Possibly a Moronic question- Aptasia

[sdm]

Well, I'm stumped. After looking at my tank again (normally I'm focused entirely on "Phil", to a degree that I'm practically oblivious to everything else) I realized that the cnidarian devils are in there on the rocks in the typical huge numbers- 2+ per square inch of rock surface. The reason I'm stumped is that a lot are from before phil went in the tank (rocks are from 90g tanks refugium), and a week before I got him, I went on kalk-injecting spree. The whole week the tank looked like it was having an underwater version of a blizzard! (I did a major water change before he went in to fix the calcium and pH levels, which were a bit off from the dosings) One would think that would have finished them-worked in the 90 and that was with tank feedings and the extra kalk was blown away from the powerheads. Anyhoo, any ideas how to get rid of them?

 

[DensityMan]

Moe, Larry and Curly have done a fantastic job of removing all (visible) aiptasia from Tim's abode...

(Peppermint shrimp)

 

[sdm]

Yeah......but peppermints are $9.99 around here...expensive for critters that'll end up chow eventually!

 

[Limbo]

$9.99??????

Thought they were expensive here at $2 Guess I was wrong.

Temporarily you could put Phil in your refugium, get a peppermint, let him do his thang and move him to your main, then phil back.

Phil may see it as a holiday

 

[sdm]

Hmmmm....I guess....but phil is still in the "is this a good burrow? or this? or thisorthisorthis...." stage. I think he's almost decided, but not quite, and I dont wanna go through that stage again!

 

[DensityMan]

The peppermints have co-existed with Tim for over a month now... for what it's worth.

 

[sdm]

Wow...maybe the peppermints are doable! Yay!

 

[leaffish75]

pay for peper mint shrimp? I catch them for free.

 

[sdm]

Yeah, well up in wisconsin it's kinda hard to find a PUBLIC body of saltwater...(i.e. outside aquarists houses

 

[dc]

Yeah, well up in wisconsin it's kinda hard to find a PUBLIC body of saltwater...(i.e. outside aquarists houses

Kind of like Wyoming?

 

[sdm]

Exactly.:lol: