SAME

I wanna know who wins this war

im not gonna rest till that aptasia is gone

@noneofyourbusiness6210 no🗿

THIS! now we have sea bunnies to ogle

Have I missed a Hawaiian history chapter?

Mongoose eating gorillas?💀

@@Indoraptor_2012 they mean gorillas that eat Mongoose. Lol I was confused by their wording for a second too.

​@@ExhaustedScarf Well, let's just say they have incredibly strict animal import laws for a reason. Long story short, invasive dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs and rats can seriously ruin an island ecosystem's day, and every intervention they made to fix the situation backfired spectacularly. Most famous of all (so famous that Pokemon of all places has a reference to it) is them importing mongooses to combat sugarcane-eating rats, only to discover that mongooses didn't want to hunt rats. They did, however, love eating the island's beautiful endemic birds. This is also the reason Australia has insane prices for some fish. They can't be imported and have to be supplied from a breeder, which is much costlier than Brazil's "set an entire river as a breeding tank, then scoop a couple hundred thousand spare fry every year" approach. (Which is honestly genius as it both protects the environment by making the river a source of revenue and allows mass harvesting of popular aquarium fish without crashing the populations).

​@@kips8156that still doesn't make sense

He’s explained in previous videos that aiptasia can regrow from any small fragments that might break off from disturbing them, which would make the problem worse.

@@hockeypan8066 I'd rather have a tank blooming with perfect-sized food for my specific predators than one with just a few too-big examples of the prey species. The adults are going to keep propagating whether you yank them or not.

I had to educate myself deeper about this species (Berghia), but it appears they will be able to handle most of the adults just fine. These suckers attack the base of the aptasia they are gonna eat, cause it to retract, and then start munching. And you definitely don't want to rip aptasia out mechanically, they evolved to jettison polyps when threatened, and can regrow from bits and parts you failed to pluck. Its lose lose. If I were to have to remove one manually, I would "face blast" (it does work, but can be tricky to learn how to get the aptasia to willingly and correctly accept that first glug of death that causes it to spasm and contract just the right way.) There are two issues with these nudibranch's that I see, including one or two that might need that face blast: 1) The Berghia might not be able to get to the ones set up in the weirs of the overflow, unless they are unlike all other nudibranch species and don't get blown away if you look at them too strongly. Similar issue if there are any aptasia near powerheads. And of course, if there are tubes, a sump, etc, the Bergia can't get to any aptasia that have established there. 2) This is kinda a race between starvation of the Berghia and the available number of Aptasia in the tank that they can access. It will take weeks to happen, but there usually comes a point where they have eaten all they can access, and even if there are a few mature aptasia in the system where they cannot access popping out polyps back into the display area of the tank regularly, they don't prove enough for the Berghia to survive on.

@@hockeypan8066 “Take out the big ones because nudibranchs will eat the small ones” “But if you take out the big ones they’ll break off into small ones so don’t do that” You see how that makes no sense?

I guess if they arent hurting anything this works. I would have replaced the tank

Yeah try this it’s so rad

Set phasers to aphasia kill strength and phaser them. Freakn easy fix.

Eyooo that sounds so awesome, I wanna see it !!

The slug deal

They straight up look like something corrupted in a game. Long gangly tentacles, with a dark tone, ew.

@@fallen_angelmemesforlife9172 Exactly! Like a corruption.

I wanna know how tall he is

The aptasia is beautiful wdym

@@annagrzebyta437 It doesn't have vibrant bright colours and looks dark and creepy. Unusual for a colourful reef tank and simply doesn't fit tbh.

RIP dom

R.I.P Dom

RIP Dom

RIP Dom

The big ones will just jettison a bunch of stuff to reproduce. Not a good idea. The slugs will figure it out

The flood is spreading

Wouldn’t that be super stressful for/possibly detrimental to his corals?

You take the rocks out and leave the corals in the tank. So not stressful, particularly when compared with being stung by aiptasia.

Well this just added to the drama for me. This is by far the best show I’m watching these days.

Needles full of heroin??

​@@shadeymcbones6707I guess you use whatever is to hand??😂

you can probably yank em off if theyre reachable and you can find them, but like a lot of those kinds of animals they just kinda shoot their gunk into the water to reproduce, so youd be playing whack-a-mole with them, that and you risk hurting the other animals. A lot of sea anemones also regenerate so physically killing them is pretty hard, usually you need to completely eat or poison or starve them to make sure they dont come back. so yeah they're like dandelions that bite

Pretty sure he mentioned in a short that he can't just rip them out because if fragments of it fall back into the tank they'll grow into new ones themselves

so damn they are like weeds. I wonder if like though you rip out the big ones and those slugs that are suppose to eat them would have an easier time. but thanks for responding.@@randomwidge7463

@@randomwidge7463yeah, youd have to get the whole thing out in one piece to not just make it worse

He doesn't want less work for the slugs. It's going to be their food

They're like tape worms, if a segment is left behind it will regrow, best to let nature deal with it.

@@dandecande I see, thanks! But what happens if they do their job and get rid of them? They die, or do you know if they eat other stuff? Sorry to assume you're an expert, just wondering if you know.

If he physically removes them there’s a possibility small chunks can go everywhere, spreading it everywhere.

@@pauli7457also I guess the slugs just chill around eating detritus (No corals hopefully) after their job is done.

unfortunately these things regrow from fragments, so manual removal just makes the problem worse.

As many have pointed out on the same question it's not about getting what you can see it's about taking out what you're not able to see. Honestly he should have given up on this tank and transported the coral a while ago. Now he's going to have to worry about the spores being on the coral so he's definitely going to need to put these in a decon tank before he can put them in any thriving ecosystem.

@@Odayian420 Ooof so the spores can accumulate so badly that even plucking out visible ones doesn’t help? Damn

@@sanddry738 the act of pulling them up is going to disperse the spores across the rest of the tank. Assuring what's not already covered will be.

@@Odayian420 ah that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it!

I too wish to know the answer to this!

If I remember correctly, these Aptasia spread like mushrooms. Meaning that even the tiniest of spores (or leftovers) will let the Aptasia regrow on multiple places. He has talked about this before iirc and said that ripping it out would make things only worse.

You gotta watch season 1 first

It can regrow from the smallest chunk and jostling it spreads the spores, so ripping out would just mean it multiplies as the bits and spores left behind sprout into more of them

@@epicwalrus7183 so he might have to do a full tank clean out if those little guys can’t get rid of it?

They leave spores and fragments that will grow into new ones, sadly. That's why he's been having so much trouble.