Aiptaisa- Glass anemone moved

lapin · Mar 31, 2020

I have 5 rather large aiptaisa.
Because people will ask and so on .....The usual attempts to kill them off without using a fish have not worked. It has gone from 2 to 5 in 2 years. Each chemical attempt resulting in a new one popping up somewhere in the tank and not killing the old one. The peppermints I think eat any small ones so its not a huge problem. I cannot remove 50 lb rocks to destroy them. Next attempt will be with a fish with hankerin for them.
Now for the weird thing. Yesterday one of them moved about 1" from where it was. It climbed out of a hole and now is more in the light. In all the threads I have read nobody has mentioned one moving.
Anyone have this happen?

Wolf89 · Mar 31, 2020

Anemones gonna be anemones

lapin · Mar 31, 2020

Wolf89 said:
Anemones gonna be anemones

Have you had an aiptasia move?

User1 · Mar 31, 2020

So...I believe I have seen them move and/or change locations due to flow. Based on the size I'm surprised you do not have more. I'm not a fan of peppermint shrimp but as you said when I've had them they only seem to eat the spores to smaller sizes. Medium to large the only fish I've had successfully eat them are Copperband Butterflyfish and Matted filefish. In fact, I have a Matted filefish now and he / she nukes everything regardless of size. Well, he also eats zoas, Duncans, and now Elegance corals.

Depending on the location and rock type I would be willing to try a kalk paste injection or just cover it with epoxy that you would mount a frag plug or rock. Use something to irritate it a bit to shrink up then use epoxy to cover it completely.

But to your original question I've seen them move similar to mushrooms and my RBTA's.