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This is the last "telling yesterday's story" post :-) . Thank you for your patience.

I will condense in this post two things that happened in the tank:

1. Put the Yellow Polyps in the tank, Mithrax crabs did try to eat them.
On June 3rd I decided to move the Yellow Polyps into the DT because my Mithrax crabs had been behaving well, weren't eating Zoa polyps anymore... so... well, the night after I added the Yellow Polyps they attacked. In the morning ...

June 25th was a very sad Saturday... I went with my kid to LFS2 to buy a plastic decoration for our QT, something that gave my exiled six-line wrasse better hiding options than the white PVC tubes I had in the QT. My kid chose a cute treasure chest with octopus, with several holes in some vases an in the chest. Would be perfect, good looking and great for hiding in.
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On June 4th at night I added two peppermint shrimp to the tank, and they gradually ate up all the Aiptasias. And there were a lot... but they got rid of them, all of them.

Well, to be honest they ate all but one, the large, no, huge, Aiptasia you saw in a previous blog post. So I decided to manually remove than one and put it in a flower vase for my amusement. This picture was after a week it was in the vase, it climbed up from the bottom to that position:
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Talking to my favorite LFS about my Aiptasia blues (which they were aware of given my shrimp purchases) one of the guys (Maciel, great guy, really) offered to lend me a fish trap, explained how to operate it and encouraged me to try.

Cool, it did seem pretty simple in theory, if I had enough patience. I'll show a picture right below, but, in summary it was an acrylic box with a sliding door. Maciel told me: "man, just put the trap in there without the door, fix it to the glass ...

In January I spotted one Aiptasia in the display tank, then shortly after another one. Bought some Aiptasia-X a few weeks later and killed them both.

Well, two months later (March) I spotted them again... a large one on the substrate, and 3 smaller ones on the rock. The large one and one of the smaller ones were almost exactly where the two ones I killed in January were.... humm.... I re-read Aiptasia-X's instructions, applied it on them again, and gone they were (the four of them). ...