How to remove Aiptasia! Berghia Nudibranchs a solution without side effects!
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Aiptasia removal has never been so easy and rewarding! In this video, I'll show you how to get rid of aiptasia anemones and set up a Berghia Nudibranch farm. So you can eliminate your Aiptasia in your reef tank for good. All you need is a couple fish tanks, heaters, air pumps, and a light. Eventually, every reefer has to face this problem. Aiptasia will sting and kill your corals. That’s why aiptasia removal is so important if they get introduced into your reef tank. They also spread throughout your tank very quickly. This can lead to the feeling of hopelessness, because of how difficult they are to effectively clear from your saltwater tank. These small glass anemones are not very attractive as well. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of natural methods to get rid of them. And products like aiptasia x and kalkwasser may not remove all of them. These aiptasia-killing sea slugs are nature’s answer to this pest that has plagued the aquarium hobby for years. They will kill aiptasia better than peppermint shrimp and copperband butterflyfish. Unfortunately, Berghia Nudibranchs have been too expensive for the average hobbyist to get for their tanks. They have also been very difficult to find. Until now! Once these nudibranch get in your tank they will kill all the pest anemones permanently. By having a separate farm of them, you can also make money by selling them to fellow reef hobbyists! As these sea slugs will lay eggs every 12 days. So you will have a constant supply as they grow into adults.
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TimeStamps:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Cleaning out old fishtank
01:52 Why Berghia are the best option
04:58 Why you should breed Berghia
07:12 Setting up a Berghia farm
09:39 Setting up Aiptasia farm
11:00 Seeding the tanks
12:54 Maintaining the Berghia farm
14:52 Lifecycle of Berghia nudibranchs
15:20 What to do with the slugs
16:19 Outro/Cool Berghia clips
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thank you so much for watching!
Hey Layne, so I’m trying to farm Aiptasia for the first time. Setup a 20 high, have a glass lid, led grow light, decent size air stone, couple bags black gravel and a heater which you are correct in that it’s super hard to dial in. I have a laser thermometer which is great backup but, I did order 2 heater controllers for the 20 and 10.
Anyways, i seeded the tank with about 2 dozen Aiptasia and I have to tell ya, 2 days later and that water is got a bit of a funky smell to it. Is there a reason why you shouldn’t add a small live rock to it? Also, the byproducts,(waste from feeding and what not). Are you sure some type of skimmer is not necessary? Thanks !
Hey S2minute the main reason is it acts as a hiding spot. So it can make it difficult for collection purposes. As long as the pump ls intake is covered to prevent access to them it should be fine. The only reason in my original build to not use a protein skimmer was to keep cost as low as possible. However the biggest drawback to this system is water changes. I now recommend if its possible to keep these system inline with a main tank system. As it keeps all the parameters in check reducing maintenance to the bare minimum at the same time keeping the health as high as possible. The only real worry is a few stray aiptasia may end up in the rest of the system. However its negated as you always have nudibranchs to eat any strays. Im going to do an updated video of these changes to my aiptasia farm in the future. The tanks I had in this video definitely work but do require more work but save some costs of gear. My new inline system if possible is the best. As its cheaper, less maintenance and the healthiest in the long run. Good luck let me know how it works out!
Extremely accurate and informative video. Tagging this for future reference. This guy knows his stuff. Please make more videos like this!
Thanks Ryan for the comment! I will keep making more videos.
So Cool Layne! The DeMarco Family is so proud of you!
Thanks Victor
Another killer video. Awesome edits and super informative!
Thanks for the comment Shannon
Seriously. I learn so much with every video I watch
I’m glad you learned something from it!
dude your editing is insane now
Thanks Jeremy!
Very cool and informative video. I was wondering how I would go about starting my farm, this is just what I needed. Awesome job.
Thanks! Good luck with your farm 👍
Fascinating! I learned quite a bit and appreciate all the tips!
Thanks!
Super informative! Strange little creatures but boy are they hard workers with an appetite!
Thanks! Yeah there definitely pretty hungry little guys.
I’m going to subscribe because of how impressive this was.
Thanks!
Excellent video man! Lots of good info here
Great video again! Good quality and very informative
Thanks DJ for the support!
He’s back with a banger vid
Thanks Fish Nerds!
Very informative video! Keep them coming!
Thanks for the support Jennifer!
Crazy good shots for something so small!
Thanks!
I don't own a reef tank, but watching your video made me want to purchase a reef tank and voluntarily give myself an Aiptasia problem just so I can fix it with the Berghia Nudibranch solution.
Really appreciate hearing your comment Winter Borne! This is one of my main intents in making videos is sharing with others my passion of reef keeping. Especially when they reach an audience that may not have thought about it others wise. Its a very enjoyable hobby in so many ways.
Quality informative content. Keep it coming.
Thanks Scooter Glass!
So I noticed you all are breeding the slugs in a single tank. As opposed to what I've read, separating the eggs from the actual slugs. They say the water must not smell like grown slugs to a point where you shouldn't even use the same tools for slug tank and spawn tank. Maybe I'll just try the one-tank-method this time then, since breeding them didn't work out this time. Which was a surprise, since 10 years earlier it just worked with minmal efford. Which means me breeding them in tiny cups from 5 slugs to like 60-100 slugs without heater or air in a few weeks.
Awesome video, and great information!
Thanks Jeremy!
Absolutely, ABSOLUTELY, AMAZING VIDEO!!! Check marks and thumbs up to everything!!!
Thanks so much for the support Sho!
Layne’s hair is everything!!!
Thanks, I have a great hairstylist 😉
I always love cute aquarium guys 😍
I noticed an aptashia about 6 months ago and removed the small rock it was on. Several months later I saw several more aptashia so I researched youtube and learned about this slug. I order 4 and they arrived. They were small. I never saw them again. Aptashia would be seen from time to time but would disappear and then would pop up somewhere else. Tonight I saw one of the slugs moving around. It was huge. Not sure if this is the only one left after this many months but it's certainly keeping the aptashia under control.
Ya they can hide well at times. They do have a ferocious appetite!
Hey brother. That was a great video.
Thanks so much Reef SYS!
Nice job. I’ve sent the link to my gaming group. I know some of them will find this interesting.
Thanks for the support!
This is so cool I wish I had the room to set up this farm. My tank is infested with aiptasia berghias would have a feast
Super interesting video!
Thanks!
I agree! :)
Thanks!
Great content Layne❤🪸😎📸
Hey man good video do I have to worry about predatory fish like a six line eating the slugs?
I have had varied success with peppermint shrimp. Filefish did a bang up job but I've heard they nip at polyps. Great vid!
Peppermint shrimp seem to work great for some and not at all for others. So much so it seems that some reefers have suggested a possibility of different species or location of collection that dictates their hunger for aiptasia. I bet Filefish would be great at removal. Ive been considering getting a Filefish once my new reef is really established. A nibble hear and there might be worth it once colonies are established. At the moment I would be heartbroken to come home to my filefish with a belly full of high end frags. Lol They are really cool fish. Thanks for the feedback Algae Warrior!
I just subscribed. Very nice video. you're so young and so experienced already. I have trouble keeping coral alive! :( I've lost so many. What 'clubs' or private reefers have these Berghia's for sale? I'd like to find some.
Those little aphasia are so invasive. Wow!
Yeah it’s crazy they can definitely pretty out of control.
Hi Layne Wilson, do you think you could host these in a divided tank rather than two separate tanks? I was going to have the my auto water change feed the tank with the aiptasia and then have the water overflow into the Berghia nudibranch section and then have the overflow drop to drain? Do the berghia nudibranchs explore everywhere or not really? If this wouldn't work, how do you think a breeder net would work to hold the aiptasia or would the berghia pass through the netting? Thanks in advance! I'm determined to set up a system to get this to work based on your video.
I love the intro. Felt like a movie into
Thanks really appreciate the comment Brian!
Good job bud 👍🏼
Appreciate it S2minute!
Great video the clips of the slugs were really good. How did you get those shots?
The nudibranches I got were actually really small about 1/4 inch. I used a zeiss 100 macro lens. With the camera on a tripod. The tricky part was lighting them to use a lower f stop. Then sped the timeline so it wasn’t 45 minute clip. Lol
Very informative video! Those little suckers aint cheap! I am buying some today. I wish I knew someone close by that had them! I thought of setting up a small tank for the nudis with some of my zoa frags or do you think they will eat them in the main tank that the aptasia is in? I know the like to stay hidden but maybe when supply runs out they will go after the zoas that have the aptasia in them in the main tank! What do you think? I saw reef dudes do that and they are all in my zoas! I would rather not go through the hassel of setting up the small tank if they will just eventually get to them!
The nudis will only eat aptasia. They will hunt any of them in between zoas. But after they have cleared the tank they will starve to death. So you don’t have to worry about them eating any coral at all.
You still making aquarium videos? I enjoyed this.
Congratulations on the 200 subscribers
I very much appreciate the support!
What kind of setups or pets do you have Fish Nerds?
I have 2 ponds one predatory a African chichi tank a green spotted puffer full saltwater and a 80 gallon reef tank
Awesome I just subscribed and checking out your channel. Thats really cool! I love koi thats definitely on my one day list. Lol How old are your ponds?
I watched all your videos nice job on those ponds and good luck with your bully clownfish!
your gonna blow up one day keep it up.
Thanks!
awesome video bro
Thanks!
Wow, those slugs are kinda creepy! But somehow also adorable?
They are kinda cute in a very strange way lol
Nice video.
I usually use Copperband butterflyfish, next time I will try it 😁
Thanks Semilir TV! They work really well at cleaning out a tank.
Great Job!!!
Do you clean and like gravel in the tank with aiptasia?
Thanks! Yes I clean the gravel when doing water changes. I do like the gravel as it makes it really easy to just pick a piece with an aiptasia to put in the nudibranch tank. Then after its eaten clean it for possible eggs and put it back.
the part with the slugs in the bathtub had me dying! 😂
That part was fun to record lol
Great work man. I used peppermint shrimp in an old setup and it ate it all, but just like any other creature as you said, some might not even touch them. Awesome man.
Thanks! What size tank did you have the peppermint shrimp in?
@@LayneWilson was a Fluval 13.5
@@SaltFishTV Nice👍 Yeah I think it probably has to do with how much they are fed. I had some and they were super lazy. They only ever stole food from my corals mouths.
@@SaltFishTV I guess reef roids tasted better then brown jelly 😂
@@LayneWilson I’ve heard the same from others. So now I stay away from them and just go for the aiptasia X and cover them like no tomorrow lol
Quick question, new to hobby- can the nudibranch tank double as a quarantine tank for corals?
Welcome to the hobby Clever Thrusters!
Yes you could, as long as long as its isolated from your main system. Make sure it has proper filtration and water parameters for coral. Alk, calcium, magnesium...ext. If you did get some kind of pest it should be possible to transfer the nudibranchs without transferring the pests. If you are careful. Then restart the tank again putting them back in.
is there anything in tank that could take a fancy to these berghia. clean up crew or fish ect. thanks
chris
Yes Wrasses may try to eat them. But in my experience they don’t seem to actively hunt them.
Ive also heard another reefer that breeds them explain fish may nip at them but the toxins from eating aiptasia makes them spit them out. Don’t know the personal truth of that but makes sense.
Your milage may very but most reef safe inhabitants are safe to keep them with in my experience.
Yeah Layne, I have a 700gal system consisting of 3 large tanks linked together. One day after years of Aiptasia free system, seems out of no where one appears in my 150, then my 220… finally the 176 bf. Guess I’ll be farming BN 😑
That sounds like an amazing system! Sorry to hear you got aiptasia, the nudis will take care that problem in no time!
I tried to farm aiptasia just using brand new gravel and a simple takeaway bowl, it worked😂
Good stuff
Thanks
@@LayneWilson my wife has a cresty, she built her first vivarium last year and plans for second this year, new to the whole aquarium coral stuff though
Thats sounds cool. I love the plants in vivariums it adds so much to just keeping reptiles. Thats why I really love reef tanks. As its a whole ecosystem of symbiotic beautiful and interesting creatures. If your new to saltwater, patience is the key to success. Don’t chase numbers stability is far more important. What type of setup did you get?
@@LayneWilson no set up as of yet, found the gecko videos and saw a new one posted and liked the content. My wife used to have a fresh water tank when she was a kid, but I like idea of having coral someday
Thanks for watching I appreciate the support!
Hi great video, youve earned a new subscriber here ;-) These slugs are extremly pricey here in Norway about $67 for one. So I was thinking if I buy one, will it reproduce / lay eggs if you only have one slug?
Thanks! Just 1 Berghia nudibranch can lay eggs but I believe they need to mate to be fertile. So it may be possible if it lays eggs once you receive it they could hatch. I know when I originally received mine they were laying eggs the first day. They are hermaphroditic so if you have two most likely they will change sex in order to reproduce.
@@LayneWilson Okay thanks for quick replay, I will ask my LFS if they can sell me one with eggs lol. I was planning on doing same project as you did, with separate tanks with food source in one and slugs in the other. Because I already have everything to set it up anyway, and its a fun little project ;-)
After running this project for awhile I would highly recommend running both tanks in line with your main system if possible. This will greatly reduce the maintenance and increase the stability of the nudibranch farm setup. You don’t really need to worry about stray aptasia ending up in the main display because you will have the nudibranchs on hand to keep it free of them. Good luck with your new project. Post back after you get it running. If you have any more questions just ask. Thanks again happy reefing!
This is great. Much like Godvilla vs Kong, Berghia will dominate the Aiptasia. Btw, how did that cyber truck trade work out?
Thanks FortisAndFidus! The aiptasia really earn their keep. Elon is be flakey hopefully I hear back from him soon. I said I would also trade for a rocket if he’s running low on cyber trucks! 😂
peppermints are great way to remove aiptasia too
Some people seem to have a great experience with them but for me personally and a lot of people I’ve talked to only get them to work if you can figure out a way to make them hungry. I had to get rid of some because they were super lazy and would only steal coral food out of my corals mouths when I fed them. In the entire time I had them they never touched a single aiptasia.
can these be kept at low salinities? 24ppt?
Yes they should be fine.
Sorry if i missed this, so 2-4 aptasia per slug, but how often?
Each will eat about 1 a day and may die in 5-7 days without any. So you could put 1 a day for each slug. My schedule is 2-4 for each slug every 2 or 3 days. As they always have at least a few left so they never go hungry.
@@LayneWilson fantastic! appreciate it brotha! Hopefully wont need to buy any from you but I may need your contact info in the future hahaha
Good luck 👍 Let me know how it works out!
Do you have any Berghia for sale?? Really need about 2 or 3??
Not at the moment. There is a link to the place a bought mine from in the description. They should be able to hook you up. 😁
Can you comment further on your results after several weeks? The problems I have had previously is that vendors will tell you the way to introduce them is by a small group so that they will breed and then the massive colony will take care of the Aiptasia. In reality and despite what vendors tend to tell: amphipods will eat the eggs, fish like wrasses too, I have seen my "aiptasia eating" filefish decide that they were a meal as well, and shrimps will eat them too.
So if you have any of the above very common critters... are you condemned to making the setup you present and dump dozens at a time?
I will keep you posted with further results Geraud. But I can speak from previous experience with them in my 75 gallon mixed reef with lots of live rock, with an old school rock wall aquascape. I have a skunk cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp. As well as a melanurus wrasse to give you an idea of potential harmful tank inhabitants to them. I originally put 5 in the tank at night when the lights were off. That was one of the only times I saw them again. Except a couple times when the lights were off a few weeks later. I thought they died but after 3 weeks the population of aiptasia were drastically reduced. My guess is they were hunting at night hiding by day. As I never saw them except at night. I asked the local hobbyist who I got them from and he said wrasse will eat them but usually after they do they stop hunting them as they dont like the taste. (Im not sure the truth in it)After a month and a half the huge population of aiptasia were all gone and never came back. Just like most things in the hobby their are a lot of variables. My speculation is modern aquascapes with little hiding places may play a factor as well. But harder for the aiptasia to hid as well. I definitely agree that its unlikely a population of them will breed into a colony in a reef tank. Hence my recommendation if possible to set up your own farm. As most tanks do have amphipods and although they wont really harm the adults, they will eat the eggs. But some fish may have it out for them. The joy of reef keeping never ending learning process of keeping an entire eco system in a tank. Hopefully this info helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for the support!
@@LayneWilson Thank you for the honest answer. I like your idea of having two tanks dedicated to raising them and their food
Does the amphipods kill apatsia ?
Nope but a lucky aptasia might eat a amphipod! Lol
Music to loud mate. Thx for info!
Thanks for your input!👍
Question: will my fish or inverts eat my bougie slugs?
Wrasses can eat them. Even if they do some wrasses wont come back for more as they dont taste good! Lol But most inverts are fine. 👍
@@LayneWilson thanks!
No problem good luck! 👍
So I had aptaisia and got berghia, they killed all visible aptasia then started to death 💀 and a Lil while later they reappeared
On my second attempt, drilled and aux 10 gall into my system now, to grow out and breed breghia. Let see how it goes this time. I should make some videos
Sounds Awesome Pedro! How is your setup going now?
This ironically sounds like an oxymoron. Getting rid of aiptasia by farming aiptasia. Yes I get why. Those nudi’s are adorable, aiptasia not so much. Here in BC waters we have quite a number of different nudi’s. Coldwater nudi’s. They’re beautiful.
peppermints are cheaper and control aptasia pretty good
Thanks for the comment! A lot of people have great success with peppermint shrimp. While others do not, myself included. So much so that their is a debate in the reefing community their might actually be two species of peppermint shrimp. Or it may be exact location from where they are from that determines their hunger or lack of for aiptasia. . As for now their is no exact scientific information proving why some are great at removing aiptasia and others are not. The other potential thing to consider is they love eating food from corals if you feed them. Also some fish may want to eat them as they are easier prey. You are definitely right about being cheaper and may be a good solution in some instances thanks for the suggestion. 👍
I'd rather have a hair algae problem. Next by aptasia. Lastly a vermited snail problem.
I rather have no problems!!! 😂
I don't suppose you live in Ohio? I'll drive, pay, and pick some up from you right now. Have you started your own sales site for them yet?
Thanks for the support Matthew. No I don’t live in Ohio or have any berghia sale online. I would recommend saltyunderground.com if you need to order them online. This is who I got my order from. They were all healthy, arrived quickly and were packaged well. I have a link in the description to their website.
Nudi "branches" or Nudi "bronks" ?
www.reddit.com/r/scuba/comments/823gph/what_is_the_correct_pronunciation_of_nudibranch/?
Depends lol
Not all. Bergia is a good approach, but temporary. Bergias multiply rapidly. After the bergias eat all Aiptasia, they starve to death. And after 2-3 months Aiptasia come back again :(
I was able to eradicate mine with a combination of Bergia and manual removal/ F aiptasia.
yeah -easierthan it is. i tried it . not much improvement....my fishes/crabs etc. eating my berghias :)
Yeah fvk em