Before I remove

[Duke4life]

Think I've found my 1st bad hitchhiker but would like input before I remove. I think it's aiptasia, just not sure as I've never dealt with it before. Current position is at a base on a rock in a shadowy area, used a flashlight to take the pic.

 

[Sk8r]

Can't make out a thing in the pic. but if it's brownish, got tentacles that expand larger than its base and vanishes when you come near it, yep, aiptasia.

 

[scooter31707]

ya looks like aiptasia to me.

 

[ericarenee]

+3 its surly looks like it to me... Time to file a eviction notice. But do not give it the required 10 days..

 

[whosurcaddie]

Don't physically remove it! Inject it with kalk paste.

 

[thestreetzking]

yeah be careful when removing it, you can use hot water or vinegar as well if u wanna inject it

 

[Duke4life]

No 10 day wait, my kind of eviction...... Lol

Whosurcaddie - don't have any kalk paste on hand, was going to boil water and hit with a syringe, will order if this doesn't work.

Thanks ya'll

 

[Duke4life]

yeah be careful when removing it, you can use hot water or vinegar as well if u wanna inject it

Vinegar? Seems like you can do a lot with vinegar in this hobby...

 

[KafudaFish]

Got any pickling lime?

 

[KingTriton1]

Got peppermint shrimp?

 

[MegIsAwesome06]

I've got a lot of this in my tank too. A whole rock with tiny babies on it. And one even growing on the back wall. I don't have a syringe handy. Any other methods?

 

[Duke4life]

No peppermints, went with skunk cleaners with the idea of them not being a meal hopefully to my chainlink eel. Only 1 I see, so I'm not overrun.

Positive I did find a small snail in my sump.

 

[Duke4life]

I've got a lot of this in my tank too. A whole rock with tiny babies on it. And one even growing on the back wall. I don't have a syringe handy. Any other methods?

Post a pic

 

[ericarenee]

Vinegar? Seems like you can do a lot with vinegar in this hobby...

Run over to sandy's and grab some KALK POWER. I have not found pickling lime in the stores yet.. But it will be soon.
Just make a little paste out of it and cover it up. Dosing it with hot water and syringe will only **** it and next week there will be 10.....

You cant live far from sandy,s as its kinda in the middle of the City...

 

[Duke4life]

Definitely don't want 10, and no not to far from Sandys. Gonna have to do this.

 

[MegIsAwesome06]

 

[whosurcaddie]

Whats on your rock isn't aiptasia looks like clove polyps to me. That back glass is definitely aiptasia. Don't scrape it off. Your drug store will have a syringe, you want the ones they give to diabetics, its a small needle.

What the first pic looks like to me. Clove Polyps.

 

[ericarenee]

whats on your rock isn't aiptasia looks like clove polyps to me. That back glass is definitely aiptasia. Don't scrape it off. Your drug store will have a syringe, you want the ones they give to diabetics, its a small needle.

What the first pic looks like to me. Clove polyps.

+1..

 

[nuxx]

Back glass aiptasia for sure.