Aiptasia Control Product Local?

[JRPhd]

All of a sudden I've had aiptasia popping up. Know of anyone selling remedies locally? Also, what's recommended for little guys ('bout the size of an eraser head or a little larger). Ideally, I'd like to not disturb the rock by taking it out. Boreman speaks of a special nudibranch and I've heard of the peppermint shrimp and butterflies. Other options? Oh, I have used boiling water, but here are too many of these guys around now.

Oh, While I'm at it, a friend said there's a new shopp near the east side?

Thanks,
Jon

 

[Hens4Fish]

I have had 100% success with the peppermint shrimp.

 

[jeffgp]

i used the shrimp ... it works great ... but i also had to bake all my rocks because it was getting to out of hand

 

[nait002]

What goes into baking the rocks Jeff?

 

[Water Box]

A buddy of mine uses Joes Juice. Watched him apply it to an aiptaisa and that thing was never seen again.

I also had good luck with pep shrimp in a nano I had set up a few years back.

 

[rica5tully]

I use Joes Juice. It's kind of expensive ($8?) but it lasts a long time. They shrivel right up.

 

[TropTrea]

Joes juice is great if you just have a hand full around. But the problem is that Joes Juice only kills the ones that you see and treat.

Now peppermint shrimp have given me good results in the past. I got a shippment of live rock that after 2 weeks was loaded with Aipastia and put 3 shrimp in with it (30 gallon curring tank) after about 2 weeks I could not find a single Aipastia.

I'm starting to see some Aipastia again only in my 120 gallon they seem top pop up between my zoo colonies. I added 6 Shrimp last week found 1 dead the next day, and have not seen any of the others or any improvement since.

Butterflies also suposedly do wonder on Aipastia however when the Aipastia are gone there is no guarantee they will not start nipping on polyps. I thing the secret with buitterflies is to have a large enough system so there nipping will not be as damaging as the recovery ability of your corals.

Other things I heard about are the dwarf angels. But again if you have a large tank with a lot of coral they may work out better than in a small tank if they do start nipping.

Dennis

 

[JRPhd]

Thanks all. I think I'll try a shrimp and Joe's Juice cocktail (pun intended). Can JJ be procured locally? $8 beats the hassle of "cooking the rocks."
Thanks,
Jon

 

[sero]

Kalkwasser is just as effective as Joes Juice.

 

[DragonFish]

How do you mix the kalk, and how is it applied?

 

[sero]

Put enough kalk in some ro/di water to make it look like milk when you shake it up(it will precipitate out of solution eventually). Use a 5ml syringe with the tip on it (comes with many testing kits, like seachem) looks a lot like a small pen/pencil. Fill a few cc's of the kalk/water into the syringe and feed it to the aiptaisa. Basically you're tricking it, making it thinks it's food. Be gentile and finesse the kalk near it's mouth without scaring it into its crevasse, you don't need very much either.... Well you can imagine what a pH of 14 does to most living organisms...

This and a couple peppermint shrimp will make you a happy camper

HTH