Aptasia Dip?

[AmatuerAuer]

I have a small piece of live rock with a leather perched on top. 4" diameter at the base, 4" tall but narrow.

The base has a lot of aptasia, it would be easy to dip just the base and leave the coral exposed.

The question is what could Indip the piece of live rock in, that would kill the aptasia, but still go back in the DT after a quick dunk in clean RO/DI?

 

[bios]

100 centigrade boiled Ro water

 

[ahiggins]

if you do the boiled RO water...be very careful. rinse very well. If you kill off the aiptasia, odds are youll have die off on that part of rock. You dont want to re-cycle your tank.

 

[TheEngineer]

I wouldn't boil them. They have stinging cells just like zoas do and toxins. You probably don't want to breath that in.

How many are we talking about? You could just use kalk paste.

 

[ahiggins]

Ever thought about pep shrimp? I put 3 in my 25. They all died after they got rid of the 5 or so aiptasia I had

 

[bios]

I wouldn't boil them. They have stinging cells just like zoas do and toxins. You probably don't want to breath that in.

How many are we talking about? You could just use kalk paste.

Toxins in nematocisti are completely inactivated by water over 50 centigrades

 

[AmatuerAuer]

Hard to see but I count 8-9 individuals.

 

[TheEngineer]

Toxins in nematocisti are completely inactivated by water over 50 centigrades

I think this family would beg to differ with you. White the nematocyst itself maybe is not longer active, the toxin sure is and you are turning it into an aerosol.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blo...-poisoning-almost-killed-myself-wife-and-dogs

 

[TheEngineer]

Hard to see but I count 8-9 individuals.

I'd just hit them with kalk paste. You can be done with them in 10 minutes.

 

[AmatuerAuer]

I use the BRS 2 part..anything I can make with that?

 

[TheEngineer]

I use the BRS 2 part..anything I can make with that?

I have no idea! Haha. @Randy Holmes-Farley made that recipe for them, maybe he can comment on it.

 

[bios]

So probably 1 bilions of china people should be died as they boiled and eat jelly fish and anemone Every day

 

[TheEngineer]

Are you thinking squid? I didn't know people ate either anemones or jelly fish.

 

[Dorkymk3]

Peppermint shrimps the way to go. Cleared up my display tank in 1 week. Just don't feed your fish or corals for a few days.

 

[AmatuerAuer]

Peppermint shrimp may eat coral. No worth the risk