Ugh..... aiptasia is back

[TangingOut]

So for the last 6-8 months I was aiptasia free except for 1 big one that I think my peppermint shrimps were either afraid of or was keeping alive to farm baby aiptasia to eat.

This was terminator aiptasia that I hit on multiple occasions with boiling water, boiling lime juice, but always came back looking unaffected a few days later. I finally got it with aiptasiaX, but did this cause it to release spores?

It's been about a month with zero aiptasia and I was getting sick of fighting off shrimps when feeding corals so I sumped both of them a week ago. Well today, I see in a 1' radius of where terminator was there's 15-20 baby aiptasia. Looks like I'll have to go shrimp fishing in my sump.

Ok, rant over. Ugh.

 

[jml1149]

I've used Joe's Juice without having additional pop up FWIW.

 

[BeanMachine]

Have you tried Berghia Nudibranchs?

 

[TangingOut]

I've looked into nudis in the past, but they're somewhat expensive. This time I'll just leave the peppermint shrimps in the display and just deal with the fact that they'll steal food from corals.

 

[James77]

I have always done a kalk slurry(wear safety glasses with taht caustic crap) shot right into them with a large opening syringe so they retract. Never had them establish themselves with doing that when there are a half dozen or so at a time

 

[BeanMachine]

I've looked into nudis in the past, but they're somewhat expensive. This time I'll just leave the peppermint shrimps in the display and just deal with the fact that they'll steal food from corals.

Just know that peppermints are entirely reef safe. I've had some eat the eyes of chalices, some polyps, and some expensive rock anemones.

 

[davocean]

It's pretty common after being hit w/ most of the things used to wipe them out like joes juice or aptasia x that they go away and then come back in numbers.
I like to hit apt w apatasia x and then it kind of melts them to make it easier for whatever you have to eat them, peps, CBB's, matted file fish.
If your peps were in sump, and not being fed, and had the taste for aptasia already, I'd dump em in at night and I bet those baby apts would be gone by morning.

 

[BeanMachine]

I meant to say peppermints arent entirely reef safe. Not are. Sorry about that. But they work.