Help w/ overpopulating anemones!

[Red Reefet]

Well I had to have them. 2 years ago when I started my tank I insisted the the LFS give me some of these tulip anemones to help make my tank look populated. He said they would spread and be hard to get rid of. Here we are 2 years later and thereare around 30+. They are latching onto other corals and causing damage.. How can I get rid of them easily, since pulling them off only makes them divide into more.

 

[finding nemo]

I to thought they were addorable and bought them from a person here on RC.
Well let me tell you, after a year I had over 100 of them, crowding out my zoos and stinging my xenia and shrooms.
So a few weeks ago I mixed up some calk paste, just thin enough to suck up in a syringe.
I put a drop of it on each and every one of them I found and withing hours they were dead.
I still find some every now and then and do the same thing with them.
They are worse the aptasia.
Give that a go and you will get rid of them, just don't drop the paste on anything else as it will kill that to.
I lost a lot of zoos while trying to irradicate them from the rock the zoos are on.

 

[Mud Shrimp Moe]

What are these? I've been in the hobby about 20 months now and haven't heard of them. I take it they are different than aiptasia. Got any pics?

 

[finding nemo]

Here is a tulip anemone
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[Red Reefet]

Yep. Those are them!!! So what kind of caulk paste? They are ruining 2 brains & a few other corals. I also have a few aiptasia. How do I get rid of those also?

 

[Phyto]

I use a little pickling lime with enough water to make the mixture a thick paste. It should come out of the syringe as little balls. You may want to test your thickness in a cup of water so you don't cloud up your tank with an alkaline paste. Just drop a ball onto the mouth and it will melt the sensitive tissues.
For your Aiptasia try the Berghia nudibranch. It eats nothing but Aiptasia. A lady here on RC (saltyunderground on RC, or saltyunderground.com) sells them for 15 each. I have ordered from her twice. She is very nice and reliable.

 

[Mud Shrimp Moe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7729927#post7729927 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Phyto
I use a little pickling lime with enough water to make the mixture a thick paste. It should come out of the syringe as little balls. You may want to test your thickness in a cup of water so you don't cloud up your tank with an alkaline paste. Just drop a ball onto the mouth and it will melt the sensitive tissues.
For your Aiptasia try the Berghia nudibranch. It eats nothing but Aiptasia. A lady here on RC (saltyunderground on RC, or saltyunderground.com) sells them for 15 each. I have ordered from her twice. She is very nice and reliable.

Don't they end up starving to death after they clean out your aiptasia? I'm not really willing to do that to them.

 

[TOURKID]

yeah. i had a lettuce nudi for green hair algea. my intentions were to return it to the lfs before it died. unfortunatly... my anemone ate it.... :O

 

[Red Reefet]

So it eats green hair algae too?

 

[AquaReeferMan]

No they were talking about 2 different nudis.

 

[Red Reefet]

Someday I'll read the whole post.......Thanks!

 

[PRESTO2345]

You should offer them for sale before you start killing them off. I'm sure between RC, LFS, and Ebay you should be able to get rid of quite a few...

 

[N_Sarno]

I have quite a few of them in my tank.. my mom likes then but I want to get rid of them before they spread spread spreadddddd

 

[Red Reefet]

I really do feel bad about just killing them. I guess that'sI have so many and am just now doing something about them. I'm not sure who would want them though.

 

[Beng]

Hahaha...I use to see a Ebay Seller selling these Tulip anemones on Ebay. Buyers were snatching them up and they were pretty happy with purchase to.

Beng

 

[WDLV]

Are these the same as majano anemones?

 

[Red Reefet]

Beng, another lfs I know sells whole rocks full of them! And they actually do look nice in his show tank. Unbelievable!

It seems now I have to make a decision, it's either the corals or the anemones. The thing that also gets me is that I have a GBTA and another greenish purple unknown anemone. Both of them have never caused any problems with any corals and have only encountered eachother a few times that I know of in the 2 years I've had them. If these other guys were peaceful, I wouldn't mind.

 

[818]

people on here sell Aptasia eating nudibranches...In my local Reef Section, people pass them around rather then sell them and off to a new home so they wont starve since thats all they eat.

Sam

 

[Red Reefet]

Anyone know where to get pickling lime?

 

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7824100#post7824100 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Red Reefet
Anyone know where to get pickling lime?

I have some.

Good luck finding it with retailers.