Matthew Cautero
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So i saw a few things of Aiptasia today in my tank. What are some easy ways to get rid of this problem
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Peppermint shrimp will consume them.
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I like aptasia-x.
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There a pain in my butt! I got a big thing of aiptasia X and 20" syringe and attack them every few weeks. However, its difficult to get the ones facing sideway and when i try they just come back stronger. My melanurus wrasse would probably eat any peppermint shrimp i would add which would be expensive so I am planning on adding a copperband. They are fincky eaters but with my abundance of fan worms and aiptasia hoping they will be a long term solution.
Peppermint shrimp _might_ consume them.
My pepps ate the little ones I had when I first cranked up the tank, but I also had some _big_ ones in my sump. Slathered them with Aiptasia-X during a water change, when current was zero. They got bigger, but more diaphanous. Turkey-Basted them with scalding water during another water change. I think I heard them laugh. Now, there seem to be dozens of tiny ones _everywhere_ in the display, and the peppermints just wait for the manna to fall from Heaven (or for me to feed the tank...).
I've also had peppermints go to town on Ultra rock-flower 'nems. Never the "kinda nice" ones, only the ones with at least three distinct colors.
~Bruce
My pepps ate the little ones I had when I first cranked up the tank, but I also had some _big_ ones in my sump. Slathered them with Aiptasia-X during a water change, when current was zero. They got bigger, but more diaphanous. Turkey-Basted them with scalding water during another water change. I think I heard them laugh. Now, there seem to be dozens of tiny ones _everywhere_ in the display, and the peppermints just wait for the manna to fall from Heaven (or for me to feed the tank...).
I've also had peppermints go to town on Ultra rock-flower 'nems. Never the "kinda nice" ones, only the ones with at least three distinct colors.
~Bruce
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Matthew Cautero
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update yesterday i bought aiptasia x and it worked like magic
I took my live rock that had the aiptasia on it out (i took the corals off) then I put the whole thing in a bucket of tap water and dumped an entire bottle of hydrogen peroxide. I then changed the water out and rinsed the rock several times and scrubbed the rock with a scratch pad. Then rinsed the rock again let dry then put it back in the tank. Don't do this on all your rock at once, bacteria that call the rock home is your friend.
