I bought some aptasia today!!

[Salty Bginners]

UPDATE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Soy sauce...made the aptasia smell yummy but did not kill them...LT. high salinity and a virety of oils in your tank..possibly harmful to some filterfeeders and fish.

Melafix- Plausible.....more tests to follow

Penny...NA...needs more time

Jalapino... FAILED made them bigger

Ron I need more "volunteers" for my tests. and thank you all for your support. That is all 4 now. I will test some fw and the liter idea. I would appreciate more ideas if you have em. Oh and does any one want to loan me some kalk?
that is all 4 this update.
-Bginners.
UPDATE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

You should order some anabolic steroids off line and see what they do lol

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

lol im just trying to break 1000 posts tonight lol

 

[Salty Bginners]

FW tests are in...All i did waz squirt em and suck em out. so confirmed...although i think there is a 99.9% chance that they will come back

 

[Salty Bginners]

Lighter tests r in!

Lighter.....FAILED.....

So i got agitated cause water kept puttin out my flame soooooo....

Gasoline+Lighter....Confirmed... LT- you get a gasy residue even if you let it burn till the flame goes out. NOT RECOMENDED. unless of course you dont like your tank.

I am now out of vic.errrr volunteers to test. PLZ if you have any send em my way. that is all
-Bginners

 

[coralreefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7710772#post7710772 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nathan4Wvu
I think he means taking the rock out fist lol

Yeah (s)he assumed you'd figure that part out. :rolleye1:
Forgot you guys are from West Virginia

 

[Salty Bginners]

West by god virginia.. and dont 4 get it ! lol

 

[Aquayne_wv]

I have always wondered about uv light. My dentist has a UV light that shines through fiber optic cables. I wonder how far the UV from a UV steralizer will travel through fiber optics before losing its killing strength?

 

[Salty Bginners]

IDK? ill look into it prehaps put the aptasia in a tanning bed.....OHHH MARY

 

[Salty Bginners]

What do you all think about sodium hydroxide solution?

 

[Reef4Fun]

are you looking for something to put into the tank or to spot kill those things? If it is something to add to the tank, then it would need to be safe for all the life, and the only thing that is coming to my mind is fresh water. What if they were blasted with fresh water while adding it to our tank. Would that do anything at all? What about some kind of sand blasting, directly on the rock? Seems to me that anything that would be harmful to the tank and its animals would be a no go, stuff like gasoline, any kind of acid, things like that is no good. If it could not be added directly to the tank then it is useless, IMO. Keep us updated, you are doing a great job!

 

[englishreefer]

I figure some people out their are at their wits end with these things, Probably not the best solution but one i figure has to work. Trying baking the rock for a month or two.

Obviously most are not willing to rip down their reef and stick all their rock in drums for a couple of months.

Im tempted to get my brother to do this in his second hand 100g. Their is litrally thousands in his tank, some pretty big aswell.

It has come to a point where he is giving up hope in the hobby and surely a method like this is better than loosing another reefer to these rats of the ocean.

 

[Reef4Fun]

Yeah, maybe he could start over and put some peppermint shrimp in there to start with, that would keep them down.

 

[Salty Bginners]

1 i am doing this just to help you all. (i have never had an aptasia problem)
2 I gave up on a mass kill a long time ago. (its impossible imo)
3 I am looking for a target kill
4 Sodium Hydroxide ( where i got the idea)http://www.thekrib.com/Marine/aptasia.html

 

[Salty Bginners]

I took some to a tanning salon.
To make a long story short it trippled in size and became darker in color.

 

[Aquayne_wv]

I know you are probably kidding but that is not the same spectrum. You can buy the actual kill spectrum bulbs at State Electric or WV Electric.

 

[Salty Bginners]

i was not kidding. I swear it trippled in size and got black.

 

[LtPiper]

And what kind of bulb would this be?

 

[firefish2020]

You would need to ask Mary that, I believe she helped with that experniment. I think they are standard Tanning beds though so thats alot of UV. Im not sure what this proves or anything but he's not joking and thats just sad IMO.

 

[LtPiper]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7723604#post7723604 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aquayne_wv
You can buy the actual kill spectrum bulbs at State Electric or WV Electric.

I was talking about these bulbs.