I think I may just take down my tank :(

[jonleeroyix]

These Aiptasia have beaten me, somehow they can’t beat my corals though lol, but the entire tank every nooo and cranny has them, now a wild bubble algae has appeared, and most of my fish died in quarantine from ich. and I just had my second kid, thinking this hobby may need to be put away for a few years but it’s been fun! Just wanted to share the insane amounts of Aiptasia

 

[killer2001]

Looks like a perfect candidate for breeding berghia nudibranch and making some $$$ before you exit.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

What size aquarium? I'm Nottingham so may take it off your hands

 

[brandon429]

wrong thread/edit

 

[Mark Goode]

What size aquarium? I'm Nottingham so may take it off your hands

I think the gentleman is in a different Birmingham.

 

[ninjamyst]

Feast for some peppermint shrimps

 

[brandon429]

a chance to learn how to never be beaten by an anemone ever again. big opportunity here, don't cash it in.

I know how you can beat them but no mortal human would consent to completing a thread I already started two years ago. the anemone rules all, it takes our will.

until someone rises up, one day. queue tina turner we don't need another hero soundtrack for your motivation

 

[brandon429]

you can cut every one of those out in one pass and be 99% done in five hours work/price of delay. price of playing around vs getting serious, however you want to justify the catchup work

five hours to gain your tank back

after you replace the sandbed via a rip clean, and rasp off the rocks a certain way, you'll have a mere 5-10 as leftovers you didn't see once it's all rebuilt.

those can be taken in a quick pass by lifting up the rocks from the perfectly cleaned rip cleaned tank you'll own, and ablating the new ones right off.

you will go from 500

to 15

to zero

to 2 in like two mos time that you shear off

and then zero. aips are the easiest to beat in reefing, you start with #1. you merely refuse anemone #500 and it can't win, it's technically not stronger than you. all ways you read about are fragmenting

but not surgical shearing of the foothold substrate, that's thorough. and micro surgery

five hours to skip cycle your tank back into perfect clean ready. no cycle startover, keep your rock etc.

 

[Tamberav]

Chloroquine would kill then all and algae too would have to remove inverts and any decorative algae though. Drastic but ykno… some people go nuclear. Difficult to find stuff though.

 

[vetteguy53081]

you can cut every one of those out in one pass and be 99% done in five hours work/price of delay. price of playing around vs getting serious, however you want to justify the catchup work

five hours to gain your tank back

after you replace the sandbed via a rip clean, and rasp off the rocks a certain way, you'll have a mere 5-10 as leftovers you didn't see once it's all rebuilt.

those can be taken in a quick pass by lifting up the rocks from the perfectly cleaned rip cleaned tank you'll own, and ablating the new ones right off.

you will go from 500

to 15

to zero

to 2 in like two mos time that you shear off

and then zero. aips are the easiest to beat in reefing, you start with #1. you merely refuse anemone #500 and it can't win, it's technically not stronger than you. all ways you read about are fragmenting

but not surgical shearing of the foothold substrate, that's thorough. and micro surgery

five hours to skip cycle your tank back into perfect clean ready. no cycle startover, keep your rock etc.

If you have less than 20 aptasia, simple method is Using syringe, inject either lemon juice or better yet. . kalkwasser powder mixed with tank water into a paste the consistency of toothpaste and inject into the very center core and it will melt away
If infestation, consider a BLUEHEAD not yellow Kleini butterfly which will eat them likel candy and also eat all dry and frozen food once gone. They also will not turn on coral which the yellow version will and they are very friendly

Bluehead:

 

[jonleeroyix]

was

If you have less than 20 aptasia, simple method is Using syringe, inject either lemon juice or better yet. . kalkwasser powder mixed with tank water into a paste the consistency of toothpaste and inject into the very center core and it will melt away
If infestation, consider a BLUEHEAD not yellow Kleini butterfly which will eat them likel candy and also eat all dry and frozen food once gone. They also will not turn on coral which the yellow version will and they are very friendly

Bluehead:

I had done the kalkwasser method 3 times before, they always came back just the same, like i could never get em all so I just gave up on it lol

 

[jonleeroyix]

I think the gentleman is in a different Birmingham.

Yes sir I’m in Birmingham Alabama U.S

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Inspiration! Not mine, I take care of them with the first sight of them, kalkwasser paste is all I know..

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Looks like a perfect candidate for breeding berghia nudibranch and making some $$$ before you exit.

I was just going to say the same thing about peppermint shrimp, lol

 

[Daddio64]

I had a terrible infestation years ago the nudibranch method cleared it up fairly quick. Never saw a nudibranch after I put them in but the aiptasia started to disappear.

 

[Floyd-]

I had more than that in my 175 gallon tank. Got some aiptasa treatment and some peppermint shrimp and now I have almost none. Nothing in this hobby goes fast.

 

[Willie Phillips]

These Aiptasia have beaten me, somehow they can’t beat my corals though lol, but the entire tank every nooo and cranny has them, now a wild bubble algae has appeared, and most of my fish died in quarantine from ich. and I just had my second kid, thinking this hobby may need to be put away for a few years but it’s been fun! Just wanted to share the insane amounts of Aiptasia

Peppermint shrimp works for me