Apastasia question

[4FordFamily]

I only had like three heads appear over the life of my current tank early on. Squirted them with boiling water in the syringe and haven't seen them since!

Consider yourself quite lucky!

 

[Donovan Joannes]

I tried boiling water as well. It will shriveled and melt, leaving its foot intact. It will regrow and maybe pop up another one or two if the leftover survived the heat.

 

[Water Dog]

Consider yourself quite lucky!

I do indeed. I forgot to add... I smothered the spot where I boiled away the aiptasia with epoxy gel to ensure they wouldn't come back.

 

[Brew12]

Well, the rock is up in the attic where it will do no harm. It remains to be seen if peppermint shrimp are in my future!

 

[Ryanbrs Verified Sponsor]

I boil some RO/DI water, suck it up with a 10 ml syringe, then blast the heck out of it with the boing water. Keep a net handy to scoop up the cooked remnants that float away.

Solid idea, I'm going to have to try this sometime.

 

[Water Dog]

Solid idea, I'm going to have to try this sometime.

Gotta work pretty quickly though. That syringe will cool down if you don't work fast enough once submerged.

 

[Transporter]

I had a few aiptasia pop up in my 75 once. Got a couple pepermint shrimp and never seen them again. One word of advice though...Make sure you get ACTUAL pepermint shrimp. The other ones that look like them will not work.