How to kill Borneman anemones (Phymanthus buitendijki)?

[OrionN]

Long story short, 15+ years ago I bought a P. buitendijki for $20.00. Over the years, they multiplied. Now the absolutely take over my 320 gal DT. Nothing eat them, they are aggressive and extremely hardy. I tired injected them with Kalk paste and they just smile at me.
Cannot peel them off of rock very well because they really hide their foot in crevices in the rock.
To remove them from the rock I have to put the rock in a dark sump, next to a wall. In the dark they will move to higher place and once move to the wall, I can remove them and flush them.
I am always on the lookout for any of these anemone that is easily removable from my aquarium and remove them.

Anybody with any experience in dealing with these pests? I took care of aptasia. These guys are at least an order of magnitude harder. I am thinking of throw out the baby with the bath water and just save what I can and nuke the rest of my corals and rocks.

Please help if you can.

 

[nemguy]

When I had that problem I built a 7w laser, it was a lot stronger then the ones you can buy "aptasia wand" and I am able to shine my laser through the tank burn any pests as they show up. I had the problem in my tank, it came from my local fish store. I was able to clear them out by just zapping everyone I saw with the laser. It's also easy to have some small fish like a file fish because after you melt the anemone away they usually just eat what's left of them after they're all burnt up lol


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[OrionN]

nemguy,
You got PM. It would be great if you can help.

 

[OrionN]

A beautiful pest.
This Borneman anemone, AKA Phymanthus buitendijki, is a very beautiful anemone. I used to love it until it take over my reef after 14 years.

One of them

A group of them are not so nice. Kill everything they come in contact with very quickly.

 

[Razorback reef]

Some of them are very pretty.

 

[OrionN]

They are all clone, from one singe anemone 14 years ago. Maybe 18 years. I got it from a LFS in San Antonio that have since go out of business.
Under high light they are green with pink/purple in coloration. Very attractive, a lot better than then brown on I started out with.

 

[Zuuu]

I had a couple, and got rid of them by forceps. While anemone is open, strongly hold its leg as close to the rock as you can get with forceps and pull. If you hold strong enough, you'll get it off the stone. But it is important that forceps have "teeth" on the end so that anemone wouldn't slip away
https://www.homesciencetools.com/me...eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/D/E/DE-FORCEP.jpg