Aiptasia?

[Frtdrmrose7]

Just picked up a nice 6 head hammer and 4 head frogspawn. While I’m acclimating then I noticed a few of these on the stalks. They are small and I think might be aiptasia. Can I touch these with. h202 to kill them?

 

[reefwiser]

Best way to totally kill them is to cover them in reef Glue.

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Best way to totally kill them is to cover them in reef Glue.

You mean superglue?

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Ok I found another one and I don’t think this is safe to glue, ideas?

 

[reefwiser]

Still good to do.

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Still good to do.

I used a pair of tweezers and scraped them off completely and kept rinsing with salt water. I’m just going to keep an eye on those spots now.

 

[reefwiser]

Even if a spec of flesh is left they will return. Aiptasia are like the cockroach of the sea. If we could cross corals with Aiptasia nothing would ever die.

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Even if a spec of flesh is left they will return. Aiptasia are like the cockroach of the sea. If we could cross corals with Aiptasia nothing would ever die.

Yes I know I’ve dealt with them before. I ended up covering each spot I scraped them off with coral glue.