How to kill aptasia.

[madreefer14]

I'm pretty sure I have an aptasia in my tank. Unfortunately I cant take a photo of it as my camera isn't that great and the pictures come out blurry and you wouldnt be able to see anything. It is clear with white bands on the tenticles and about the size of a dime with tenticles extended. It tucks itself away when the lights are on and only extends itself at night. I havent added any new live rock or live stock in over a year and have never seen this before until about a month ago. Just yesterday I noticed another one where one had never been before. Is it possible for aptasia to go this long before rearing their ugly heads? I was thinking of injecting it with some newly mixed kalkwaser. Any suggestions?

 

[Obliduty]

peppermint shrimp, to me more efficient then joes juice

 

[atwinparadox2]

Copper Banded Butterfly ate my aptasia like it was going out of style. I don't know if this was normal, but I do not have any traces left in my tank! Might be something to think of if you have the room in your tank.

 

[jonewald]

Kalkwasser solutions, lemon juice, and Joe's Juice all seem to work to varying degrees. Never had luck with peppermint shrimp personally.

For me, Joe's Juice has worked best. Just make sure it doesn't drift near any corals. It really upset some zoas of mine.

 

[Octopus8]

I noticed one small Aptasia in my 24g about three weeks ago. A week later I found two more so I tossed a single Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) in there on Saturday. It took a few days for the shrimp to find them, but I just noticed that they are all completely gone.

 

[madreefer14]

shot them up with 1cc each of VERY concentrated Kalkwaser. Death by lethal injection. They just instantly shriveled up. No spike in pH noted. PROBLEM SOLVED!

 

[ScottyS]

I tried injecting kalk, but they grew back in nearby places. Then I tried a new product Aptasia-X by Red Sea. You don't inject it (and thus you don't burst the little suckers into many small pieces which can re-grow), you deliver it to to tenticles with the blunt needle and syringe supplied with the product, and the aptasia "eat it"and poof, they're gone.

 

[STREAMLINEGFX]

X2 for Aptasia-X! Search youtube and you will find a video killing aptasia with it.

 

[mikchabe]

Berghia Nudibranchs - thinking about getting some myself.

I'm not having any luck with Joes Juice.

 

[JackKerouac]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13016797#post13016797 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mikchabe
Berghia Nudibranchs - thinking about getting some myself.

I'm not having any luck with Joes Juice.

talking about the biological solution I think that's the best one
the only prob is when they don't find more Aiptasia in the tank ...

here there is a nice video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VDhykIiQpg

 

[Magnus6208]

Caribbean Peppermint Shrimp...starve your tank for a couple of days....gone.

 

[tweetyfish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12832717#post12832717 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by atwinparadox2


Copper Banded Butterfly ate my aptasia like it was going out of style. I don't know if this was normal, but I do not have any traces left in my tank! Might be something to think of if you have the room in your tank.

Ditto

 

[snorvich]

Copperband butterflies: some eat aiptasia, others won't. Some will eat in captivity, others won't. Some are reef safe, others are not.
Berghia nudibranchs will work. Peppermint shrimp will also work.

 

[tangsrbest]

i have used the kalk before made it as thick as could go throw needle
never had one or piece of one come back