SoCalSURFrider
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So if I got boiling water and sucked it in a turkey baster and then shot it at the aptasia, would it die off? I heard it worked....
Will this work for aptasia?
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SoCalSURFrider
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Someone should know if this works...
SoCalSURFrider
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Mine is metal... It shouldnt melt
reefergeorge
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I've used a plastic dollar store one. So it won't melt it, but it was very unsuccessful.
Turkey baster - plastic is fine - turkey bakes at 350 degF... turkey drippins be that temp too. Boiling water is 212 degF so your fine.
Glass - bad glass would not handle the temp differential from inside to outside well unless it was pyrex or the like.
Metal... didn't think metal would be adviseable for salt tank.
Glass - bad glass would not handle the temp differential from inside to outside well unless it was pyrex or the like.
Metal... didn't think metal would be adviseable for salt tank.
Playa-1
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The solution that I use is to get yourself some Kalk powder from walmart( MRS Wages Pickling lime). It's like $2.50 for a big jar of it. Mix a couple teaspoons into a cup of water and mix it up. Use a syringe and inject them down the mouth or in the stalk and they are done. They will be totally gone in a couple hours.
I've tried the boiling water method before and it worked for me. The aiptasia was on the end of a frogspawn skeleton. You have to be careful though. It also killed the GHA and coraligne(SP?) algea on that end. Lucky I did not kill the frogspawn to. But the Aiptasia is gone. Now I have another though, this one came in to a Zoo covered rock. Not sure how I'm gonna get this one gone, it is right next to the zoos. I dont want to kill any of the zoos.
Stirfry001
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If you only have a couple that you can get to, then boiling water works. If there are a lot then you are better off getting some pep. shrimp or a kleins butterfly. My butterfly started eating my zoo's after all the aiptasia was gone. If you use the kalk powder, make sure to make it thin enough to shoot out of a syringe but thick enough to stick to where you want it.
SoCalSURFrider
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Ya I have 4 peppermints and they dont do ****... They just hind all day and night... Lazy *** pieces of ****....
sentencedme
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Joe's juice worked 4 me in a 120 gallon......about 60 mojano and apitasia.....mix....
killed the communists..........4 months free now
try pepps....shrimp
copperband butterfly
kalk paste
joe's juice....my favorite remedy
killed the communists..........4 months free now
try pepps....shrimp
copperband butterfly
kalk paste
joe's juice....my favorite remedy
sentencedme
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So Cal.....it's a 50/50 shot with pepps......
try starving those little b****s lol
try starving those little b****s lol
tspors
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I have injected (w/syringe) .5ml draino (sodium hydroxied) excellent results and safe. Do some web surfing on it.
OK, here is my sure fire way, 100% success rate, never to return again method.
Use a saturated solution of Sodium Hydroxide (Drain Away, Draino, whatever you like to call it) and water. Using a syringe, squirt about 0.5 mL into the mouth of each aiptasia. This will kill even the stubborn foot tissue.
I initially used kalk paste like pies, by found that the success rate wasn't that great. Sodium Hydroxide is much more soluble than Calcium Hydroxide, and is more alkaline, completely nuking the aiptasia.
Again don't dose too much at one time. It is not harmful to your reef, unless you directly squirt it onto corals. Just a warning that Sodium Hydroxide will cause sever chemical burns if handled, you can tell if you have it on your hands 'cause they will feel "soapy" and slippery. If you feel your hands becoming slippery, wash with a LOT of cold water. Preferably wear gloves when handling.
As dangerous as the chemical sounds, it is really quite safe for your reef.
It's great to see some different people on this board too, from what I hear, the hobby is really starting to grow.
Draino is surprisingly pure sodium hydroxide, and is really no more dangerous to your tank than calcium hydroxide (kalk). Any tank with a reasonable alkalinity (greater than 2.6) should have no problems adding it. The hydroxide ion reacts relativly quickly with dissolved carbon dioxide producing, there are also other mechanisms for the neutralisation of the free hydroxide. Which reaction is most significant is determined by the pH.
2(OH)- + 2CO2 ---> H20 + 2(CO3)2-
The only difference between this and the kalk method is the spectator ion (Ca2+ as opposed to Na+).
Kalk will do the same thing to your hand as sodium hydroxide, at a much much slower rate.
If anything this method is easier on the fish, I had problems with fish eating, or trying to eat the white kalk paste. I for one wouldn't like a mouth full of kalk. The sodium hydroxide method is much safer in that it is completely soluble, such that any solution which doesn't make it into the aiptasia, is quikly netralised by surrounding water by the above reaction, and no solid remains to be eaten by fish.
OK, here is my sure fire way, 100% success rate, never to return again method.
Use a saturated solution of Sodium Hydroxide (Drain Away, Draino, whatever you like to call it) and water. Using a syringe, squirt about 0.5 mL into the mouth of each aiptasia. This will kill even the stubborn foot tissue.
I initially used kalk paste like pies, by found that the success rate wasn't that great. Sodium Hydroxide is much more soluble than Calcium Hydroxide, and is more alkaline, completely nuking the aiptasia.
Again don't dose too much at one time. It is not harmful to your reef, unless you directly squirt it onto corals. Just a warning that Sodium Hydroxide will cause sever chemical burns if handled, you can tell if you have it on your hands 'cause they will feel "soapy" and slippery. If you feel your hands becoming slippery, wash with a LOT of cold water. Preferably wear gloves when handling.
As dangerous as the chemical sounds, it is really quite safe for your reef.
It's great to see some different people on this board too, from what I hear, the hobby is really starting to grow.
Draino is surprisingly pure sodium hydroxide, and is really no more dangerous to your tank than calcium hydroxide (kalk). Any tank with a reasonable alkalinity (greater than 2.6) should have no problems adding it. The hydroxide ion reacts relativly quickly with dissolved carbon dioxide producing, there are also other mechanisms for the neutralisation of the free hydroxide. Which reaction is most significant is determined by the pH.
2(OH)- + 2CO2 ---> H20 + 2(CO3)2-
The only difference between this and the kalk method is the spectator ion (Ca2+ as opposed to Na+).
Kalk will do the same thing to your hand as sodium hydroxide, at a much much slower rate.
If anything this method is easier on the fish, I had problems with fish eating, or trying to eat the white kalk paste. I for one wouldn't like a mouth full of kalk. The sodium hydroxide method is much safer in that it is completely soluble, such that any solution which doesn't make it into the aiptasia, is quikly netralised by surrounding water by the above reaction, and no solid remains to be eaten by fish.
sufunk
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I've tried everything known to man and it did nothing except actually seem to make the aiptasia spread even more. I finally found something that worked!
My wife scored an actual syringe from our veterinarian for me. I mixed up some kalk mix and used the syringe on my aiptasia actually punturing the aip and injecting the Kalk into the aiptasia. This actually killed my aiptasia rather than just spreading it even more like whenever i used a baster.
My wife scored an actual syringe from our veterinarian for me. I mixed up some kalk mix and used the syringe on my aiptasia actually punturing the aip and injecting the Kalk into the aiptasia. This actually killed my aiptasia rather than just spreading it even more like whenever i used a baster.
