what the @@@@ is on my rocks?

[beachsidejuj]

I hope you can help me...this tank has been going for about 2 months....had some rock in cold saltwater that I brought back to life with a couple seeder rocks...and new LS....I want to know what these things are on my rocks....click on the link to see the pics or My Gallery....Thank you for all of your help in advance!

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_040.jpg
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_037.jpg
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_034.jpg
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_028.jpg
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_027.jpg
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_025.jpg:rollface: :rollface:

 

[Capt_Cully]

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_028.jpg

On left, fan worm, harmless, on right, aiptaisia anemone....PITA

 

[VacavilleFC3S]

aiptasia, get rid of them before a couple becomes a hundred

 

[kdc527]

one kinda looks like Yellow polyp i have some they grow pretty quick

 

[beachsidejuj]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13291165#post13291165 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Capt_Cully
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/144925Picture_028.jpg

On left, fan worm, harmless, on right, aiptaisia anemone....PITA

What is PITA???

 

[beachsidejuj]

and how do I get rid of the bad bad aiptaisia????

 

[beachsidejuj]

so I can keep the light purple ones and ditch the brown ones?

 

[ChrisKirkland]

I use aptasia X which is mad by red sea. It works great for me and costs like 10 dollars. I would use that. There is a neat video on red sea website showing how this stuff works.

 

[ChrisKirkland]

http://www.redseafish.com/show_movie.asp?product=296&type=high

Here is the link to the video.

 

[beachsidejuj]

Thank Chris! I think I am going to try a pepermint shrimp though....

 

[otrlynn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13291211#post13291211 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beachsidejuj
What is PITA???

Pain in the "posterior"

 

[beachsidejuj]

LOL thanks.....ok sooooooooo when my pep shrinp eats all the bad stuff...what do I feed it?

 

[crvz]

the peps are scavengers, they'll eat left over food and other wastes in the tank, I don't feed mine anything specific.

 

[beachsidejuj]

Thank alot!!!!

 

[woodiecrafts]

I use lemon juice and inject it with a diabetic syringe into the stem of the aptasia. It works for me in a matter of minutes and if you only do two or three at a time I don't alter the ph balance whatsoever.

 

[rudyr03]

i had some in my tank (aptasia) i boiled some water and injected them with a syringe worked like a charm ..make sure u do it quick becuase if they feel something thats not food they can hide in the rock pretty good those things are quick

 

[beachsidejuj]

ok...where will I get syringes????

 

[rudyr03]

u can also put the boiling water in a turkey baster and blast it before it hides then watch the hole it goes in and blast it again

 

[LCDRDATA]

I think I agree with kdc597 - the pictures (esp. 28/25) look more like Yellow Polyps to me. We've had both in our tank - I just zapped a number of aiptasia with the Aiptasia X mentioned above, in fact several of them were stinging our yellow polyps. Aiptasia can extend the body up out of the rock (like the right-hand guy in pictures 40/27), but I only saw one specimen in our tank do that, and even that one only at night. If they're stretched out like that all the time I think they're yellow polyps, but if that's the exception rather than the rule and the crown generally sits right on or just above the rock, then they're probably aiptasia.

 

[beachsidejuj]

you know I have never seen the brown ones go back into the rock...they don't do anything but sit there....and grow...the light purple one does retract into is "tube"....so maybe they arent aiptasia.....