Aptasia on a frag

[ninjamini]

I got a small frag of zoos that I glued to a rock. I had a bare spot right in the center of the zoos and over the weekend it enlarged. Upon exam there are 3 very small aptasia my treatment before when I had them in a young tank was to nuke them with a kalkeasswr paste. Now that would be bad.

Should I remove the frag?
Get a peppermint?
Something else?

 

[qadaemon]

I use red sea aptasia-x for small breakouts and during qt for a new frag; amazon even has it on prime. It works really well if you can get to the oral disk. In a lot of cases I have been able to put the frag in isolation in a bowl for a few minutes to make it easier to reach. Depends on how easily it retracts though. I've used it in the display tank a couple times, and never had problems, but I prefer to medicate elsewhere if possible.

 

[Lacy]

If you can remove the frag easily I would scrape off as much as possible. Then put it under running tap water and see if you can scrape off even more. You can leave it in a bowl of the water for 5 or so minutes. I would think this would kill it. If you feel uncomfortable with the tap water you can use ro water. I have never tried to kill aptasia this way, but I would think it would work. I could be wrong though. I have left zoas in tap water for up to 30 minutes experimenting with trying to kill zoa spiders. It didn't work on the adult spiders.

 

[rovster]

You could try and scrape, and then superglue over the area. Should be minimal damage if any to the zoas.

 

[Daimyo68]

If they are dead center of the zoa's, then rest assured, the zoa's matting is not touching the aiptasia.

I would cut the zoas off the plug, and toss it. Dip them, and then you can lightly brush them with a soft bristle tooth brush under running water. Rinse in a cup of SW, and glue/attach them to another plug. Put them in a low flow spot so that they can get a foothold again.

Putting a peppermint shrimp or two in the tank won't hurt either and will help with control if they did spread at all.

 

[milsaltnewbie07]

Inject it with lime juice. Does wonders

 

[roblack]

Clip that part of the frag plug or rock off with some frag shears. In fact, if you can, take the coral off the frag plug and reattach to a new (aiptasia free) frag plug.

 

[JohannesFTL]

if you want to try the aptaisa-x without having to buy a whole bottle, let me know. I have a almost full bottle with the syringe that you can try out... I'm off of 95 and commercial

 

[Biggar]

Add peppermint and do nothing.