apitasa

Yup! Joe's Juice is the best method I have found. I had about 50 of them at one time and now, they're completely gone. It kills them instantly and they don't come back.
 
Natural methods include berghia nudibranches, copperband butterfly fish, and peppermint shrimp. It is usually hit and miss though with these selections. For me, peppermint shrimp has never worked. I have a copperband butterfly fish and it pounds the crap out of every aiptasia it finds in my reef. I have not tried the berghia nudibranches because they are difficult to find, but I have heard good success stories from people that use them. I've used Joe's Juice, kalk, and lemon juice, and the aiptasia came back within a week or two in even larger numbers. And trust me, I put a ton of the Joe's Juice and kalk on my aiptasia and it did not work. JMO, though.
I hope you get ur problem solved, because aiptasia really sucks!
Good Luck! :)
 
I tried Joe's Juice...it did not work for me. Perhaps if you have one or two (yea right...) you can provide a concentrated effort with injecting JJ. I had amazing results with Peppermint Shrimp! I had a 65 gal display with hundreds of aptasia. I introduced 8 Peppermint Shrimp and in a matter of a week I could not see any of the pests except for a few large (1-2 inch or so) that I had to manually extract. The shrimp have behaved themselves nicely over the years and the other tank inhabitants enjoy the frequent release of eggs from the shrimp.

Good luck!
 
filefish
sea grass or brisstletail (Acreichthys Tomentousus) was suggested in this months aquarium fish international as a good reef safe aiptasia eating fish, staying at a managle size (3-5") peacefull and easy taking to aquarium foods its recomended over the copperbanded butterfly.
i've never housed one, never had aptasia (knock on wood) but it would be something fun to try, and let us know how it works :)
 
Peppermints will work, but you have to do a massive assault with them... one, two, or three wont do it. 5 or more seems to though... I think the extra numbers must put them into a more competitive mood.
 
tried joe juice for 6 months and they still returned. copperband did the trick-best money i ever spent. useful and looks cool too!
 
ya i just baked my rocks today at 500 for 20 min .. then a good hot bath and then cold to take the heat out of it ....
 
Funny how everyone has a different outcome. For me Joe's juice works initially but they come back multiplied by 10. Peppermint shrimp have not failed me. I've always had a couple in the tank. Last year I got a hawkfish that ate the peps and aptasia came back. After I fished the hawkfish out I got a few more peppermints and aptasia has not returned.

Albert
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10202001#post10202001 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by humbugy
filefish
sea grass or brisstletail (Acreichthys Tomentousus) was suggested in this months aquarium fish international as a good reef safe aiptasia eating fish, staying at a managle size (3-5") peacefull and easy taking to aquarium foods its recomended over the copperbanded butterfly.
i've never housed one, never had aptasia (knock on wood) but it would be something fun to try, and let us know how it works :)
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That's the first time I've heard of filefish recommended in this manner. did you get the publication on a newstand? I'm really curious since I have a vague recollection that Files weren't reef-safe.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10231664#post10231664 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coralnut99
That's the first time I've heard of filefish recommended in this manner. did you get the publication on a newstand? I'm really curious since I have a vague recollection that Files weren't reef-safe.
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http://www.tfhmagazine.com/

should be able to get it in most book stores, larger news stands.
the article describes this species of filefish as reef safe, but most of them are not.

EDIT - im sorry, i had the wrong magazine in mind, it was actually in .aquarium fish internatinal
http://www.fishchannel.com - i dont think this magazine has there own webpage.
 
my folks 125 is infested and i tried almost everything except the nudis.kalking made them spread even faster.they got a cbb but nothing yet,we had to divide the tak cause the yellow and purple tangs have tried to kill him.i put one in my 90 and is doing great,no aptasia.
 
Had a huge Aptasia problem a couple years back (came in a new piece of rock)...in the span on one week, I had clusters of them everywhere...3 peppermint shrimps later and the problem was gone in in under 2 weeks.
They worked wonderfully.
 
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