Garth Schafluetzel
75 gal mixed tank in work
ok so im starting to have allot show up and i was wondering what evryone here does to remove them also ive been told the injecting them with freshwater is the only real way to get rid of them
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Bio-nut
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Theoretically you can do anything to change their nature biochemistry. Injecting them with fresh water might work if you can get them before they suck up ( changes the osmotic pressure causing them to bloat do to greater salt concentration on the outside). You can also mix some concentrate kalk and get them that way too but has the same issues (changes their pH and deteriorates their cells) . Last option is to throw in a copper band and pray that it will eat them. I would try the Kalk first!
good luck, I hate those little buggers.
good luck, I hate those little buggers.
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Garth Schafluetzel
75 gal mixed tank in work
what are the steps in the kalk method and what brand and such
I used lemon juice from concentrate and a syringe to get rid of mine. Inject them with 0.5ml of lemon juice and it's bye bye aptasia. If you have an over abundance, do them in small sections over the course of a few days so you don't throw off the levels.
Reef Pets
Bioprospector
I use Aptasia Control made by BlueLife, its reef safe. You do not have to inject them which makes it easy. You just use a syringe with no needle and hold it over them, drop a little amount of them and they eat it. They are dead within about 5 minutes. I had an aptasia outbreak a couple of months ago. After getting what I could with Aptasia Control I put 5 Peppermint Shrimp into that tank and within a week they were all gone and have not seen any since.
AquaWorldPSC
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I would definitely recommend Red Sea's Aiptasia-X. That is the best most effective stuff i have ever seen and used. It's like a paste that you inject on top of the Aiptasia, again on top not in the Aiptasia.
I use kalkwasser powder, mix it with water to make a thick paste, and squirt a blob on top of the aiptasia with a syringe. Turn the flow off before doing so. It's been the best way for me to kill those hateful things and the blob either dissolves away over time or gets covered with coralline. If you can remove the rock, lift it up out of the water and squirt the paste on the apitasia, then keep it out of the water for a couple of minutes. That way less of the past gets dissolved into the water. If you have a lot of them, do a few at at time so you don't alter your water chemistry, as Laskopyre suggested.
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Garth Schafluetzel
75 gal mixed tank in work
ive always herd different things about the peppermint shrimp so they are reefsafe? and how are they with other inverts
Pitcom
Not Reef Safe
They are fine, def. safe. They actually hide most of the time while the lights are on, usually in or under rocks. I've never heard of one messing with an invert.
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Garth Schafluetzel
75 gal mixed tank in work
ok thats just always something i worry about and im just going through things and the only problem right now is they arnt in the main dt there in the predetor tank so shrimp in there is not going to happen lol but will invest in a few for the main tank incase they make there way there how many do you think i could put in my 125 i also have a 55gal sump and a 75gal predetor tank running on the same system
joe's juice works for aiptasia and mojano. got a so called good deal on live rock that had a few mojano anemones scrubbed off the visible ones. Weeks later outbreak 100's everywhere. little time consuming but done the job.
I use peppermint shrimps also. But you have to make sure you get the ones that eat aiptasia or they won't do anything. No aiptasia for me.
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Garth Schafluetzel
75 gal mixed tank in work
i realy like the lemon juice idea do to the fact i have a seringe but no needle i could suck the aptisia into and then quikly blow it full of lemon juice. ive also seen someone suck the aptatia into the syring and pull it of the rock would this work as well
i tried the kalk and lemon juice both before. I even tried berghia's the best has been the aiptasia eating peppermint shrimps.
Lytehouse
just havin' fun
Peppermint shrimp are ok if you don't feed your tank much. If their not hungry, they won't eat aiptasia.
heard good stuff about the red sea product from several people, but haven't used it.
the old stand by is joe's juice, but you have to use it correctly or it just spreads them.
heard good stuff about the red sea product from several people, but haven't used it.
the old stand by is joe's juice, but you have to use it correctly or it just spreads them.
I heard aiptasia x works pretty good.
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Garth Schafluetzel
75 gal mixed tank in work
so no one had any luck with sucking them into a seringe and pulling them off the rock
AquaWorldPSC
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Ahh if you leave just a tiny bit it will come back trust me on this one use Red Sea Aiptasia-X.
