Anyone try joes juice?

[jdoenumber2]

I see a couple of aptasia. I thought they were gone. What LFS has it in Rochester?

 

[sedorusc]

CF has it. works but they always seem to come back.

 

[oceanparadise1]

I have some you can try if you want to come grab it

 

[Brent Thomann]

joes juice works really good.

 

[chrisqueenz]

Works, but always comes back for me.

 

[jjwarfly]

Always used ro water and calcium.

 

[Kent E]

Joe's juice is kalk. kalk is much, much cheaper. Mr.s Wages pickling lime.

 

[oceanparadise1]

LOL or just stop by my place, im close i live in er,and you can just have some joes juice.

 

[fatrip]

IDK, kalk works only some times. I would try a muric acid, or lemon juice.

 

[Paradiddle7]

Don't use an acid, it will mess up your tank's PH.

Joes Juice works OK, but it's not perfect. I have a couple bottles here at the house that I'll probably never use and its quite expensive and a nuissance to use on large outbreaks.

The best method by far, is to use a creme brulee torch, or other small torch. You can find them at any cooking store for about $15.

Just pull your rock out and nuke them with the torch. Then rinse that area over a sink using RODI water to clean up all the dead tissue off the rock. Put the rock back in your tank and you are 100% certain it is dead and won't come back.

Just don't burn your house down doing this, like I almost did. I set the torch on some plastic and the heat actually ignited the plastic and started a small fire.

 

[Conesus_Kid]

X2 on the torch method.

I've used a Bernz-o-matic propane torch on an aiptasia with success. Just be aware that the surrounding area of the rock will heat up so remove any corals before touching it off.

DAMHIKT.

 

[jdoenumber2]

Stuff works great. Thank you Phil! Works great on Xenia too.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

re: Joe's Juice

re: Joe's Juice

Patent number: US2005100576
Publication date: 2005-05-12
Inventor: GATTO JOSEPH C JR (US)
Applicant:
Classification:
- international: A01N59/06; A01N59/06; (IPC1-7): A01N25/00
- european: A01N59/06
Application number: US20040963701 20041013
Priority number(s): US20040963701 20041013; US20030623250 20030718

View INPADOC patent family



Abstract of US2005100576

A method of killing Aiptasia and Majano anemones in aquariums comprises filling a dispenser with an anemone killing mixture, comprising purified water, and effective amounts of calcium hydroxide and non-iodized salt, placing a tip of the filled dispenser near a mouth of an anemone and dispensing a small amount of the mixture such that it is consumed by the anemone. An anemone killing mixture comprises effective amounts of calcium hydroxide and non-iodized salt dissolved into and mixed in boiling purified water.


Edit: joesjuice.com is registered to:
Registrant:
Joseph C. Gatto Jr.
Joseph Gatto, Jr.
Stamford, CT 06906-1110

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BTW: calcium hydroxide = pickling lime = kalkwasser

 

[fatrip]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12954125#post12954125 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paradiddle7
Don't use an acid, it will mess up your tank's PH.

unless you are going to sit in your tank for hours doing this which im guess you would get tired after about 10 mins, you wont mess ph up. the ph in your tank will swing more going from day to night and back than puting that much muric acid in your tank.

 

[jansenwrasse]

RDIT*** not a safe recipe sorry

 

[oceanparadise1]

Np jason! Glad to help out a fellow reefer!

 

[Dave VG]

I use lemon juice. No PH problems here. You inject it into it not squirt it on it lol.

 

[SkiFletch]

I've tried Injecting Muriatic acid straight into the little bastages with a hypodermic needle... Never worked for me . Even tried Sulfuric acid, same, little punks just came back a week later. Dunno where I can get hydroflouric acid though.

Kalkwasser paste, aka joes juice, aka sodium hydroxide works about 40% of the time for me.

 

[fatrip]

interesting, both muriatic and citric acids have worked for me. i injected them with a small needle at the base under the head, and they seem to not come back. but when i used kalk that only worked on about 3 out of 7 to 10 of them.

 

[Newreef2]

Aptasia

Aptasia

I used kalkwasser and made it into almost a toothpaste consistency and put it all over the aptasia and not one has returned after a month. I did use joes juice before that and they all came back. I think the effectiveness is related to how thick the kalk paste is vs the joes juice is a liquid.
Just my experience,
Barbara