Hitch hiker...maybe?

dnyceli · Mar 15, 2016

You sound pretty confident. Lol. So I will trust you. Thanks for such a quick reply.

Naiad · Mar 15, 2016

I have been searching for the culprit behind the loss of fish in my system as well lol. These guys were vetted early

KatSea · Mar 15, 2016

Thanks everyone for the ideas of how to deal with it. Ive been very sick since I posted it and sadly havent been able to do anything but when I check it this morning it was gone. So at first I thought itbwas because my lights had been off all night so I turned them on waited a while and nothing. I dont see it on anything else in the tank but Ill keep a look out. Maybe its just hiding cause it knows its final days are coming.

bsr2430 · Mar 15, 2016

Joes juice will also work. I've actually had those nasty anemones at one time. It sucked! They sting everything, if you kill it, make sure it didn't split, they will multiply faster then any coral on the market, even faster then the Xenia's. Take the rock out before its to late and you start losing money with dead coral!!!

Zoey · Mar 15, 2016

Aptasia X didnt work in my tank, for every one we got with it 3 more would grow, 2 peppermint shimps cleared my problem in under a week and now they will eat frozen and quickly get rid of any aptasia that do spring up!

NanaReefer · Mar 15, 2016

ReeferBob said:
lol - yes - well it started from a ball of cheato purchased from a forum member (not this forum). I saw one small one a month or so later and treated it immediately with AiptasiaX. Then I had some behind my rock wall which I had no way to get to. Some in the overflows that were hard to get to. The rest is history. Tank is still up since I have some really nice Mushrooms I am trying to save, but the livestock has been moved. The tank will be nuked very shortly. I took an infested rock out and put it in a quarantine tank and raised the temp as high as the heater would go and the Aiptasia laughed at that. They are seriously hard to kill. Oh and I will NEVER do a rock wall again!

Thanks for clearing this up with a more in depth explanation. Makes more sense why you wound up with the infestation that you did. [emoji6]

GreatWhiteTang · Mar 16, 2016

ReeferBob said:

Looks like my Rubbermaid I propagate aptasia in for my butterfly !!!

1MJG1 · Mar 16, 2016

KatSea said:
Thanks everyone for the ideas of how to deal with it. Ive been very sick since I posted it and sadly havent been able to do anything but when I check it this morning it was gone. So at first I thought itbwas because my lights had been off all night so I turned them on waited a while and nothing. I dont see it on anything else in the tank but Ill keep a look out. Maybe its just hiding cause it knows its final days are coming.

just keep your eyes peeled. aptasia are known to hide and move through all those little holes in the rock. I thought i took one out and it just went through the rock and started opening on the backside....Like everyone said suffocate it with glue. should do the trick. Good lUCK!

1MJG1 · Mar 16, 2016

GreatWhiteTang said:
Looks like my Rubbermaid I propagate aptasia in for my butterfly !!!

how much for the whole colony? shouldn't this be in the sponsor auction forum?

icemanalex · Mar 16, 2016

ReeferBob said:
lol - yes - well it started from a ball of cheato purchased from a forum member (not this forum). I saw one small one a month or so later and treated it immediately with AiptasiaX. Then I had some behind my rock wall which I had no way to get to. Some in the overflows that were hard to get to. The rest is history. Tank is still up since I have some really nice Mushrooms I am trying to save, but the livestock has been moved. The tank will be nuked very shortly. I took an infested rock out and put it in a quarantine tank and raised the temp as high as the heater would go and the Aiptasia laughed at that. They are seriously hard to kill. Oh and I will NEVER do a rock wall again!

I had close to the same look Tried all kinds of things then I bought a matted file fish NO MORE aiptasias best fish I ever bought. I have only seen one anem in the tank since then and its in a crevasse in one of my rocks He eyeballs it and waits for it to get closer to the opening . I am very confident he will get this lonely one eventually also

kdwdarkskies · Mar 16, 2016

aptasia can be controlled, no guarantee that if you removed that rock that there wouldn't be more.
aptasia-x is a reef safe controller of aptasia, not too costly. Diligence pays off on this one.

kdwdarkskies · Mar 16, 2016

aptasia eating filefish is good. A berghia nudibranch is good, but they die after all the aptasia is gone, one little piece and here they come, long term is a filefish. peppermint shrimp are worthless.

GreatWhiteTang · Mar 17, 2016

Agree Pepys are useless unless it's a large group of like 7+ per like 50 gallons .. Most Pepys you buy are captive bred and are fed prepared foods .. These ones don't ever seem to get a taste for aptasia .. Ide agree a filefish or a copperband .. But they are tough to keep fed after the aptasia is gone so ide still agree the filefish is the best