If a person can remove complete rocks from the tank, has anybody used a treatment that will eliminate all aiptasia from a rock? Is there a solution that will kill all aiptasia by submersion?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Aiptasia Control - rock at a time?
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I think liberal puttying of kalk paste may kill off all the surface w/o damaging the interior bacteria.
Can you point me to articles or threads on any of them? Thanks.
LL
Skeptic_07
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You could just let the rocks sit out and get dry, you could soak them in freshwater maybe with a little vinegar added, i saw a guy blow torch his rocks i'm sure that would kill aips.
I like the water/vinegar solution idea - that would kill the aiptasia? (I know it would kill helpful bacteria)
LL
Skeptic_07
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I think it would but I've never tried it. Some people actually inject aips with vinegar to kill them in the tank.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=803632
Would be a helpful thread but thats all about in-tank aip killing. Boiling water is an interesting idea too.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=803632
Would be a helpful thread but thats all about in-tank aip killing. Boiling water is an interesting idea too.
sweetrav18
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red sea apistasia X. u coat them and they implode. used it once and never came back
You are very lucky... the last time I treated my 180G, they were all gone...almost a full bottle of Aiptasia-X. A week later, they were back. Two weeks later, they were as large and numerous as before treatment.
That's why I started this thread - not to ask about spot treatment, but to ask for people with experience in treating entire pieces of rock in a solution that kills them once and for all...
LL
terrinstevereef
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Killed one in our Sump yesterday with lemon juice and a syringe, shot is up and it melted away.
That's why I started this thread - not to ask about spot treatment, but to ask for people with experience in treating entire pieces of rock in a solution that kills them once and for all...
LL
Fresh water dip will take care of xenia...
LL
elecbzerk
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Lightsluvr, I have seen you on MAAST before. I had aptasia pretty bad, but I ordered these and they eradicated all aptasia. Kind of pricey, and it took a little while but they ate it all. They will not start with the bigger ones, they will start on the smaller ones and work their way up. Worked for me, hope that helps.
Hey there...
I have Berghia and they made good progress in my 120G. However, they didn't make any headway in the 180G, because they were picked off by my wrasses... expensive fish food for wrasses...
I am moving the rock from the 180G into a new tank in a week or two, and want to dip the rock to kill all aiptasia once and for all before placing it in the new tank...
So far a vinegar and water solution has been suggested...
Other folks don't understand my question and keep suggesting the usual treatments, (boiling water, lemon juice, joe's Ap-X, kalk paste, etc.)
I've tried all the above. None work on a long-term basis. Thus I am going to remove any encrusted coral that I can, frag them and submerge the LR in something that will kill the aiptasia, permanently.
I realize it will also kill good stuff in the rock, but I have to do what I have to do...
LL
Skeptic_07
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Here is the thread where the guy blowtorched his rock to kill aips.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1417335
I wonder how effective pouring boiling water on the rock out of the tank would be? I bet you'd end up with hundreds of pink 'cooked' pods looking like mini lobsters ahha
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1417335
I wonder how effective pouring boiling water on the rock out of the tank would be? I bet you'd end up with hundreds of pink 'cooked' pods looking like mini lobsters ahha
I PM'd hyperfocal to find out if the aiptasia survived this onslaught...
hope he's still around to give an update.
Thanks!
LL
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Burn baby burn
Burn baby burn
Recdeived reply from hyperfocal and update on his eradication of aiptasia with a small blowtorch. His thread link is above.
Here's his update (read from bottom up):
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hyperfocal wrote on 06/24/2009 11:07 AM:
Sure, send me a link when you're done? I'd enjoy following your thread.
Burn baby burn
Recdeived reply from hyperfocal and update on his eradication of aiptasia with a small blowtorch. His thread link is above.
Here's his update (read from bottom up):
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hyperfocal wrote on 06/24/2009 11:07 AM:
Sure, send me a link when you're done? I'd enjoy following your thread.
i had TONS of aiptasia on some live rock i bought. about 50lbs in a 36g tank.
i got 3 peppermint shrimp, and a bottle of "aiptasia control" by blue vet RX.
That was a month ago, i basically shot all of them i could find once a day for 3 days. I havent seen any aiptasia since.
I think peppermint shrimp will only eat the tiny tiny aiptasia, and the big ones are easy to shoot.
i got 3 peppermint shrimp, and a bottle of "aiptasia control" by blue vet RX.
That was a month ago, i basically shot all of them i could find once a day for 3 days. I havent seen any aiptasia since.
I think peppermint shrimp will only eat the tiny tiny aiptasia, and the big ones are easy to shoot.
MMM33732
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I had a ton of the also. I added 4 peppermint shrimp and a few days later the aiptasia started to slowly disappear. After about a month every single one was gone and they have not since returned even though the peppermints are all gone now. Its been a few months now still aiptasia free. They ate the large and the small ones.
conorwynne
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+1 on the aiptasia control and +1 on peps for the SMALL ones. They never touched the large ones in my tank.
When the last one died, my peps became Anenome fodder.
When the last one died, my peps became Anenome fodder.
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