aptesia????????????

[tspors]

It works and is safe. Use as directed, sooner you deal with them sooner they are gone. The article I posted is from something I found, I did not write it. After doing some research I found it to be safe and gave it a try. Amazing results, the ampunt of Sodium Hydroxide you are introducing to the water is so small there are no issues, a small amount is needed to kill them. Balling water they come back. I tried the lemon juice, they return. Kalk you have to be careful fish will atempt to eat it.

 

[mindytoy]

where do i find that chemical?? theres only 3 small ones and i mean small largest maybe the size of a dime.

 

[saltee dood]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13191646#post13191646 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tspors

Use a saturated solution of Sodium Hydroxide (Drain Away, Draino, whatever you like to call it) and water. Using a syringe, squirt about 0.5 mL into the mouth of each aiptasia. This will kill even the stubborn foot tissue.

 

[mindytoy]

?

 

[kevnvan]

He was letting you know where to find said chemical, being Drain-O, available at most grocery stores and retail outlets.

 

[mindytoy]

wow i still cant believe that isnt harmfull to the reef?

 

[Brewman12er]

dont waste your time with boiling water or ice water.. i did that for many treatments and showed no results.. i was far better off using lemon juice.


use lemon juice or joe juice or aptaisa-x

boiling water along with ice water and peppermint shrimp are a total waste of time and money..
save yourself the headake get joe juice or lemon juice

 

[mindytoy]

well i found it for cheap i guess ill try it out. its one rock with like 50 feather dusters... should i put it in a tupperware and treat it there to prevent any contamination?

 

[mindytoy]

also i have no fish only cup crew and some corals

 

[msduncan]

My big problem is that I had a HUGE outbreak. I treated all of them and got rid of all of them through several bottles of joes juice over several weeks.

Now itsy bitsy ones always grow back within a couple weeks so I have to treat again. I can never seem to get rid of all of them. They are a complete nuisance.

 

[Pseudo12]

I had an outbreak a few years ago and tried many things. The way i got rid of them was a Copperband butterfly fish. This little fish plowed through the aptesia in under a week. Only the larger ones seemed to stick around. Sad part is that after it was through with the aptesia it died a few weeks later. I dont know if it was related to that but I never could get it to eat anything else.

 

[mindytoy]

tried the lemon and it seems they died....i just stabbed them and pressed a bit on the syringe white milky substance came out

 

[micoral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13191646#post13191646 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tspors

Kalk will do the same thing to your hand as sodium hydroxide, at a much much slower rate.

I agree, I got a chemical burn from CaOH on my wrist while working for an environmental cleaning company. Burned for weeks! but I still dose my aips with it..

 

[micoral]

Kliens butterflies, chaetadon klienii I believe?, are very good aiptasia eaters and are much more likely to adapt to captive foods than copperbanded BF, but they both can eat zoos and other polyps on occasion, anyone want to get rid of yellow polyps? Kliens BF don't look as nice as the Copperband when they are young, but when they are older they get nicer looking IMO (not nicer than the copperband, but nicer than the juv colors).