How to inject pest anemones, aiptasia, etc.

[Reefmack]

I've read numerous posts of injecting Joe's Juice, boiling water, vinegar, etc. into pest anemones like majanos & things like aiptasia. What I'm confused about is what's used to do the injection? A syringe I assume but do you need a needle on the syringe, or do you just use the plastic tip on the syringe for the injection? If it's a needle are they easy to get at a pharmacy?

Thanks

 

[coker98]

If you get the joes juice or use kalk paste you dont have to neccessarily inject them with it. Try to get it on their mouth and them just coat them in it and turn all of your pumps off including the protein skimmer and return pumps. Let it marinate for about 10 minutes then turn everything on and watch them be gone within 3 hours. Try to get it on the mouth if you dont just coat the **** out of them and they should just melt away.

 

[Village Idiot]

I use a 1cc tuberculin syringe that I got from work -- like this: tuberculin syringe . You should be able to buy them at a pharmacy.

It has a very small gauge needle that is handy for getting into the tiny holes that these buggers live in.

 

[Reefmack]

Thanks. I wasn't sure if you could get syringes with needles without a prescription or not.

 

[the other tang]

I use my baster , it works great with my kalk paste mix. I had issues wil needles plugging with the thick mixture. I feed them as stated above, then wait a min or two for them to retract, then shove the baster in/over the hole and fill it too. I have close to a 100% kill rate with that method. Be careful not to smash the pests while dosing them, they will retract and breed like rabbits.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9874624#post9874624 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tlmack
Thanks. I wasn't sure if you could get syringes with needles without a prescription or not.

It can be difficult to buy a syringe from certain pharmacists, but you can get insulin syringes without question almost. BTW, I try to avoid using kalk-based slurries in my syringes because I've had problems with it clogging my syringe. I prefer vinegar.

 

[Reefmack]

Thanks for all of the additional advice and directions. I have a regular turkey baster devoted to the tank, but I'm afraid that with that big opening I might drop some on the close-by polyps I want, so I'm hesitant to use that in this case. My wife offered me the use of a turkey/meat injector she has - looks like a big syringe but the hole in the needle is on the side, not the tip, and I'd probably mess things up trying to use that thing. On the other hand I may be able to use it if I cut the tip off above the side slot on the needle. At least it wouldn't plug up like a small needle.