Is this not wanted? I found something else !!

[bigginapk]

I was told this is not wanted in the tank but I can't remember what the name of it is. does anyone know what it is and whats the best way to treat it ?

 

[cowboyswife]

Its aiptasia, and it is a pest. Either joes juice or kalk paste will kill it.

 

[jsl6v8]

aptesia, spelling might be off, there are a couple things you can use to kill it. Joe's Juice is a popular one, and Tropic marine makes a similar product but I can't seem to remember the name of it. Just go into your LFS and announce "I Bigginapk have aptesia and I require a means of destroying it" they will get you the right stuff.

 

[bigginapk]

jsl6v8 Thats too funny !! I will do it, too. Its attached to a frag, I cant just take it out and scrape it off or will that just make it spread !? Thanks cowboyswife! How the RBTA doing ?

 

[Largo50]

Scraping breaks it up and any piece will regrow.

 

[bigginapk]

after looking things over this was just around the corner on the same frag ! What the heck is this ??

 

[jsl6v8]

I'm not sure, could you post a larger picture, almost looks like a tube worm the way I'm seeing it, but I've never heard of a red tubed tube worm before.

 

[bigginapk]

its got like a round donut thing and that tube is comming out of the center (holeof the donut?)with tenticles that move in and out ! I will try to post a bigger picture give me a few !! Thanks everyone for the help ! Chad

 

[jsl6v8]

are they long stringy clear tenticles, extremely thin almost like fishing line?

 

[bigginapk]

as you see in the first pic of it, it i quess you could say that. here's another pic not much better but a little bigger.

 

[jsl6v8]

well if it is what I think it is, kill it, but I'm not entirely sure that it is what I think it is. If it is what I think it is, I had them they had very long tenticles, a handful of inches long and when I would touch on they would retract, rather quickly really, they were attack my corals and ****ing them off. I would kill them by either taking them outside and chucking them down the street, or crushing the shell with some acrylic tubing that I had, I was more fond of the chucking them down the street method though. Although to this day I fear calls from PETA. But like I said I'm not entirely sure thats the same thing as what I had.

 

[bigginapk]

someone on another forum called it a Vermetid Snail after googleing it, thats what it appears to be. says to be harmless unless it overpopulates the tank. Which could happen if there where a bunch more and said to reproduce quickly after a few months and could cause no harm other than clogging up plumbing and restrickting water flow. says it is a great food for a hermit crab which is where I think I will send him to the big fish bowl in the sky !! With a little help from me too save myself some future problems. Thanks for the help !!

 

[sytanek]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10895475#post10895475 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bigginapk
jsl6v8 Thats too funny !! I will do it, too. Its attached to a frag, I cant just take it out and scrape it off or will that just make it spread !? Thanks cowboyswife! How the RBTA doing ?

Hey its Becca. I hijacked Brannon's screen name Its doing better!

 

[bigginapk]

Cool glad to hear I hated to see him that way. Is he opened up now and eating ?