aptasia question

[mrjoe]

sooo... I have a few aptasia polyps in-between a small zoa colony.. The issue is they are to tightly in there for me to do anything at this point.. are there any good dips I can use to eradicate them??? I don't want to throw out the small colony but will if need be.. I ordered some syringes and will try to hit them with lemon juice, but will probably also hit some of the zoa's... was hoping there was some type of dip.. Thoughts??

 

[Lavey29]

I had the same I just used Aptasia X and killed them off.

 

[Pkunk35]

No dip for aiptasia,
Kalkwasser injected multiple times into their body will usually kill them but the kalk is caustic so you may hurt the surrounding zoas so I would use a actual syringe for this (reefbuilders did a vid on this)

F-aiptasia also works but you will def hurt the surrounding zoas with it. I recommend covering with crazy glue and epoxy afterwards to keep the medication trapped on the aiptasia body, it will def kill it then.

Personally instead for this particular case I would take bone cutters and razor blade and crack the colony and cut it until I could get some tweezers on the aiptasia and remove the whole body. Sometimes can be very challenging but zoas can usually take it this kind of treatment. Also give you a chance to break the colony up and clean up the “inside” or btwn polyps.
keep reefin dude

 

[edd59]

hyperdermic with vinegar right in the mouth. i do it, the surrounding zoas sometimes close up for a short time.
you dont need much.