This is an aiptasia correct?

[Scottshopinc]

Found this on my rock this morning after work, this is my first time seeing such. I am going to assume he came in on a few corals i pick up over the weekend. I will be doing a water change later today, so would that be a good time to try the boiling water in a syringe technique to try and kill it? Spent the last hour checking my rock work to make sure there were no others tis is the only one i have found.

 

[juniorrocketdad]

Looks like aptasia to me

 

[Scottshopinc]

Okay, I will move the coral and blast it with the hot water later today.

 

[Capt.Nemo]

I don't see a pic, but a peppermint shrimp would also do an excellent job at the maintenance of Aptasia. I had some and have been worry free since getting mine

 

[username in use]

Okay, I will move the coral and blast it with the hot water later today.

If that doesn't work burn the house down. Do it in a way that it is a covered by insurance though.

 

[Scottshopinc]

Well, it ended up being attached to the bottom of the frag, so I just cut the affected area away.

 

[fishgate]

Keep a really close eye out for more. There is never only one. Now that you have been exposed to them, they will pretty much always be there.

 

[Scottshopinc]

Will do, seems more like a reason to pick up some peppermint shrimp I had been thinking about to add some color to my tank.

 

[wicz101]

I don't see a pic, but a peppermint shrimp would also do an excellent job at the maintenance of Aptasia. I had some and have been worry free since getting mine

+1, my peppermint shrimp has been a great insurance policy in my DT for me against aptasia. I have not seen one in 6 months, but I have them in my liverock tank in my fish room, which is connected to the DT.

 

[CStrickland]

Ive had a few pop up on frag plugs like that and killed them before they spread using kalk paste. I haven't seen any in a year. No reason the let them take over the tank if you can keep them out. Continue monitoring those areas for a while, aiptasia can spread when you injure them. Like if you cut away most of it but leave a little behind, it'll grow two from the stump. That's why a lot of techniques have you kill it in place with acid and stuff.

 

[Jeff4777]

Yep aiptasia there. Keep an eye out for it spreading

 

[Nate1984]

+1 Aipstasia. I swear by these and they have always arrived alive. I have used them several times. I wait until I see the Apistasia start popping up order a few and I am in the clear.

http://saltyunderground.com/category/berghia-nudibranch

 

[Scottshopinc]

Yeah, I just cook a chunk of the plug around it away.