Damn You Aptasia!

reidcrandall

reidcrandall

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I'm going to get some pics here in a bit, but I have what I think is some Aptasia growing on one of my live rocks. And my tank startup had been going relatively well...

I was going to just throw the little rock in some boiling water for a few and let it just grow back in time so that I wouldn't have to deal with an outbreak, but wouldn't you know it: There is a beautiful bright green Zoo on the same rock that just opened up. What luck.

Any reccommendations on how to kill the little bastards without sacrificing the rock? They're not big enough to inject anything into yet, and I'd prefer to take care of them before it gets to that point.

Reid
 
I thought of that, but I am sort of scared that I might get the species that eat everything that have been mistaken for the kind that don't Any tips on how to make sure that doesn't happen?

Reid
 
i put an apstasia in a fresh water tank for about two weeks now. the darn thing looks like hell but it is still moving. these things are incredible
 
We used Joe juice on a zoo rock to rid aptasia and it melted some of the zoos. Maybe my roomate did it wrong but it did it on two different zoo rocks.
 
copperband butterfly

copperband butterfly

If your tank is big enough (100+) you can put a copperband butterfly in there. They're beautiful fish, and have been known to munch on aiptasia... sad thing is, they're a hit and miss just like your peppermint shrimp.
 
I'd love a copperband, but I only have a 29 running. Way too small for one of them. My best option is probably the pepermint shrimp, but I am afraid which species I will end up with. How can you tell the difference between the different kinds that are called peppermint shrimp?

Reid
 
You could still try Joe's. just get it as close to the center as possible. I'd say that's your best option if you don't want to risk the shrimp
 
Bury them in a Kalk and little water mixture, its like a paste and will fry them. Pepperments work good on small ones, but not the large ones.

But don't take my advice Im the aiptasia king!

aiptasiaproblem.jpg
 
Apparently, Joe's Juice is a mixture of non-iodized salt and kalkwasser. You don't need to inject it, just squirt it at the mouth part. In theory the added salt keeps the aiptasia from retracting from the kalk.

Having paid $10 for a 20ml bottle of Joe's Juice, which didn't really work any better than kalk paste, I don't feel any guilt about mentioning the apparent makeup of Joe's Juice (they filed for a patent, so the secret formula is public).

V
 
WOW nice link fishylover. You could also just remove the zoo polyp and throw the rubble rock before you have more
 
use ph buffer, put some cyrstals (this is the powder form which raises ph) in a thin rigid tube and position over the offending apt. gently blow if nessicary and the powder should fall into the tenticles, snapping shut. Watch them melt like slugs with salt. i've never had one come back when done right and can be used carefully near other corals.
Ryan
 
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