Aiptaisia

[LAMBrose1994]

Hello everyone,

I have a couple of really small aiptaisa in my tank, and my problem is my LFS don't have any peppermint shrimps for 2 weeks

Will the aiptaisa grow much in 2 weeks? I'm freaking out thinking it'll be too big for a peppermint Shrimp to eat when I do buy one

What should I do?

Thank You

 

[tanksfishtank]

I cant remember exactly which ones, but I know that there are certain wrasses that eat them as well.

 

[Johnseye]

Hello everyone,

I have a couple of really small aiptaisa in my tank, and my problem is my LFS don't have any peppermint shrimps for 2 weeks

Will the aiptaisa grow much in 2 weeks? I'm freaking out thinking it'll be too big for a peppermint Shrimp to eat when I do buy one

What should I do?

Thank You

I've had peppermint shrimp devour aiptasia several weeks old. If the shrimp doesn't eat it then use some AiptasiaRX on it.

 

[JonV88]

Copper banded butterfly or a couple of peppermint shrimp

 

[LAMBrose1994]

Brilliant, Excellent Advice Everyone.

Thank You

 

[disc1]

I cant remember exactly which ones, but I know that there are certain wrasses that eat them as well.

I think you're thinking of vermetid snails and not aptasia.

I can't say enough for aptasia-X. That stuff really worked, at least for me. I've been able to use a peppermint to keep them at bay, but I've never had one go and take out any that were large enough for me to notice.

 

[Mark9]

After Aiptasia getting out of control, I have waged war in the last week.
Used Aiptasia-x, have had to hit the larger ones twice to be effective.
Some were irritating corals. For instant relief, I used crazy glue gel to fill in their hole.
Works like a charm, unless they have an escape route.

 

[Ztrain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIBS15iXSc

Funny video but the other thing I read somplace is if you have an elegance coral their sting kills aptasia.

 

[Maivortex]

If its just a couple kill them by injecting some baking soda paste in to them...

 

[kurt_n]

Don't rely on peppermint shrimp - they're hit and miss. Get any of the bottled aiptasia solutions and use them. Or mix up a thick paste of saltwater and kalk and drop in on the bugger. (Turn pumps off and make sure water is as calm as possible - the paste *will* kill anything it contacts for any amount of time.) I wouldn't wait, and let it get bigger, just to have a peppermint ignore it.

 

[super stooge]

Id suggest being aggressive and treating the problem now before it has a chance to grow and multiply. If there are only a few aiptaisia around, it should be fairly simple to hunt them down manually using aiptaisiaX or another similar concoction. I had a few of the ugly blighters make their way into my tank on a coral rock a few weeks ago. AiptaisiaX came, it saw, and it melted them into oblivion.

I'm personally not a fan of adding livestock purely to deal with a problem you can address yourself. I'd fall back on peppermint shrimp (which can be hit or miss) only if the aiptaisia have taken hold to the point where you can't track them all down and they continue to reproduce despite manual removal. I'd also strongly suggest against a copper banded butterfly if you are new. They are a tricky fish

 

[3dees]

boiling lemon juice worked for me.

 

[Fallling]

+1 to using something like joe's juice, kalk paste, Aiptasia-X, etc.

 

[cloak]

Hello everyone,

I have a couple of really small aiptaisa in my tank, and my problem is my LFS don't have any peppermint shrimps for 2 weeks

Will the aiptaisa grow much in 2 weeks? I'm freaking out thinking it'll be too big for a peppermint Shrimp to eat when I do buy one

What should I do?

Thank You

If you can remove the rocks they're on fairly easy, you might want to try and burn them off with a cigarette lighter.

 

[fsttyms1]

Im fairly new to the hobby with a 40g and upon trying to fish out a Anthias that passed i found a fairly large patch of it on a rock that i hadnt noticed due to its location. I dropped in a few peppermint shrimp and within a few days the patch was gone and has remained that way for a few months now. They worked for me plus the kids like watching them moving about.

 

[spikey114]

I found an aiptasia last week and didnt have any aiptasia X or anything. I did have a bottle of green lime juice you can get for 2 bucks at the supermarket. Luckily all my live rock is small and i was able to pick up the whole thing out of the tank and squirt the aiptsasia directly. Within a minute i could see the tenticles turned white color. I left it there for maybe 5 minutes and then used a stove lighters to burn it for good measure. You just need to make sure to wash off the charred that remains with a turkey baster over the sink or something. :beer: