aiptasia going crazy!!

[Flybynight]

I have tryed berghia and they dont work.. I have tryed peppermint shrimp, and still the aiptasia keeps going crazy. What should I do to kill all these buggers? It is driving me crazy! What is the chances that a copper banded butterfly will do the trick? I have a 220 reef tank atm.

 

[sps1-2-b]

Either inject with Joe's Juice or Aiptasia-X by Red Sea. Peppermints worked for me. How many peps did you put in? I initially added 2 for my 140 gal and nothing. It wasn't until I added 6 more that the peps cleared the aiptasia. As for the copperband, it's a hit or miss thing considering you could get one to survive in your tank.

 

[Flybynight]

I added 4 at first and then about 3 months later I added 12 berghia. Then I found out that Peppermint shirmp eat the Berghia!! So that was a wast of $150 haha. Live and learn


I just blasted about 50 aiptasia about 20 mins ago with lemon juice. It working on about 60% of them.

I think I will go and buy like 20 peppermint shrimp and see if that works. What kind of bio load would that have on my tank?

 

[ethank77]

Have been injecting .5cc of white vinigar waorks great for me

 

[Flybynight]

injecting on/in the aiptasia or just in the water?



I also have Anemonia Majanos I want to kill!!

 

[Flybynight]

should i blast them with the pumps off?

 

[Tangweed]

Get this it works.

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/240610/product.web

 

[Candy803]

I have been using lemon juice and it is working great!

You have to sneak up on them and inject them before they shrink. They may need more than one dose depending on how well you inject them.

I leave my pumps on.

Good luck.

 

[Flybynight]

I guess I am going to employ my wife. I don't think she is going to like this to much!! haha

 

[dpetenzi]

You could also try boilling watter and injecting the hot watter on the aiptasia with a turky baster. It would be time consuming and you could only do the ones that are not too close too any corals ect. you don't want to kill. Maby you would be able to kill enough of them off to allow the peperment shrimp to do there job!
I have also seen with my tank the shrimp will eat fish foods before they get hungery enough to eat the aiptasia. you might try to feed alittle less food and see if that helps!
good luck!!!!

 

[Brewman12er]

Boiling hot water doesnt work worth a crap. Ice cold water doesnt work worth a crap. i have tried injectin it into there cavities, over there mouths. it simply doesnt work. i have done it over and over. Kalwasser mix works a lil bit but not much of a result. Shrimp do not work worth two craps. goin to try lemon juice. then it will be off to order some aptasia-x

 

[Flybynight]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13194542#post13194542 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brewman12er
Boiling hot water doesnt work worth a crap. Ice cold water doesnt work worth a crap. i have tried injectin it into there cavities, over there mouths. it simply doesnt work. i have done it over and over. Kalwasser mix works a lil bit but not much of a result. Shrimp do not work worth two craps. goin to try lemon juice. then it will be off to order some aptasia-x

HAHA, sounds like you have Robo aiptasia!!

 

[sps1-2-b]

I've heard great things about aiptasia-x. I used joe's juice, but it comes back in a few weeks. Someone told me that eventually they die if you repeatedly inject them with either a-x or jj.

 

[ethank77]

By inject I mean I am sticking a hypoderic needle into the creature and shooting up with vinigar they go and never return. usualy do right befor a water change, have had no problems so far

 

[newbie-to-reef]

I love aptasia x. It works great as long as you see all of the aptasia. Yesterday I saw something shooting something into the water and when I looked again it was an aptasia that was on the back of some rock. So, here we go again, but if I had looked close enough it would work great.

 

[kzickovich]

I have a copperband in my tank it's been in there over a year. When I first put him in I had hundreds of apatasia. Within a couple of weeks they are all gone except in my overflow box and fuge. My cb now eats flake and mysis.

 

[Flybynight]

NICE you are a lucky one!!

 

[Flybynight]

Is a Copper banded butterfly reef safe? i have heard they are but SWF is saying they are not?

 

[Lenny718]

Try injecting purple up , works great for me and it will not harm anything in your tank.

 

[tmz]

The Copperbanded may nip corals and may or may not eat aiptasia. Ships poorly and it's hard to get one acclimated and healthy.
Pepermint shrimp work well in my experience.

Persistent treatment plus pepermints seems to b the best combination for a reef tank. Instead of paying large prices for small amounts of injectables,you can make your own. Take some Kalkwasser mix and add a little water. Use as much as you can while still keeping the fluid thin enough to be drawn up a syringe.
Dribble it over the mouth and then try to literaly bury the aiptasia with the kalk. I have had poor luck luck with injectable remedies and don't know how you can stick a needle in them when they quickly withdraw. With the kalk mix you can add a piece of airline tube to the end of the syringe to allow you to reach more of them. The kalk seems to work on mahjonos as well. Be carefully to add only a syringe full or two to your tank at one time. Kalk has a very high ph.It's easier to do this with the powerheads off. Blow any that drifts onto a coral off with a turkey baster. Just keep comingat them over the course of months with the kalk and with peppermints and you'll win sooner or later.