fish clown
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Great news, I saw one of my pepperment shrimp attacking a desent sized ataisia!!! Hopfully they will eat the other 70 or so. Is five peperments enough for the amount of astaisia I have???
Aiptasia Attack!!!!!!
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reef4life07
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Ever thought about baking/cooking/curing your rocks? I had a bad outbreak of red bubble algae, I baked my rocks for about close to 4 weeks. It's been a year now, and haven't seen any since...It's just a thought.
heranatomy
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+6868678 on the aiptasia x!!! It worked great for me!
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There is no substitute.
+2. These are great fish to have in your reef. They don't hurt other corals IME, unlike what another poster said. They also eat mojanos.
fish clown
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I think I may get 5 more peperment to get rid of this apstisia. I am realy getting sick of it. I purchased my first hard corals at the indmas frag swap and I put them in the tank. One week later and aptaisia had grown there and stung them and now there on a small birdsnest there is a dead spot that has turned white. Premium had great prices on peperment to; i think its $5 per shrimp if you get five opposed to The Reef were its $9.
lmsmith
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I use straight vinegar, boiled in the microwave and inject it into the aipstasia's body, making sure I peirce the flesh. I usually inject about 10ml into each aipstasia. It's time intensive to do each one, but it does get rid of them on the first shot. Sometimes new ones come up and I just inject them when I see them. I think it's safer and cheaper than aipstasia X or any of the others.
fish clown
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I just tried that but couldnt find a large syringe or the regular vinager so I used apple cider vinager. I think the one I used was 2ml. I made sure the vinager was boiling blasted them and Ill tell you the results tomarrow.
fish clown
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The vinager worked great on more than half and ill go for round two later today.
fish clown
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Ok I know it's been awhile but I did get peppermint shrimp and they cleaned up all the aptasia in less than two weeks!!! My tank has remained aptasia free since then. I still had a lot of aptasia in my refugium on rock touble and I heared calkwasser mixed with water works well so last night my refugium was half covered in aptasia. Once I blasted the first one it look like it was disintegrating its testicals. I did it to all of them I could see and now they are all dark drown and look dead and some are falling off the rock. I did a few more I missed las night just now and it's working great.
PlaneReefer
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Lol, autocorrect fail.
fish clown
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5 peppermints were plenty and did a great job, it would certainly be easier than pouring water on them. If you do that though and you add a frag or piece of rock be very careful there are not any aptasia on them or you would have to do that all over or add peppermints anyway. The kalkwasser killed about all the aptasia in my fuge.
mnchartier
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Berghia nudibranchs (not really a nudibranch) - is a natural predator and feed exclusively on aiptasia, it will not turn on any other organism that is in your tank unlike the possibilities with the filefish and shrimp. They can be breed out in mason jars.
Kawi9_cf
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I had a huge outbreak like yours and I used aiptaisia x everyday for about a week to get all that I could see then I got several peppermint shrimp who slowly eradicated the rest. A local reefer who is pretty experienced told me that he has the most success with pepermint shrimp when he gets 3 for every 10 gallons of water. I have been completely aiptasia free for 3 months now.
ccreviston74
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I've also had good luck with peppermint shrimp, but some just won't tough them. They seem to only eat the smaller ones, so beating them back with AiptasiaX is a good first step.
Make sure they don't sell you camel shrimp.
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PiratesReef
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I have a friend that has a file fish in his tank that is suppose to eat aiptaisia and it does not seam to like them maybe he feeds his file fish to good
PiratesReef
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peppermint shrimp works good for me
I had a Matted that mowed down every one, and bothered nothing else. My brother in law got one, and it seeked out every mini brittle after eliminating the Aips. Then it went zoa crazy. His Filefish now resides in the big boy tank.
It's hit or miss, just like my Dwarf Angel experiment.
That went wrong.
It's hit or miss, just like my Dwarf Angel experiment.
That went wrong.
