Need help with aiptasia fast!!!!

Ottawa has a few
Aqua valley east and west-awesome stores. At the moment they don't have much acro's but stocked and friendly

Marine scape- they are very helpful, and have a large stock.

Big als east is more FW but has some SW stuff and the BA's West is pretty good
 
I tried a copper banded. Mine at aiptasias, but I could only keep him alive for a year. I tried an aiptasia eating filefish. He ate them... after he at my acans and zoas (and took a giant neon colored poop). I tried the aiptasia wand, but it's pretty useless.

So far, kalk paste is the only thing that works, and it has to be part of my weekly maintenance routine.
 
And don't forget to get a plastic syringe with a blunt metal tip to skewer them and inject the kalk into their bodies! Hate the little nasties. I like to cover them with more kalk too in case they release spores.
 
So kalk seems to be the number one choice aside from adding peppermint shrimp or CBB...I really don't know why I am so nervous about doing it... :S
 
You know that many here intentionally dose kalk to grow coral, right?

It's diluted, of course, but what you're not adding a poison or anything. It's not chemically dangerous at the level of a few ml. You just don't want it physically landing on a coral's flesh. It has the same effect as it does on aiptasia.
 
Filefish and Copperbands are hit and miss.
You want guaranteed results? Get a Raccoon Butterfly.

Money back guarantee.
;)
:)
 
Copperband I have one for ten years and have never seen aptasia in the display although I find them in the over flows. I had two others that never touched aptasia.
Peppermints, I added them to another tank they ate the aptasia, afterwards they started in on corals. I removed them and aptasia came back. I was told they are great lawnmowers, but do not remove the foot.
Berghia Nudibranches, I have used them three times and worked every time. They can take up to six months to eradicate the aptasia. On my last try after a couple of months I started noticing all the aptasia was jumping on the glass from the rocks trying to evade the Berghia. Rules that I have followed three to five is all I added, acclimation is key, watch your glass not to scrape off the eggs, no peppermints, no wrasses, and patience. Aptasia has never come back in a tank that I added Berghia's.
 
I had 1 aptasia in my tank about 2 months ago. Did research and ended up trying the lemon just injection method. After the 2nd attempt. I did not see it again. Just yesterday my daughter points out that she sees 3 of them. Sure enough, 1 next to another. So my next step is to either try kalk then super glue the area or just super glue right over them.
 
alton said:
Copperband I have one for ten years and have never seen aptasia in the display although I find them in the over flows. I had two others that never touched aptasia.
Peppermints, I added them to another tank they ate the aptasia, afterwards they started in on corals. I removed them and aptasia came back. I was told they are great lawnmowers, but do not remove the foot.
Berghia Nudibranches, I have used them three times and worked every time. They can take up to six months to eradicate the aptasia. On my last try after a couple of months I started noticing all the aptasia was jumping on the glass from the rocks trying to evade the Berghia. Rules that I have followed three to five is all I added, acclimation is key, watch your glass not to scrape off the eggs, no peppermints, no wrasses, and patience. Aptasia has never come back in a tank that I added Berghia's.
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why no wrasses? Will they eat the berghias?
 
Has anyone tried a calcium mix. Local fish store owner uses a mix of liquid calcium and squirts it directly on it. Uses it right next to coral frags and everything.
 
Kalk/lime works so well because it has a very high pH that burns the dickens out of it. Calcium chloride wouldn't as it doesn't have the alkalinity component hence 2 part dosing.
 
If it's a small outbreak and you can see most of your aiptasia, then the calcium or boiling water will work, AiptasiaX from Red Sea has been effective for me, but if you have hard to reach areas where you cant reach with a syringe, you'll need a biological way to control them. Peppermint shrimp can work, but they can also get a taste for coral polyps, anything that eats them in nature has a chance to eat other ornamental pieces.
 
Hey yall, im fairly new to the saltwater world. I have had a 110 as my first saltwater. Had it for 2 years. It was a FOWLR. "dead LR". Had minimal issues, just ick and algae and such. I had to take it down because I moved. I just recently set up a 40g. A "friend" lol, gave my 40lb of actual live rock from his 150g established reef, because he upgraded to a 225g. Anyway, since I never had coral and he said his LR would help cycle my tank, I want along with it. Cute little brown anemone soon flourished and I had all sizes all over. My LFS guy said to freeze the rock. IT WORKED.... I think. Its been 2 days and no sign of them on that rock. That was easy because it just had coralline algae on it. The other rocks have a few unknown type of coral that look like hands on them. Should I learn how to remove these coral and freeze the other rocks, treat the tank, start all over? These things are spreading tineyones all over.
 
NOLA950 said:
Hey yall, im fairly new to the saltwater world. I have had a 110 as my first saltwater. Had it for 2 years. It was a FOWLR. "dead LR". Had minimal issues, just ick and algae and such. I had to take it down because I moved. I just recently set up a 40g. A "friend" lol, gave my 40lb of actual live rock from his 150g established reef, because he upgraded to a 225g. Anyway, since I never had coral and he said his LR would help cycle my tank, I want along with it. Cute little brown anemone soon flourished and I had all sizes all over. My LFS guy said to freeze the rock. IT WORKED.... I think. Its been 2 days and no sign of them on that rock. That was easy because it just had coralline algae on it. The other rocks have a few unknown type of coral that look like hands on them. Should I learn how to remove these coral and freeze the other rocks, treat the tank, start all over? These things are spreading tineyones all over.
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karimwassef said:
Did anything else survive freezing?

Your wife let you put live rock in your freezer?? Wow..,
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Might be best if NOLA starts a new thread with this. Titled "freezing rock" maybe? Post some pictures of your corals so they can be ID'd before you freeze them.

Is NOLA for New Orleans Louisiana? I grew up there.
 
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