Aiptasia

[sturnmeyer]

Okay, so who has the sure fire way or getting rid of it? I have some in my frag tank and want to take care of them before they get out of hand.

 

Thanks

[dzekunoi]

Joe's juice

[stevil]

I inject vinegar into mine. I think having a needle to inject them with whatever is key. Not to say that I've completely eliminated mine though, but they have not ever gotten out of control.

 

There also is a nudibranch that will eat them. The downside is the nudibranches die once there is no aptasia to eat.

[Charlie97L]

peppermint shrimp from F&F!! 3 days, and my tank went from 40+ to none with 2 shrimp. woo! i even had some HUGE ones.

[Carl]

I've used a rather unconventional way to rid myself of 2 aiptasia I recently acquired on some live rock I purchased. Since I was able to take the rock out of the tank, as it wasn't part of the aquascaping yet, and I "boiled them off".

 

Each of aiptasia was on the "end" of a rock, not the middle. I boiled tap water in a coffee cup in a microwave, then used a turkey baster to pour water directly on the aiptasia on the rock.

 

This obviously killed an area about 3 inches by 3 inches on the LR, but it worked.

 

I'm sure there are better ways to do this...

 

-Carl

[chefthomasr]

I have used Joes Juice twice, and haven't seen any since. If you catch it early, it works great. You can also make a kalkwasser paste, put it in a dropper bottle, and voila! When you inject something into the anemone, it tears the tissue dispersing thousands of microscopic pieces into the system. These in turn attach to whatever they can and reproduce. I have had great success with adding a copper band butterfly fish thanks to a friendly tip from martin!(Thanks, man )

 

I am sure everyone and their mother have ways to deal with these things. They are a fact of life in this hobby. Bob Fenner has some good things to say on this subject. Good luck!

 

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/...ia/aiptasia.htm

 

Thomas

 

p.s. I think I remember reading somewhere that someone decided to keep an aptasia tank.

Anyone else, or am I imagining things?

 

Thomas

[jamesbuf]

I had a bunch of them on about 70lbs of liverock I bought off a fellow member. I bought 2 peppermint shrimps and they were all gone within a week. Worked for me.

[Sharkb8]

Ya - peppermints are the way. Any other "additive" you put in the tank I would avoid. Messes with the chemistry. That's just my own two cents and paranoia. . .

[JC Pollman]

If you want a really sure fire way to get rid of them - get a raccoon butterfly. Mind, you won't have any corals left, but I guarentee you will not have any aiptasia 24 hours after you put it in :wink:

[Guest fishwish]

Ya - peppermints are the way. Any other "additive" you put in the tank I would avoid. Messes with the chemistry. That's just my own two cents and paranoia. . .

 

can you put the peppermint with a flame angel and a cleaner shrimp in a 90g?

[jason the filter freak]

The shrip sound like a good deal :wink:

[Charlie97L]

can you put the peppermint with a flame angel and a cleaner shrimp in a 90g?

 

shouldn't be a problem. flame angels tend to only go after coral and clams. i'd get 2 or 3 for a 90.