Aiptasia Anemones

[JPUA]

What is the best way to kill or control these guys? I have bought a few peppermint shrimp but I am considering removing them because I have read where they eat corals. I have also used Apstasia X and the anonomes keep coming back!

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Some people have had success with berghia nudibranches. The downfall with these guys is that they only eat aptasia and once the food source is gone they have nothing to eat.

 

[RalphsReef]

I like to smear them with kalk paste. It is easy to do. You just have to make sure you don't get it on other corals, or it can damage them.

 

[HWDylan]

I've used Aiptasia X with pretty good success. If there are a ton of them though it might not be reasonable to treat individuals like that.

Peppermint Shrimp maybe?

 

[oceangirl2009]

+1 Kalk paste

 

[Zack]

+2 on Kalk paste,. I fill a pipette with it and squirt away, good times- my frag tank is infested

 

[Steelerfan747]

I used AiptasiaX and then saw about 6 more that I had missed. I went out and bout 4 peppermints and do to work hours, I checked back 2 days later and they were gone. I have since not seen anymore

 

[Domer]

I have a filefish that takes care of them

 

[Cruezn]

Aptasia X worked perfectly for me. Also used it to eliminate some mushrooms that were reproducing and taking over an area.

 

[ReefPops]

I've use aptasia x and have had good results. I try to do it out of the tank (in a bucket) if possible. I have used it in the tank as well and have never seen many come back. I have heard that when you kill them they send out some type of reproductive something or other so I just suck water out from the immediate area. I haven't had anything to prove that though since I haven't seen proof in my own tank.

 

[gobeach]

Apstasia X, I had to do 1x week when they were bad. I'm also managing them with the Breghia Nudibranches, I have 2 and can see that they're keeping the population more manageable. They reach where I cannot.

 

[jlinzmaier]

I have the exact opposite problem than you do

I culture berghia and I never have enough aiptasia. I have 3 large tanks set up just for aiptasia culture. The fastest way I can get aiptasia to reproduce is by routinely using kalk paste and Aiptasia X on several aiptasia once every couple months. Sometimes it kills the nems I inject, but it never fails to produce tiny aiptaisa about two weeks after the treatment. The injectable solution (kalk paste, joes juice, aiptasia X, et...) will, at the very least, stress the aiptasia enough to get them to the "species survival" response. When aiptasia are stressed they release gametes which then generates tiny aiptasia a few weeks later. If the aiptasia feels like it's dying or might die then it releases gametes to try to "save the species" in a sense.

Berghia continually hunt down every last aiptasia regardless of their size or location in your system, but as already stated, the berghia will die once the aiptasia are gone. The good side to that is that if they are starving they hunt down every last aiptasia available. I've had berghia eat aiptasia right off the outlet of a Tunze wavebox. There's no place aiptasia can hide

Jeremy

 

[JPUA]

Aptasia X worked perfectly for me. Also used it to eliminate some mushrooms that were reproducing and taking over an area.

Would the medication do the same to some unwanted Palys you think?

 

[JPUA]

Nice, where did you get yours from?

 

[jlinzmaier]

Would the medication do the same to some unwanted Palys you think?

You should be careful with using injectables to kill palys and other soft corals. Soft corals use allelopathy as an advantage to stake their turf and keep enough room between themselves and other corals. When you start injecting soft corals they can release alells which can be toxic in your tank.

Jeremy

 

[Dragonreef202]

I have taken the rocks out the tank if possible and put some flame to it an let it sit in the outdoors for a day or two. I'm not too fond of killing them in the tank. Good luck with them.