Live Rock/Aiptasia/Majano HELP

[dilligaf_biker69]

I have a 125 reef at this time and will be moving to a new 180 in the next few weeks....tank and stand are here..figuring out the sump and all now...Question is...my live rock has Aiptasia and majanos and I cannot zap them all in the 125 it has been tough the last few months as they are growing as fast as the corals and cheato and everything else....can I "cook" the aiptasia/majanos off as I "cook" the live rock or will they just come back when I give them light again?...Can I soak the rocks in a Kalkwasser solution?...knowing thats what I have used in the past few months to zap the ones I can reach?...My problem is I do not want this same problem in my new 180...any suggestions?...trash this live rock and buy new live rock?...Lemme know ur thoughts...Thanks
Roy

 

[Me No Nemo]

We've placed rock in fresh water for several days and killed off all aptasia. Gets pretty stinky, though, so I would do it somewhere away from living areas. We then blast it with fresh water. Of course, everything else dies off also, but placing some live rock with it in the new tank should quickly reseed the rock. HTH, Marcye

 

[jsl6v8]

throw in 3 pepperment shrimp, I had some bad aptasia in my 55 3 pepperments and a week later, where did the aptasia go?

 

[sytanek]

Would have to agree with the peppermint shrimp thing. Cheap and easy.

 

[Me No Nemo]

Peppermint shrimp or copperband butterflys are an option...just depends how long you are willing to wait and how bad the aptasia is. Peppermints will also eat any feather dusters you have (as will the copperbands) and they are great filter feeders in your tank. If you don't care about those (I personally love having feather dusters in my tanks) than either would be an option as well.

 

[mflamb]

Whatever you do, don't "throw away" the rock. If you can't get something to eat the aptasia, take the rock out of your tank and let it dry for a couple weeks. Then blast it with a spray nozzle on a water hose to clean it up. You can put it in the 180 as Marcye said with good quality live rock or live sand and it will "come back to life" quickly.

 

[lifesworksataol]

if you have time do the peppermints first - they had mine gone in no time but you can just move the feather dusters first if you have them
the kalk bath didnt work so great with me except when i used it almost straight and dunked the hole rock in there - but you could always put the peps in your refug and do a few rocks at a time or whatever

 

[cowboyswife]

Hubby has 3 peppermint shrimp in his tank, and they havent touched any of his featherdusters. They had his aiptasia gone within a few days. If you dont have a TON of aiptasia in there, Joes Juice works wonders.