works too.

WOW! Saving this vid for future ref. You went through it all! Good to know because I want wrasses so nudibranchs not an option.

Didn't expect to see Tracer on the thumbnail of a Tidal Gardens episode! Love it!

Always great content and beautifully filmed❤😎📸

Good to know all the steps you took.. saved a lot of people time and money we thank you ma’am …

Use a really thick kalkwasser mix. You'll see them melt away. I used it on mine, granted, I didn't have a total take over more like 5 or 6? It takes so little as well, it doesn't alter water chemistry

Me and 2 friends have been sharing a file fish. The one tank was overrun with aiptasia a month later cleaned house.  We rotate him because it likes go after the hermits when all the aiptasia is gone.

Looking forward for more updates, fingers crossed 👍