Aptasia!!!ugh!!!!

[runningreefer]

So I put in a new frag and was admiring it and saw a small hitch hicker. How do I deal with this before it gets out of hand?

 

[ReefMadScientist]

So I put in a new frag and was admiring it and saw a small hitch hicker. How do I deal with this before it gets out of hand?

Aptasia X.

I tried burning them off once but it still did not die.

 

[bairdimusprime]

Boiling water

 

[Frattoniser]

I fed mine with some of my wife's cooking - was dead and gone in minutes!

Seriously though, I've read some on here take the rock out and carefully break off the section that the aptasia is on before returning it back to the tank, not tried it myself because I have a couple of peppermint that tend to take care of these. The other two don't seem interested!

 

[Defect]

I had some on a live rock I got and I just glued them and have never seen them since.

 

[J77]

Get rid of it as soon as u can they become a terrible problem if u don't keep on em,I've never really had luck with any type chem they all failed the only thing that work for me was peppermint shrimp but even that took awhile to get ones that would eat them because most of u know that is hit or miss too