New Seagrass/Anemone build

[Amphiprion]

A couple updated shots as the grass reaches its zenith in terms of coverage:





I've been battling some algae issues on the grasses themselves, since the hydroids that grow on them tend to trap detritus. Adding an extra powerhead here recently really helped.

[AuroraDrvr]

Seems like since the grasses have reached their outward limits, they're starting to go up. The leaves are a lot longer than they were earlier (it looks like).

Can we predict some peppermint shrimp in your future?

[Amphiprion]

It's probably going to have to be more drastic than that, actually. There are probably 1000 of them in there. The lack of filtration encourages a lot of copeopods and other planktonic stuff, which the Aiptasia really seem to like. I'm sure the 250w of halide baking them daily isn't helping, either.

[AuroraDrvr]

3 worked perfectly in a heavily infested 90 for me. Took about 2-3 weeks but they got every one. Now I'm done to just one shrimp and I haven't seen even a tiny aiptasia in 10+ months.

Large sized specimens seem to work much better than tiny ones.

[Fishfood]

I'd give peppermint shrimp a try also. The tank at my wifes work was covered in aiptasia and from what she says it is now clear. We put in about 4 or 5 small peppermint shrimp that didn't last long with a clown fairy wrasse and didn't seem to put a dent in the aiptasia. We then ordered 6 more in a reefstogo order and they were monster sized peppermint shrimp. They survived the wrasse and I'm told she can't find an aiptasia in the tank. It had probably a hundred or so in a 65 gal tank. I'd give 1 or 2 larges ones a shot.

[Amphiprion]

I suppose I could try again. I've just never had much luck with them as many times as I've tried them. They either died or never touched any Aiptasia.