aiptasia?

[skunkmere]

i got this little amemone growing out of my live rock its small and has brown tenticles. is it aiptasia? is there anything else it can be?

 

[medic29]

possibly, but need a pic to be sure.

 

[Pufferpunk]

If it is, I have been having good luck with Bob Fenner's suggestion of injecting them with lemon juice. Had to repeat a couple of times occasionally but they're definately going away.

 

[carpediem360]

I have had one and injected it with vinegar once and it died. but you have to get it good

 

[skunkmere]

its super small right now so i have to wait til it gets bigger, right?

 

[carpediem360]

no kill it went you can. I heard they spread like fire

 

[Pufferpunk]

They also sting/kill neighboring corals. Wiped out a fantastic colony of pumpkin zoas & really cool clove polyps.

 

[medic29]

I bought a few pepermint shrimp and they took care of all of the aptasia that I had.

 

[softbal4]

any suggestions for majanos? they are a problem and I tried kalk injection. worked for a little and then they came back.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I am killing off my tulip anemones with the lemon juice. Some of them have needed extra doses but they are dying.

 

[medic29]

I used boiling RO water and injected it in the mouth and stem...it melted away....kind of cool. I guess time will tell if it keeps it away.

 

[softbal4]

jeni,
doesn't the lemon juice affect the tank? I want to try it but am a bit afraid. lmk thanks
p.s. anemone still has not moved...are you still looking? thanks again

 

[mbierzyc]

I ordered 2 peppermint shrimp about a month ago, and I thought they disappeared. All of my aiptasia disappeared as well. Just today I was feeding some frozen food to my tank and I saw one of my peppermint shrimp grabbing some mysis shrimp.

Looks like they did the trick.

 

[softbal4]

tried the peppermint idea, added 3....not one ate a single thing. maybe they felt threatened by my flame hawk and never attempted...after 4 months...never saw them again. Expensive food for the hawk, I guess.
Also tried a butterfly, never had luck either.

My problem is more mojanos (small anemones, whatever they are called) though.

 

[reefman77]

I am also Fighting a massive amount of apstasia im my tank (dont by live rock from deep reef aquatics) I had afew when I got it but now theres a ton of them. stoped by reef plus to day and bought 3 peperment shrimp and a bottle of joes juice. the joes juice works well, the peppermint shrimp dont

 

[bigacre]

Get Joes Juice, wipes mine out stat... its hard to get the ones under the rock, Joes Juice works on gravity.

 

[1010]

with that real small one I would but a small rock on top of it it will climb on the small rock then take the rock out of the tank. I was never so lucky I had a breakout, bought two peppermint shrimp worked great.

 

[gillies]

Berghia

 

[Pufferpunk]

So far, the lemon juice doesn't harm anything. I'd take Bob Fenner's word for it.

 

[MrMexReefer]

ive tried the lemon juice method too... works like a charm, and doesnt change tank parameters enough to be detected by my test kits.