Found a cure for aptasia lol

[dugg]

I had a few aptasia that i have been battling with no luck, and some other anemones that are a PITA too. I found that if they are on a rock that has no other corals on it 3 minutes in a microwave will cure the issue. They pop like popcorn haha. I have some small greem anemones that hitchhiked in also that spread faster then aptasia and kill everything they touch. There was one on a rock i bought and within a month there were well over a hundred of them. They even show up on the glass, and if you smash them they spead like bubble algae. They met thier match in the microwave today though lol.

 

[Lifefreak0007]

LMAO this is to great NUKE them...

 

[skiformance]

sound like manjano

 

[dugg]

Don't think they are Manjano. I have never seen these before. They are green and just look like mini BTA's. My main lights are off for the night, but here are a few pics. I call em Herpes anemones lol. Can't get rid of em. I have injected them with Joe's juice, vinigar, boiling water, and calk paste. The nuking is the first time i have killed them, but they are all over rocks that i can't nuke too.

 

[gregzbobo]

Look like majanos to me.

Be careful nuking the rock, expanding water vapor deep inside could cause it to explode.

 

[BrianOKC]

HaHa Greg has a good point that would be priceless..... I could just see it now your insurance agent " So exactly what caused the microwave to explode and destroy the kitchen" ?

 

[dugg]

First off my insurance just went up by $500 a year so i would love that lol. If that's manjano, then does anyone know of any critters that will eat them?

 

[mikencarol]

I had a ton of Aptasia until I added 3 peppermint shrimp...now I have zero!! That is one of the few things my LFS told me that was dead on right.

 

[dugg]

I got all of the aptasia and peppermints don't touch these things.

 

[sharky's machin]

First off my insurance just went up by $500 a year so i would love that lol. If that's manjano, then does anyone know of any critters that will eat them?

I guess the $500 increase is a fair trade off for a $20,000 kitchen loss. Sounds reasonable to me. :worried:

 

[mikencarol]

You gott me by the tenacles??!!

 

[trigger:)]

I enjected my aptasia with lemon juice, weeds B gone!

 

[dugg]

I injected them with lemon juice and everything else i listed above. They weren't even phased by it.

 

[gregzbobo]

Might try Aiptasia-X, but I've heard its essentially the same thing as Joe's Juice. I've heard copperbands MIGHT go after them, but I wouldn't count on it, and adding a fish to control a couple pest anemones seems a bit overkill anyway.

 

[dugg]

It's more than a couple of them. I would put the figure at more like 250 or more.

 

[madkat]

I know I may get blasted for a newb move here, but I also had aptasia I could not get rid of, came in on LR from LFS.

I took 1/4 tsp of marine buffer powder and added it to about 3ml of water. Put it in a eye dropper and shot it rite in their mouth. BAM no more aptasia.

 

[Cichlid-Dave]

Ok I think the microwave idea is good funny and dangerous all at once but I would also believe you might kill off any benefical bacteria. What about using a bernzomatic torch on the removed rock. More concentrated fire with less collateral damage.

 

[dugg]

Actually the microwave worked great on the rocks i did it to. I'm sure if you nuked them too long they might break, but 3 minutes isn't that long. Didn't seem to be any issues with it. I just did a few rocks so i'm not worried about the bacteria issue. I don't have any aptasia left, just the green ones in the picture that seem to be bullet proof so far. I have injected them with everything i can think of and they just seem to eat it and pop right back up. I need to find something that eats them i guess, and peppermints don't touch them, plus my clowns eat the peppermints like candy lol.

 

[Tony Romano]

My tank is too big to fit in microwave...

 

[blakers82]

Lol.