Nudibranchs are so damn cool. The come in so many varieties, are often gorgeous, and quite usefull in the environments they unhabit. If i ever got into aquariums and taking care of marine life gastropods, cephlopods, and crustaceans would be my preferred options.
Yeah same here. Me and my mum started scuba diving and after sometime after getting wowed by big beasties, we started looking for smaller things. Nudibrach. Very colourful. We even went night diving in tropics and found the ' Spanish dancer' wow very cool. We found one every night for 3 nights!
yeah :( a lot of them are super specialized feeders that feed on slow growing coral or sponges that make it really inefficient to farm. We don't even know what a lot nudibranch species even eat. My hope is to one day is to raise a tank of GSP eating nudribranchs since it looks like GSPs can grow rather quickly.
We used to have thousands in our tank and the way my mom got rid of them was literally just yanking out every single one once a day for a month she also moved all of her live rocks around every day to check for them we had the same problem with little white starfish but somehow more than the aphasia and got rid of them the same way just throwing them out nonstop
@@DanielHollingsworth because they attach to rocks and stuff, and if even the smallest piece of them is left behind, they can grow back, and even worse, the pieces from ripping it off can spread it all over the tank and cause an even worse problem
With nudibranchs that eat the aiptasia, it’s more like a never ending campaign against a badly beaten enemy, just a matter of staying on top of things. Likely the aiptasia won’t reproduce quickly enough to support all 5 of them if they’re still all there, but 2-3 or whatever will end up being long term residents and while he won’t really see or care about aiptasia, it will keep kicking around for quite a while . If it does fully get beaten, then nudis will die too and then it’ll be a matter of time before some other addition tracks more in, rinse and repeat
@@riverpubbyMan just vanished from the tank. Not a single bit of his body was found. I have a feeling that he told kaiju "my time has come, you must continue this journey without me" and vanished...
From experience. You have to starve the shrimp, so they become ravenous But yes. Mostly free loaders. My dad has some spawn, they all went to the sump 😂
@@joshyoung1440 lul gonna leaf it just like that 4 u. Wear You ax? Not their, not hear. But up they're. Where 1.4k people like ravenous shlimp. Happy Father's day "Josh". -ps my older brother, who's actual name was Josh, died from cancer in 2019. RIP
@@maya_void3923 Other options weren't working. If he was going to let the aiptasia grow, they could easily threaten all the fish in the tank, which is a much worse outcome than letting just five nudibranchs die.
I have been watching your videos for this entire year, amazed you can keep tanks like this in your home. Since then I have gotten into reefing, and am setting up my second reef tank currently. Thanks for inspiring me dude
I love how you approach your points with an open mind and empathy! I’ve seen a lot of deeply cynical commentary, so your channel is a breath of fresh air✨Just subbed
Sadly, Berghia nudibranchs are realistically the only true nudibranchs you can keep in an aquarium. Individual nudibranch species are highly specialized in what they prey on, with the prey typically being inaccessible in the hobby or unknown to science. This means that most nudibranchs starve to death in aquaria. There are also a few other sea slugs in the hobby that are not classified as nudibranchs, but these are also specialized feeders. Even though Berghia nudibranchs only consume Aiptasia anemones and nothing else, these anemones are common enough and reproduce fast enough that you can maintain a breeding population of Berghia nudibranchs in captivity.
@@maya_void3923 Those lettuce sea slugs aren’t true nudibranchs, but I digress. My guess is that they may have starved, which is normally what happens to them after they deplete the algae in their tank. I remember in previous videos that this RUclipsr was aware of this risk. I don’t think this RUclipsr is heartless, but it’s sad that the lives of certain organisms, especially invertebrates, are not valued very highly. I do admit that hundreds of bristleworms, amphipods, and micro brittle stars die every time I prune and remove macroalgae from my own tank, but I can’t really stop that from happening.
Aiptasia File fish did the trick for me. I got one of those and it got rid of all of it. He’s still alive to this day and takes well to frozen and flake food
The main thing that seems to keep me from wanting fish, aside from being scared of messing up water quality, is how many horror stories I've heard about parasites over taking tanks. Otherwise, if I had salt water tank money, I'd have a giant salt tank of mainly cleaner shrimp bc they are 10/10 best shrimp.
Apparently they eat a lot more than one would think. If they're already down to one aptasia polyp... there's a chance they may starve to death before enough new polyps grow.
I’ve read from comment on reddit that having another small tank with aphasia to feed the slugs. You can have rocks in that tank and just swap the rocks around
IIRC I feel like on your short about getting the previous lettuce slug (? I think it was called that), a BUNCH of informed people outlined a number of reasons they were gonna die… so the reasons probably aren’t THAT “unknown.” It would have been good to see you acknowledge your possible role in their loss, as it might prevent others from doing the same thing.
I think that by enumerating several possible causes - " . . . or even torn up by one of the pumps I have." he acknowledged his potential culpability regarding the disappearance of the previous contingent of slugs. Why must you adopt such a critical stance? A marine tank thrives only when its curator can induce a delicate ecological balance. Perhaps the lettuce slugs were unfortunate victims, whose demise made possible the survival of the community writ large. Maybe they were et by one or more of their neighbors in the tank. Maybe they still live, having escaped by some unknown route, or were killed inadvertently by the mechanical infrastructure. OP admitted freely that he doesn't know what killed them, and the word he used was "unknown ." He never even said it wasn't his fault. Why do you feel he should take responsibility when he may not actually be at fault? If you weren't present to witness the event, you don't know any better than OP what really occurred. My take on this is that YOU ought to have remained silent, despite potentially being perceived as a fool. Your cavalier accusation has removed any doubt. 😂👉🤡 😂👉 @ethernetgirl2001, @Feverm00n
I just realized this is the aquatic version of the immortal snail philosophical The Opia is literally a immortal but there is a slug that has developed itself to counter it perfectly
This is emotional to me, since I had an aquarium devastated by Aiptasia years ago (I was inexperienced and didn’t know or understand what to do.) Nice work.
This is my first impression of you..and I saw that tank!!! With the corals!! I died and came back and came to the comments to show my appreciation. ❤🎉 amazing
Congrats ! That's always a tough battle! There's an electrode device that's really good for getting 1 to 4 a day, good way to make sure they don't spread again
Whoo hooo!!!! Finally after all this time! Sucks the white stuff didn't work, but these guys did! 🥰 But now what do they eat? Or do they just serve their pouporse, and pass away? 🥺 Just one to go!! Leave you evil thing! 😭
When I had a salt water tank I also had this like, yellow and white stripped flat-ish fish, it would eat all of those, only after it died the tank got a really bad infestation, the issue with this fish is it would eat every other little fish or shrimp that we had in there, so we couldn’t keep any little guys
That’s always been the risk with using live rocks. No matter how much the stores treat the water, or at least claim to, prior to selling you’re still just rolling the dice 🎲.
I have no idea why this popped up on my feed but nevertheless I found this fascinating. Hopefully they were finally eradicated! In a way I know how you feel. I was battling an issue with closet moths which kept coming back each time I thought I had gotten rid of them 😫 but finally they went away.
As with any ecosystem, predation will never completely solve a pest issue due to cyclic predator/prey numbers, but as long as you maintain the nudibranch colony, I can guarantee they'll keep the aptasia at a manageable level
For months I have see the updates about you trying to cure your tank from the std it has and I’ve been filled with joy every time I happen to scroll along it
Man I got a sea hare and he was one of my favorite things in the reef tank.. he was a lil busy guy.. When he would kind of tuck himself into his body.. You could look for an hour and not find him.. Literally looks like a lil rock.. Make sure you have enough in the tank for them to eat....
i work at an aquarium and we recently did a deep clean on our stingray tank that had become overrun with the stuff. we cleaned it very differently though and it was a two week long, all hands on deck process. lots of tank draining.
![I.N "HALLUCINATION" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n5B5q1Hwt_U/mqdefault.jpg)
_hands money to slugs_
"Make it clean. Leave the kid..."
*Slug takes money and nods* 🐌
A single slug crouching on a powerline with the moon behind him.
😅😅😅😅😅
@@parkertulk7485That slug underwent so much torment and pain for its village too. 😢
Nice reference @@parkertulk7485
😂
When he says he bought 5 in case he loses one or two that makes me think of "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
🤣🤣🤣 rishi sunak is also adopting that mindset!🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
Isn’t that from shrek lol or am I wrong 😂
@@laynedudas1026 lord farquad or however you spell it, yes🤣
An Elite team of slugs
Good for you! I don't know why I was so invested, but I'm genuinely glad
Same
Same 😂
Same lol. I didnt subscribe but i was hoping to see the end.
same
Same
My man had to call in the special forces for this fight 😂
Bro called in slug team 6 😂
😊😊😊
@@TheAbysssarianaptasia bin laden
@@MrkrabbssLMFAOOO slug team 6 🤣🤣🤣
@@Mrkrabbss 😂
Shrimp freeloading is the most adorable thing I’ve heard and seen 😂😂
Nudibranchs are so damn cool. The come in so many varieties, are often gorgeous, and quite usefull in the environments they unhabit. If i ever got into aquariums and taking care of marine life gastropods, cephlopods, and crustaceans would be my preferred options.
Yeah same here. Me and my mum started scuba diving and after sometime after getting wowed by big beasties, we started looking for smaller things. Nudibrach. Very colourful. We even went night diving in tropics and found the ' Spanish dancer' wow very cool. We found one every night for 3 nights!
Nudibranch are so cool. I've heard they're hard to keep in captivity. Granted I'm over here struggling to keep succulents alive, soooo... 🤷🏼♀️
yeah :( a lot of them are super specialized feeders that feed on slow growing coral or sponges that make it really inefficient to farm. We don't even know what a lot nudibranch species even eat. My hope is to one day is to raise a tank of GSP eating nudribranchs since it looks like GSPs can grow rather quickly.
But if they only eat aiptasia, what will they eat when the aiptasia is gone? They just starve or...?
But once the nudibranch eats all the aptasia in the tank what will they eat? Won't they just starve?
Lol the peppermint shrimp look like they're having the best time of their lives
Thats how id be...lol😅
They never showed up for work. Lol
*speaking with mouth full of food to other shrimp*
"I told you things would start looking up Tom, you gotta focus on the positives"
If they don't want to work then it's shrimp fried rice.
They look like shrimp sitting in water..
We used to have thousands in our tank and the way my mom got rid of them was literally just yanking out every single one once a day for a month she also moved all of her live rocks around every day to check for them we had the same problem with little white starfish but somehow more than the aphasia and got rid of them the same way just throwing them out nonstop
thats badass lol and it totally worked did it? it didnt come back? or did that method just keep it down and under control?
@@sanjayw9878 it’s years later now and there are zero starfish same tank same three fish same live rocks
So those are starfish that they're trying to get rid of?
@@MinnieSpencer no, those are polyps in the video
@@DanielHollingsworth because they attach to rocks and stuff, and if even the smallest piece of them is left behind, they can grow back, and even worse, the pieces from ripping it off can spread it all over the tank and cause an even worse problem
Oh boy. It ain't over til it's over my friend - considering how many times you thought you got it, I wouldn't be so quick to think it's finished.
I think the battle is nearly over but the war has just begun
I think that he's actually defeated them however he's gonna just keep a little alive so he can keep milking this for the RUclips $$$
@@just_a_tophat5759smart move really 👍
With nudibranchs that eat the aiptasia, it’s more like a never ending campaign against a badly beaten enemy, just a matter of staying on top of things. Likely the aiptasia won’t reproduce quickly enough to support all 5 of them if they’re still all there, but 2-3 or whatever will end up being long term residents and while he won’t really see or care about aiptasia, it will keep kicking around for quite a while . If it does fully get beaten, then nudis will die too and then it’ll be a matter of time before some other addition tracks more in, rinse and repeat
That’s what she said
The vibes just haven't been the same since my guy Dom passed. RIP a real one 🙏🏾
???
@@Shixaaldom was a fish that this creator kept with his mantis shrimp. Dom unfortunately passed away a lil while ago.
@@riverpubbyMan just vanished from the tank. Not a single bit of his body was found. I have a feeling that he told kaiju "my time has come, you must continue this journey without me" and vanished...
@@kL07_bro disintegrated
@@riverpubby Oh he's that idiot?
Them nudibranches took up farming that's why there's one polyp
yeah, gotta keep those food coming. Also job security 😂
Aquarium guy hired a hit squad to solve his little problem. A clean-up crew, some would say.
They was saving that little bit for later.
*were
From experience. You have to starve the shrimp, so they become ravenous
But yes. Mostly free loaders. My dad has some spawn, they all went to the sump 😂
They just congregated into the filter huh? 😂 Maybe that’s where my shrimp went too.
*ravenous, the bird is a raven, not a ravan lol
@@joshyoung1440 lul gonna leaf it just like that 4 u. Wear You ax? Not their, not hear. But up they're. Where 1.4k people like ravenous shlimp.
Happy Father's day "Josh".
-ps my older brother, who's actual name was Josh, died from cancer in 2019. RIP
This comment is aneurism inducing
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 andyourizm is with dun tooke me mums new boifrend.
You only hate it because you can read it🤣
Have you seen the little guys?? Hopefully they're still chompin around where you can't see!!
No. They're gone. There's nothing left to eat, so they can't survive. This guy really doesn't care about their lives.
@@WobblesandBeanthis is so cruel they were so cute i hate this channel now
@@maya_void3923 Other options weren't working. If he was going to let the aiptasia grow, they could easily threaten all the fish in the tank, which is a much worse outcome than letting just five nudibranchs die.
@@WobblesandBeanWould you rather have the fish in the rest of the tank die? This was a no win situation, that happens in nature.
@@maya_void3923 so whiny
Never admit victory, you might soon find yourself declaring defeat
He said he won the battle, not once has he ever stated that he won the war.
Thank you, Socrates 💪💪
222 👍
Its a weird little alien battle. I love it!
That pump looks terrifying if i was a fish, it looks like a blender
Remember. Every 6 months add more slugs. 🤣
Oh? Do they not breed fast enough to keep it going?
@@SpecialInterestShow they all get nosey and slither into the pump to be ground up
@@PainElemental * sighs that my first thought was 'yeah, mood, I' d probably die so quick' *
Oh.
This guy has had a whole arc fighting that tank parasite
Filter sponges on the externals of pumps too, they will help significantly with accidental losses
I have been watching your videos for this entire year, amazed you can keep tanks like this in your home. Since then I have gotten into reefing, and am setting up my second reef tank currently. Thanks for inspiring me dude
I got a puffer fish once, he ate all them in no time.
I love how you approach your points with an open mind and empathy! I’ve seen a lot of deeply cynical commentary, so your channel is a breath of fresh air✨Just subbed
Slugs said “lemme slide right on in😚”
A then all you here is *paper shredding noises*
I’ve only ever done fresh water mostly bc of the price difference but salt water has always looked so cool. Even your pests look cool and interesting
Was the "they ONLY eat" the parasites supposed to be exaggeration? Cause if its true how are they gonna live once the parasites are gone
You’re so right 😭
Looked up the name of the nudibranch, and they really do only eat that specifc anemone. Granted once its all gone, he wont need the slugs anymore
@@hokyosei right, it just feels kinda mean to just let em starve idk
@@deppygcreations784 yeah nudibranches are SO cute it'd make me so sad if he just lets them die after helping him :/
The nudibranchs or the entire tank, your choice
I wouldn’t declare the war won just yet.
Nudibranchs are so freaking cute they're the only reason I want a salt water tank XD
Sadly, Berghia nudibranchs are realistically the only true nudibranchs you can keep in an aquarium. Individual nudibranch species are highly specialized in what they prey on, with the prey typically being inaccessible in the hobby or unknown to science. This means that most nudibranchs starve to death in aquaria. There are also a few other sea slugs in the hobby that are not classified as nudibranchs, but these are also specialized feeders.
Even though Berghia nudibranchs only consume Aiptasia anemones and nothing else, these anemones are common enough and reproduce fast enough that you can maintain a breeding population of Berghia nudibranchs in captivity.
But he made them die, it's awful he doesn't care about their life
@@maya_void3923 Those lettuce sea slugs aren’t true nudibranchs, but I digress. My guess is that they may have starved, which is normally what happens to them after they deplete the algae in their tank. I remember in previous videos that this RUclipsr was aware of this risk. I don’t think this RUclipsr is heartless, but it’s sad that the lives of certain organisms, especially invertebrates, are not valued very highly. I do admit that hundreds of bristleworms, amphipods, and micro brittle stars die every time I prune and remove macroalgae from my own tank, but I can’t really stop that from happening.
Aiptasia File fish did the trick for me. I got one of those and it got rid of all of it. He’s still alive to this day and takes well to frozen and flake food
You won the battle, but did you win the war?
The main thing that seems to keep me from wanting fish, aside from being scared of messing up water quality, is how many horror stories I've heard about parasites over taking tanks. Otherwise, if I had salt water tank money, I'd have a giant salt tank of mainly cleaner shrimp bc they are 10/10 best shrimp.
these little guys are so adorable 🥰
Oh, those are nice results!! Keep us updated! 🎉
When you said “if you wanna see something with actual quality” and then the recommended was “the worst drivers of all time” lol
When there is no more aphasia, do the slugs die of starvation?
Yes, but what are the odds they get every single bit of it before it spreads more
Apparently they eat a lot more than one would think. If they're already down to one aptasia polyp... there's a chance they may starve to death before enough new polyps grow.
@@Staple_Tapeworms From what I've heard, this is what usually happens. And then more polyps immediately start spreading.
@@Reddotzebra that's hilarious
I’ve read from comment on reddit that having another small tank with aphasia to feed the slugs. You can have rocks in that tank and just swap the rocks around
Sea slugs are the party animals of the sea. They always look like they are headed to a rave 😂
The little slugs are adorable
That’s crazy also you should have gotten 10 of those because that filter look big and is most likely why they first ones all died
Was like a cliffhanger! 😂 Glad they did their job!
Life finds a way. You better get rid of that polyp
Id have kept a small portion to grow as food for the new friends
Damn, i remember it was a long while ago i saw your first vid abt this, never thought youre still fighting em buggers
IIRC I feel like on your short about getting the previous lettuce slug (? I think it was called that), a BUNCH of informed people outlined a number of reasons they were gonna die… so the reasons probably aren’t THAT “unknown.” It would have been good to see you acknowledge your possible role in their loss, as it might prevent others from doing the same thing.
sadly we know he wont
I think that by enumerating several possible causes - " . . . or even torn up by one of the pumps I have." he acknowledged his potential culpability regarding the disappearance of the previous contingent of slugs. Why must you adopt such a critical stance? A marine tank thrives only when its curator can induce a delicate ecological balance. Perhaps the lettuce slugs were unfortunate victims, whose demise made possible the survival of the community writ large.
Maybe they were et by one or more of their neighbors in the tank. Maybe they still live, having escaped by some unknown route, or were killed inadvertently by the mechanical infrastructure. OP admitted freely that he doesn't know what killed them, and the word he used was "unknown ." He never even said it wasn't his fault. Why do you feel he should take responsibility when he may not actually be at fault? If you weren't present to witness the event, you don't know any better than OP what really occurred. My take on this is that YOU ought to have remained silent, despite potentially being perceived as a fool. Your cavalier accusation has removed any doubt. 😂👉🤡
😂👉 @ethernetgirl2001, @Feverm00n
Lmao ugh
I've been following this saga from my recommended videos and I'm glad to see it has come to a conclusion.
He bought 5 of them because "since when did Shepherd ever care about danger close"
I just realized this is the aquatic version of the immortal snail philosophical
The Opia is literally a immortal but there is a slug that has developed itself to counter it perfectly
"a single spore can wipe out an entire civilization!"
This is emotional to me, since I had an aquarium devastated by Aiptasia years ago (I was inexperienced and didn’t know or understand what to do.) Nice work.
Aptasia sounds like an app Disney created celebrating its fantasia movies
This is my first impression of you..and I saw that tank!!! With the corals!! I died and came back and came to the comments to show my appreciation. ❤🎉 amazing
Glad to see some measure of resolution to this. Was hoping it wasn't a whole "once you have it, you're doomed" sort of deal.
I love how compared to freshwater tanks, saltwaters just get infested with tentacles whenever you turn your gaze away
the elite troop has been rolled out
Aptasia, seeing your new "fish": OH NO!!!
Aptasia after a few weeks: my death was greatly exaggerated.
This is actually really sad, because surely the slugs have died now if that was their only source of food and it's pretty much gone??
This is the best news I've heard all year
Congrats ! That's always a tough battle! There's an electrode device that's really good for getting 1 to 4 a day, good way to make sure they don't spread again
dang those little dude are beasts
This has been a really interesting battle you deserve to be followed for more
So what they’ll eat now?
It will probably come back
If no resurgence.... nothing.....
The freeloading peppermint shrimp SENT ME! 😂😂😂😂
Whoo hooo!!!! Finally after all this time! Sucks the white stuff didn't work, but these guys did! 🥰 But now what do they eat? Or do they just serve their pouporse, and pass away? 🥺
Just one to go!! Leave you evil thing! 😭
So, you had an anemone invasion?
What will the slugs eat now?
😅
Nothing
the slugs will be retired to a big farm upstate
The infection at the top was actually vile
Dude finally let’s go 🎉🎉🎉🎉
My dude called them newdi-branches like a tree lmao 😂
the shrimps were like "wooo a new home, free buffet!"
Gastrodon was super effective!
i’m glad you gave those slugs a buffet 😂
Could’ve gotten two or 3 peppermint shrimp for that 😂 and those shrimp u got was a fake peppermint shrimp
When I had a salt water tank I also had this like, yellow and white stripped flat-ish fish, it would eat all of those, only after it died the tank got a really bad infestation, the issue with this fish is it would eat every other little fish or shrimp that we had in there, so we couldn’t keep any little guys
That’s always been the risk with using live rocks. No matter how much the stores treat the water, or at least claim to, prior to selling you’re still just rolling the dice 🎲.
omg astro ur vids are sooo good i bought all ur merch and then burnt it
The peppermint shrimp are the true winners in this story.
That one getting sucked up in the dropper probably thought it was getting abducted by an alien.
You may have won the battle, but will you win the war?
Some animator out there: please make an animation depicting this story! That shrimp part especially needs to be in animated form.
I have no idea why this popped up on my feed but nevertheless I found this fascinating. Hopefully they were finally eradicated! In a way I know how you feel. I was battling an issue with closet moths which kept coming back each time I thought I had gotten rid of them 😫 but finally they went away.
The shrimps looked like frat bros 😂
The invasion of the Slugs to those Parasites. Glad you managed to maintain it, them slugs man can do wonders
So what will the nudibranchs eat now that the aptasia are essentially gone?
As with any ecosystem, predation will never completely solve a pest issue due to cyclic predator/prey numbers, but as long as you maintain the nudibranch colony, I can guarantee they'll keep the aptasia at a manageable level
regardless of the parasites those slugs are adorable. i sure hope they didnt get torn up in the pumps lol
This guy must do water changes like once a year I swear
nudibranchs are my favorite animal!! so happy to see them assisting you!
These are like aquarium warts. As soon as you think it's over, it's not over... 😂
Depth charges work wonders
Frank taught me one thing, and it’s that if a nudibranch can’t do it, no one can
For months I have see the updates about you trying to cure your tank from the std it has and I’ve been filled with joy every time I happen to scroll along it
Have you tried an aptasia eating file fish?
Man I got a sea hare and he was one of my favorite things in the reef tank.. he was a lil busy guy.. When he would kind of tuck himself into his body.. You could look for an hour and not find him.. Literally looks like a lil rock.. Make sure you have enough in the tank for them to eat....
Imagine trying to loot a base and like twenty spergs pour out of it, spears raised and chanting memes and monkey noises
i work at an aquarium and we recently did a deep clean on our stingray tank that had become overrun with the stuff. we cleaned it very differently though and it was a two week long, all hands on deck process. lots of tank draining.
I like that red marker a lot, it’s almost orange tinted or at least it looks that way on camera.
Those sea slug things are adorable
Wait, if that's all they feed on, and you're using them to get rid of it, then does that mean they'll starve to death after they've gotten rid of it??
Bro really said
“Slugs! Assemble!”
Glad youtube rec'd these bc im invested and hope this solved it!