Pest Anemone??

[AvalancheZ71]

I have 4 weird looking anemones that just started growing in my tank, they look a little bit like an anemone, but they are brownish/clear and don't have as many "arms". I was in the LHS and saw one in a tank they had and he said it was a pest, like a dandelion. But he did not have any answers for getting rid of it, or if I even need to.

I have a 90 gallon tank with a 40 gallon sump, the water quality is good, and I have 500 watts of light on for 9 hours a day. I also have about 2500GPH of flow, and everything looks happy.

 

[Slakker]

Sounds like it might be aiptasia...definitely bad, they tend to take tanks over.

Peppermint shrimp will often eat them, otherwise using a syringe to inject them with vinegar, boiling water, lemon juice, a product called Joe's Juice, or kalkwasser paste should kill them.

 

[FOSELONE]

like this ???
peppermint shrimp will do you good...

 

[AvalancheZ71]

Exactly like that. Thanks.

 

[CA2OR]

Peppermint Shrimp or Aptasia Control is what you need.

 

[FOSELONE]

better get some shrimp quick...these guys will multiply like crazy...

 

[jeffANDallison]

We have one of these anemones that came on our first live rock, we feed him whole shrimp daily and he seems to be happy enough that he is still our only one, just really big now.

 

[garygb]

In reference to Jeff's post, an aiptasia that can eat a whole shrimp daily? I'm wondering if it's an aiptasia. They usually don't get that big. There are other anemones, such a Bartholomea annulata, that can be mistaken for aiptasia and they get large and don't divide commonly in aquariums. Pic?

 

[jmadison]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13871315#post13871315 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by garygb
In reference to Jeff's post, an aiptasia that can eat a whole shrimp daily? I'm wondering if it's an aiptasia. They usually don't get that big. There are other anemones, such a Bartholomea annulata, that can be mistaken for aiptasia and they get large and don't divide commonly in aquariums. Pic?

The aptasia at work in the liverock tanks will catch and eat WHOLE feeder fish... they can eat large things.