tricks on removing Aipstasia

[sharky71]

What is the easiest and safest way to removal Aipstasia from the aquarium? Someone told me injecting lemon juice but I'm a little hesitant.

 

[sharky71]

opps.. i meant Aiptasia

 

[TrojanScott]

Boiling water in a sryinge has done the trick for me.

 

[kraze3]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=514384

try that

 

[sharky71]

has anyone used hermit crabs?

 

[Craig Lambert]

I murdered my first aptasia yesterday. 3 years in the hobby and I never had one until I setup a new tank 2 months ago. I had been unsure for weeks whether it was an aptasia or not because it was so small. Well, he grew enough over the past two weeks that I could tell it was an aptasia. I injected him with boiling water and that did the trick. I then pulled the rock and put kalk paste on the remaining small pieces, and in the little hole where he was attached. (I guess you could say I killed him twice).

 

[sharky71]

did you take the piece of rock out of the tank before injecting it with boiling water?

 

[Craig Lambert]

No. If you do, I believe he will retract into the rock.

 

[brifirst]

I take a steak knife heat it over the stove, then touch it up to the damm Aptasia. Of course that is if you can take it out of the tank.
It is really cool to hear the SOB sizzel. No sign of it again.

 

[dominick33]

I have successfully used Joe's Juice and peppermint shrimp and within 3-4 weeks all the little critters were gone from the tank. As a final safe guard I purchased a copperband butterfly that I was certain was eating at the LFS and he has helped the control also.

 

[milhouse74]

I had a huge infestation, I got one on a Zoo rock I got from someone, and then did nothing about it. By the time I took care of it I had maybe 15-20 or so. 3 Pepermint Shrimp did the trick, gone in a week or so. Now if I ever put anything in the tank that has them again, I am ahead of the game because I have those peppermints.

David

 

[sharky71]

Do pepermint shrimp pick on or eat any other corals or just the aiptasia?

 

[milhouse74]

I have had them pick at nothing else, and I have LPS SPS Softie etc. lots of polyps too like Zoos.

 

[OnTheReef]

Peppermint shrimp of the species Lysmata wurdemanni will eat Aptasia. They are larger and more vividly striped than their smaller, more transparent and dark-tailed cousins which do not typically eat Aptasia.

 

[Sk8r]

Peppermints will eat aiptasia, yellow polpys (if any), and fishfood.

 

[dodgersfan25]

my peppermints killed over a dozen monsterous aptasia on the first day that i got them! they work fast! and they havent bothered any of my other corals yet

 

[dicjones]

go with the peppermint...worked perfectly for me.

 

[milhouse74]

I want to add that I have yellow polyps in both the tanks I have peppermints in, and have noticed no reduction in my yellow polyps.

David

 

[poppin_fresh]

My Peppermints ate all the little feather dusters in my tank...along with the Aiptaisa.

 

[borderreef]

Years ago I had two peppermint shirmp gang up on a bta and tear it apart overnight. Their no longer with us.