Stupid Aiptasia
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mikemartinez
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Peppermint Shrimps and Joe's Juice worked great for me... Maybe try a combination of both..
Turtle77
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I got a pep shrimp and he wont come out of the center of the rocks, and i do aiptaisia-x every day, LFS sold it to me says its better than Joes Juice. It kills what I treat with it problem is I can treat one side of the tank and tomorrow the other side is overgrown and then vice versa. Is it ever going to end?
Pickupman66
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Turtle,
attached is a very good recepie for apistasia. I have used it and it works very well. cheap and easy to make...I keep some old pill bottles of it around in case I need it. just get you a medicine syringe to dose with so it squirts easy.
I take a ½ to 2/3 cup of pickling lime or kalkwasser mix the dry type. The pickling lime (buy it at kroger) does better and add a few spoons of R/O or distilled water and stir these to look a bit like a thick pancake batter almost and then stir in a tip of a tea spoon of ground say a 1/8 tsp. of black pepper and cayenne and a couple of drops of Texas Pete hot sauce and stir and mix well.
Then put this on a microwave safe plate or saucer spread it out level over plate and put in microwave and then heat this mix on high for
about 45-60 seconds or till it just starts to bubble abit let it bubble for about 10 seconds. It then will be about like
tooth paste when removed and very hot.. It can also be done in a oven or a toaster oven what I used before microwaves where
around.
Then stir it again then let it cool should then look like a thicker mud almost like sheetrock mud and smell like pepper.
Then let it set and cool and put in a capped bottle. Then using a syringe from
An aquarium test kit remove the plunger fill syringe with the cooled mix with a spoon handle screwdriver and drop a dab in to each pest. No need to remove or clean or worry they will turn black swell up and melt in just a few minutes.
This is totally reef safe and used and tested for many years. Now if the mix is to thick to push through
Syringe like a caulk gun when it’s cooled, then add a few drops of R/O or distilled water to thin it a bit, But it has to have mud type concinnity to drop in to their mouths like real thick toothpaste. “TOTALLY REEF SAFE†and no Clean up needed and the excess if any will dissolve and add buffer to the water. Just let it lay there. Tangster stuff. Enjoy never eat it won't hurt you but taste like dung as crocodile Dundee would say
attached is a very good recepie for apistasia. I have used it and it works very well. cheap and easy to make...I keep some old pill bottles of it around in case I need it. just get you a medicine syringe to dose with so it squirts easy.
I take a ½ to 2/3 cup of pickling lime or kalkwasser mix the dry type. The pickling lime (buy it at kroger) does better and add a few spoons of R/O or distilled water and stir these to look a bit like a thick pancake batter almost and then stir in a tip of a tea spoon of ground say a 1/8 tsp. of black pepper and cayenne and a couple of drops of Texas Pete hot sauce and stir and mix well.
Then put this on a microwave safe plate or saucer spread it out level over plate and put in microwave and then heat this mix on high for
about 45-60 seconds or till it just starts to bubble abit let it bubble for about 10 seconds. It then will be about like
tooth paste when removed and very hot.. It can also be done in a oven or a toaster oven what I used before microwaves where
around.
Then stir it again then let it cool should then look like a thicker mud almost like sheetrock mud and smell like pepper.
Then let it set and cool and put in a capped bottle. Then using a syringe from
An aquarium test kit remove the plunger fill syringe with the cooled mix with a spoon handle screwdriver and drop a dab in to each pest. No need to remove or clean or worry they will turn black swell up and melt in just a few minutes.
This is totally reef safe and used and tested for many years. Now if the mix is to thick to push through
Syringe like a caulk gun when it’s cooled, then add a few drops of R/O or distilled water to thin it a bit, But it has to have mud type concinnity to drop in to their mouths like real thick toothpaste. “TOTALLY REEF SAFE†and no Clean up needed and the excess if any will dissolve and add buffer to the water. Just let it lay there. Tangster stuff. Enjoy never eat it won't hurt you but taste like dung as crocodile Dundee would say
SWaquariast
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I started to have a small bloom of aptasia and all I did was take a medicine squirter(there orange kind of like a syringe with out the needle) and just squirted it directly with purple up. It cleared it up in on dose.
Be careful though because purple up is a calcium supplement and can increase your calcium lvls very easy.
Be careful though because purple up is a calcium supplement and can increase your calcium lvls very easy.
DMBillies
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It sounds to me like you are just making them retract in for a day and then they come back out the next. I'd definitely try something other than the aiptasia-x. As you'll see by the answers to your posts, most people don't use it... which doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't work, but that is generally not a good sign for a product (unless it is so new that no one has had a chance to try it).
If it is actually killing them and they are coming back really fast then I'd say, in addition to trying something different, you should really take note of how much you feed. Aiptasia, like algae problems, are often caused by high nutrient loads in a tank. Since you only have one fish at the moment, you should be careful to feed only what that fish needs and can eat in the 10-15 seconds after you feed.
If it is actually killing them and they are coming back really fast then I'd say, in addition to trying something different, you should really take note of how much you feed. Aiptasia, like algae problems, are often caused by high nutrient loads in a tank. Since you only have one fish at the moment, you should be careful to feed only what that fish needs and can eat in the 10-15 seconds after you feed.
Turtle77
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Ok so I havent posted in this thread in a while because I thought I was getting stuff under control and I have gotten rid of most of the large aiptasia stalks but I think I am finally realizing whats going wrong. I think I kill one and the next day its right back.
I know your not suppose to just squirt the aptasia with whatever poison your are using, in my case Aiptasia-X, that your suppose to "FEED" it to them because otherwise they just shoot back in their little hole and close up and you just defeated the purpose. Well my problem is with the tool that came with the Aiptasia-X is NOT user friendly for me. I am trying to ease this thing as easy as possible and its either full out squirt or nothing at all. Now I dont have the shakes and I use to think I had a pretty good handle on my motor skills as well but good grief. I mean there is just NO slow and easy with this thing, the minute I get close enough to one and it wraps its tenticles around the needle I start trying to ease some out and it feels stuck so easy as I can I apply more pressure until it just squirts all over the place and aiptasia stalk hids and it was worthless. No wonder I have already gone through a bottle and half already, Here is the thing I am using that came with the stuff. Any suggestions or anyone got something else they use?
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I know your not suppose to just squirt the aptasia with whatever poison your are using, in my case Aiptasia-X, that your suppose to "FEED" it to them because otherwise they just shoot back in their little hole and close up and you just defeated the purpose. Well my problem is with the tool that came with the Aiptasia-X is NOT user friendly for me. I am trying to ease this thing as easy as possible and its either full out squirt or nothing at all. Now I dont have the shakes and I use to think I had a pretty good handle on my motor skills as well but good grief. I mean there is just NO slow and easy with this thing, the minute I get close enough to one and it wraps its tenticles around the needle I start trying to ease some out and it feels stuck so easy as I can I apply more pressure until it just squirts all over the place and aiptasia stalk hids and it was worthless. No wonder I have already gone through a bottle and half already, Here is the thing I am using that came with the stuff. Any suggestions or anyone got something else they use?
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11107081@N02/2598624521/" title="P6210048 by chernalp, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/2598624521_0116a506e7.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P6210048" /></a>
sandalscout
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You might try what I did (successfully). Get some flexible airline tubing that will fit over the syringe (just the plastic end, not the needle part), and get a 1-2' length of rigid airline that also fits into the flexline. Connect the rigid tubing to the syringe using the flexline as a coupler.
Suck some of the Aiptasia-X (I used pickling lime paste) into the length of rigid tubing, and then place the end of the tubing within .5" of the aiptasia. I would squirt out just a TINY little bit of paste and the aiptasia would actually open up some trying to figure out what it was. At that point I could COVER it in the paste, and it would close up with a huge glob in it's mouth, never to be seen again.
Hope that helps.
Suck some of the Aiptasia-X (I used pickling lime paste) into the length of rigid tubing, and then place the end of the tubing within .5" of the aiptasia. I would squirt out just a TINY little bit of paste and the aiptasia would actually open up some trying to figure out what it was. At that point I could COVER it in the paste, and it would close up with a huge glob in it's mouth, never to be seen again.
Hope that helps.
Turtle77
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well part of the problem is with the syrenge part, its sticks and causes me to have to squeeze it too hard to get it out and then it just makes too much come out. I have tried just pushing it back and forth without anything in it to try and get it to losen up a little but doesnt work.
sandalscout
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Oh, okay, I see, I thought it was the metallic tip causing issues..... go to walgreens and ask them for a syringe, they give them out for free in the pharmacy, I just told them I needed to give my dog some medicine and was looking for a syringe to buy, and they had a big box of them for babys/animals, etc.
mamagoose45
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Don't feel like a goober if you're having trouble with the syringe that comes with the kit - I can't use the one that comes with the Joe's Juice. Every single time I use it, I end up with the same results you are getting - a big glob of the treatment floating around the tank, with the fish chasing it thinking that it is food. We just got a different syringe as that something is simply the problem. The other issue that you might be having that we've encountered with the Joe's Juice is that it gets clumpy. I always draw up and squirt out a bunch a few times to make sure I don't have any nasty clumps in the syringe. Another good option is to draw some of your treatment up into the syringe and then a little bit of tank water to help with thinning. Obviously don't suck up a lot of water or you'll make it too thin and it won't work well for "sticking" to the little devils. Good luck with the battle...
Mikeyjer
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I would suggest Peppermint Shrimp too since they worked for me when I got bunch of rocks that was covered with aiptasia, majano, and tulip anemone. I feed the larger ones with joe's juice and the peppermints zap the rest, even went after the tulips when I was trying to keep a few. But when they ate them all, they vanished like the anemones did..... I did find two in my tank recently after getting some frags from someone, it came with it. I need to zap it soon before it spreads, I got one outta there cause it was attached to a piece of rock, got one more to zap. Anyone got some Joe's Juice for me to borrow? Since I only have one to zap.... 
Turtle77
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I got a peppermint shrimp but he never really thinned any of the aiptasia out. Then one day I was moving some rocks around for better circulation and a rock fell on him. I thought he was going to be ok but a day later I see his clear skeleton floating around the tank. So then at the meeting last weekend I picked up two more and its only been a few days and I could no longer find the little one. The big one is acting weird. Also still not thinning out of the small aiptasia yet. Another thing is when I get the shrimp at the LFS they are all red but after a few days in my tank thier tails start turning black, is this normal?
commonstranger
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Hmmmm Tutle get yor water tested and make sure everything is good to go there. Like someone said make sure your not feeding too much. Aslong as the one fish you have is not agressive towards the shrimp they should be fine. In my 29 I have some aiptasia aswell. I have used the joes juice and yes they come back and I just keep giving them some aslong as you keep it up it will wear them down. I have also bought a peppermint shirimp and didnt think he was going to get to work on them because he stays up next to my power head all day and gets him some sun. Laugh I watched him lastnight after I turned the lunar light on and he went to work. I wish you luck with this and hope it gets better.
mamagoose45
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I've never heard of anyone's shrimps turning colors in a tank. Sometimes they lose their red color during shipping and transport from a LFS - I assume it's associated with stress. They usually get their color back not long after you dump them in a home tank.
Make sure you drip any crustaceans longer than you feel is necessary and at a slow drip. Any swings in the water params for those critters can be the kiss of death.
And don't give up on the peps taking down some of the aiptasia - I bought a pep for my nano and didn't see him doing anything (or even see him for that matter) for a week or two and then all of a sudden he's out cruising around and snacking away.
Make sure you drip any crustaceans longer than you feel is necessary and at a slow drip. Any swings in the water params for those critters can be the kiss of death.
And don't give up on the peps taking down some of the aiptasia - I bought a pep for my nano and didn't see him doing anything (or even see him for that matter) for a week or two and then all of a sudden he's out cruising around and snacking away.
DawgDiggity
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My current foe: Aiptacula
My current foe: Aiptacula
This little aip has been around for many months stinging my sun coral. I realized from a picture yesterday that it has killed one polyp(if that is what you call them individually). Here she is:
Photo of existing polyps before aiptacula appeared:
Dr. Death's secret potion... (thanks to pickupmann):
Just a word, injecting straight purple up into the mouth's of aiptasia makes them spew their guts and by the morning they seem right as rain.
Hopefully 'the potion' will take them down...
ALSO, a tulip anenome as returned from the dead!
My current foe: Aiptacula
This little aip has been around for many months stinging my sun coral. I realized from a picture yesterday that it has killed one polyp(if that is what you call them individually). Here she is:
Photo of existing polyps before aiptacula appeared:
Dr. Death's secret potion... (thanks to pickupmann):
Just a word, injecting straight purple up into the mouth's of aiptasia makes them spew their guts and by the morning they seem right as rain.
Hopefully 'the potion' will take them down...
ALSO, a tulip anenome as returned from the dead!
Mikeyjer
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DawgDiggity,
All you need is some Joe's Juice or Kalk Wasser to feed the aiptasia or tulip anemones. It will kill them off!!!! I need to get some, it seems that the stuffs I got from the last meeting brought some to my tank. Time to zap them before they really multiply........
All you need is some Joe's Juice or Kalk Wasser to feed the aiptasia or tulip anemones. It will kill them off!!!! I need to get some, it seems that the stuffs I got from the last meeting brought some to my tank. Time to zap them before they really multiply........
