Aiptasia on a frag

[MohrReefs]

Hello,

I had a single aiptasia head on one of my frags that I hit with aiptasia killer (also took out two paly polyps with it). It seemingly died but a new clear head just popped up where the old one was. Should I just remove the frag at this point or is it too late and my tank has it now?

 

[GeoSquid]

I would remove the frag......To me, one coral is not worth an Aip outbreak. Others may have a different opinion on here though.

 

[Webslinger]

i would kill the aptasia out of the tank, scrub ,rinse and put back in

 

[GeoSquid]

i would kill the aptasia out of the tank, scrub ,rinse and put back in

I tried this with boiling water and it turned a couple of Aips into hundreds covering almost every rock in my 180 Gal. I got an Aip eating file fish that ate all the aips and it was great....once he ran out of Aips to eat, he had almost all my coral. I got rid of the fish and the Aips started coming back in full force. Since most of my coral was gone, I just drained the tank and let everything dry out for a couple months before starting it back up from scratch. I've had a couple Aips in tanks before where they stayed contained. I don't know what causes them to go nuts but it's bad when they do.

 

[bam123]

f aptasia forms more of substance that lasts a week an ensures they won't comeback. can kill frags though like the other stuff if it touches it.

 

[MohrReefs]

Okay, I know what I'll do now, thank you.

 

[MohrReefs]

Pulled the frag, thankfully 3 polyps of the paly spread to my rock, shrunk aptasia is on the frag confirmed and removed.

 

[Webslinger]

a bit overkill but whatever works for you...haha