Aptasia
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lickyricky
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Are these aptasia? Zoa frag wont open
Looks like aptasia to me
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Pull the rock out and squirt boiling water into the hole where it is. It will stop it from being able to spit out spawn. If you use a small syringe you can get it right down in the hole. If you can do it in a small bucket of tank water so the devil spawn is out, even better.
jd371
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The thing with injecting the Aptasia is that you have to get the whole thing or it will come back in numbers. I'm going through an outbreak now caused by using Aptasia-X. The ones on top of the rocks are easy to get to and smother the whole thing so they won't come back. The ones in the holes and cracks you're not getting the whole thing and they will grow back from any piece that's left over. I'm going with natural predators of the Aptasia and added some Berghia Nudibranch a month ago and hoping they get the job done. If by the end of July I don't see any improvement I'll try a Filefish next. Can't use Peppermint because of my Wrasse.
This is why it's hard to kill the Aptasia by injecting. Every time I would inject these two Aptasia
they would come back. Recently I moved some coral around and when lifting this rock I
noticed the Aptasia was anchored underneath and to the center of the rock (shown in red) and not on the
side as I thought. So when injecting Aptasia in the holes and cracks unless you can reach the whole animal with it you're not doing anything.
This is why it's hard to kill the Aptasia by injecting. Every time I would inject these two Aptasia
they would come back. Recently I moved some coral around and when lifting this rock I
noticed the Aptasia was anchored underneath and to the center of the rock (shown in red) and not on the
side as I thought. So when injecting Aptasia in the holes and cracks unless you can reach the whole animal with it you're not doing anything.
lickyricky
Red Sea Max E-170
The thing with injecting the Aptasia is that you have to get the whole thing or it will come back in numbers. I'm going through an outbreak now caused by using Aptasia-X. The ones on top of the rocks are easy to get to and smother the whole thing so they won't come back. The ones in the holes and cracks you're not getting the whole thing and they will grow back from any piece that's left over. I'm going with natural predators of the Aptasia and added some Berghia Nudibranch a month ago and hoping they get the job done. If by the end of July I don't see any improvement I'll try a Filefish next. Can't use Peppermint because of my Wrasse.
This is why it's hard to kill the Aptasia by injecting. Every time I would inject these two Aptasia
they would come back. Recently I moved some coral around and when lifting this rock I
noticed the Aptasia was anchored underneath and to the center of the rock (shown in red) and not on the
side as I thought. So when injecting Aptasia in the holes and cracks unless you can reach the whole animal with it you're not doing anything.
Just wait for them to get big enough that you can clearly see their mouth and follow the instructions! You have to approach it very slowly and cover the mouth before it pukes up its offspring
I treat about 2 a month and have never had a serious outbreak (knock on wood). Treat as many as you can all at once
