Aiptasia treatment testimonial

[Mako Shark II]

Ever have Aiptasia? Who hasn’t?? Welcome to Reefkeeping!

“Glass anemone” problems are an on-gong maintenance item, and left unattended, they’ll quickly overrun your tank. They compete with and can overtake your favorite sessile invertebrates.

To combat the feisty little buggers, you’ve probably used Blue Vet Aiptasia control, Kalk-wasser paste or Joe’s Juice, which just sounds wrong!

Previously, I’ve used the Blue Vet Aiptasia Control from Blue Life, which worked just fine, until the cheap syringe clogged with solid particles from the Blue Life brand’s bottle of solution, which had dried out. (I even cut the dried product with a couple drops of RO, which worked fine, but there were still lumps, no matter how hard I tried to shake the bottle.)

I would have even re-purchased the Blue Vet product (because it does work!) but it wasn’t available, so I was forced to buy a competitor’s product off-the-shelf from the LFS.

Here then is a new testimonial for a decent product, which I just put through the paces for my first time.

For the last hour, I have used Red Sea’s AIPTASIA-X Eliminator Kit, which included a better quality syringe, with one straight & one off-set needle (2 total) for targeting the mouth of Aiptasia, affixed to live rock.

Additionally, I feel the product was superior because:
- the product didn’t clog while dispensing,
- the syringe has high-quality stainless steel needles,
- and the 60ml bottle has three-times the volume of the Blue Life / Blue Vet brand.

All in all, I was more impressed with the Red Sea brand performance, 3x the product and the price-point was only 30% higher then the Blue Vet.

So there!! Stick THAT in your Aiptasia!!!

 

[ducklabdad]

Sounds like something worth trying Marty.

I have tried several things to kill the "very few" that I have had but the only thing that I have used that they did not come back was plain old
"Super Glue" I stick the open end into ther mouth and Squeeze and push them into themselves. Easy and at 4 tubes for $1.00 at the Dollar tree(do not need the gel for this one).

Works great.

 

[Blindside]

will still get all chunky!!! I just cut with ro as well. Good luck I have tried everything and a few pepermints and aptasia x seems to have made them go away. Should include an anti clog agent does stink to only use the stuff once or twice.

 

[tgriffin]

Great post Marty. I noticed last week that I have about 5 or 6 aiptasia's going in my 60 gal tank. I went out and bought three peppermint shrimp both as a combat to the aiptasia's and as a dummy livestock being the first thing I added to my tank other than the few snails and sea cucumbers that came with the tank. I was wondering if I should increase the number of shrimp or go ahead and use this product to try to kill them right away. I am hoping that they (peppermint shrimp) will prevent any outbreak once all aiptasia's are killed.

 

[gflat65]

I've got a friend that used Aiptasia X (he does maint). His comments are that it seems to reduce numbers, but it definitely doesn't get rid of them. Peppermints and Berghia work for me most of the time. The thing with Peppermints is that you can't feed anything to the tank, or they will choose the food over the Aips. When i moved, I lost most of what I had, so i just threw some Pepps into my 120 and left them (probably 25 or so). no feeding, and within a month, there wasn't a single Aip, majano, or tulip left in the tank (and remains that way several years later). I just bought a 75 for the rock, and it is covered in Aips. I dropped 50 pepps in there a little over two weeks ago and can see that at least 1/3 of the visible Aips are gone. I'll leave them in there for a couple of months to get the stragglers, though. There is nothing else in the tank but a couple of toadstools and snails, so no reason to feed.

Good luck with it. Keep us posted on how it does long term.

 

[yankeereefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14525757#post14525757 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gflat65
within a month, there wasn't a single Aip, majano, or tulip left in the tank (and remains that way several years later).

peps eat majanos?

 

[mim37204]

A piece of rock a buddy gave me(he didn't like it, because of it's odd shape) was COVERED in some magnificent life. It had feathers, tube worms, tons of cope/amphipods and at least 3 colors of coraline. And quite a few forams. Since my rock is nearly bare, other than some algae, this rock was perfect seed stock. Unfortnately it also had hair algae, bubble algae, and aiptasia along with it. On the way home, I stopped to pick up an emerald crab, and some Mrs. Wages. Used my fingernail to gently pull off most of the bubble and an x-acto to flake off a piece of the LR under the aiptasia. Once it was in the tank I covered the remaining few stragglers with a dollop of lime paste via syringe. That was nearly two weeks ago, and since then bubble is gone, hair algae is gone, and bad nems are nowhere to be seen.

Sad thing is, I kinda liked them. Wanted to put them in a jar for my mother... With her black thumb of death, I figured it might be the only thing she could keep alive. *thinks back to the time she killed her beta*

 

[gflat65]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14526167#post14526167 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by yankeereefer
peps eat majanos?

They ate everything I had in the tank. I had several rock anemones that they ate after finishing off the other anemones. I came home one day to four of them on my favorite rock anemone, ripping it to shreds.