ID this thing plz

darkrabbit · Jan 31, 2019

Just saw this guy on my hammer. I’m removing him now bc I don’t know what it is, but for future reference.... is this aiptasia? Thanks in advance!!

reeflife3 · Jan 31, 2019

yes, it does look like aiptasia

darkrabbit · Jan 31, 2019

I just finished carving it off with an xacto knife. God dangit. I hope this was the only one.

I just got some chaeto from the LFS and put it in the sump yesterday! Also been feeding live brine from same LFS last 3 days. I freshwater dipped the chaeto...

Now to keep an eye out.

Thanks!

darkrabbit · Jan 31, 2019

There’s another, 1cm down from this one. Tempted to dip the coral but I think I’ll try lemon juice. I may have made a mistake by cutting the other one off as that can cause a population explosion. Great.

ajhudson15 · Jan 31, 2019

since its o the base and you can remove it from the tank I would take the coral out and drop some peroxide on the aptasia. or put a dab of glue on it. make sure you cover all of it and don't get any on the coral itself.

Fudsey · Jan 31, 2019

I don't think dipping the coral will get rid of them. I'd pull the piece and dig out what you can then superglue the hole.

darkrabbit · Jan 31, 2019

Thanks guys. By superglue do you mean like gorilla glue? Is that safe to use? Or coral glue?

S-t-r-e-t-c-h · Jan 31, 2019

Yeah, probably not great to go cutting up aiptasia. Every bit of tissue that remains will form a new anemone.

The ideas above are all viable to get rid of them. I think the others are referring to coral glue...

darkrabbit · Jan 31, 2019

Yep read that after I cut it off

K I’ll put some coral glue on it, hopefully that will end this.

Thanks all.

Fudsey · Jan 31, 2019

Any gel superglue will work. I use Gorilla

Gonebad395 · Jan 31, 2019

I had 2 in my tank on in the sand I scooped out a second in my rock work. I tried lemon juice, peroxide, glue and then I bought the small bottle of aptaisa x and no more for 11 bucks was well worth it

darkrabbit · Jan 31, 2019

Lemon juice was going to be my next move but I just looked up Aiptasia X. If I start seeing more and more on things that can’t be easily removed I’ll likely go in that direction.