Is this Aiptasia?

Boudreaux1945 · Apr 25, 2020

would someone help me by identifying what this is? Thank you!!!!

Mike N · Apr 25, 2020

Yes, that looks like a large cluster of aiptasia unfortunately.

Boudreaux1945 · Apr 25, 2020

Mike N said:
Yes, that looks like a large cluster of aiptasia unfortunately.

Thank you! Any recommendations?

Og_Reef · Apr 25, 2020

Boudreaux1945 said:
Thank you! Any recommendations?

A filefish could help you out

El_Guapo13 · Apr 25, 2020

Natural options (as in, animals that eat Aiptasia)
1. Aiptasia Eating Filefish - have heard of some eating corals too.
2. Peppermint Shrimp - same as the filefish, some people say they have found them eating soft corals and the tissue from lps corals
3. Berghia Nudibranchs - ONLY EAT AIPTASIA. they will literally starve to death and die out without any Aiptasia to eat. Some people worry about them being eaten by wrasses, but part 9f tue reason the Berghia eat Aiptasia is to absorb their stinging cells to defend themselves with.

Products that you can use for Aiptasia control/extermination
1. Aiptasia X - I use it with no problems.
2. Lasers - kinda expensive and you don't want to accidentally butlrn something else with the laser.
3. Majano Wands - no experience with these and I hardly know anything about them other than that they exist lol
4. Kalwasser - just blast them directly. Basically what Aiptasia X is.
5. Super glue - just cover it with reef safe glue to suffocate it in an eternal tomb
6. Putty - like with super glue, just cover it with reef safe putty.

JustAnotherNanoTank · Apr 25, 2020

I have never seen aiptasia that looks like that. Following along for sure. Happy reefing.

vetteguy53081 · Apr 25, 2020

can you provide a closer pic. Yellow polyp coral also looks like this

Yellow polyp coral:

If it is aptasia, A kleini Butterfly would eat this down to zero andd then eat all foods offered thereafyet

Boudreaux1945 · Apr 25, 2020

Thank you all for your input.
I have a Filefish and Peppermint Shrimp. Since I just found this odd thing this morning on the back of my rocks- I don’t know if they are already on it- but honestly- it doesn’t look disturbed. This pic is the best I can do from where the rock sits.

Boudreaux1945 · Apr 25, 2020

El_Guapo13 said:
Natural options (as in, animals that eat Aiptasia)
1. Aiptasia Eating Filefish - have heard of some eating corals too.
2. Peppermint Shrimp - same as the filefish, some people say they have found them eating soft corals and the tissue from lps corals
3. Berghia Nudibranchs - ONLY EAT AIPTASIA. they will literally starve to death and die out without any Aiptasia to eat. Some people worry about them being eaten by wrasses, but part 9f tue reason the Berghia eat Aiptasia is to absorb their stinging cells to defend themselves with.

Products that you can use for Aiptasia control/extermination
1. Aiptasia X - I use it with no problems.
2. Lasers - kinda expensive and you don't want to accidentally butlrn something else with the laser.
3. Majano Wands - no experience with these and I hardly know anything about them other than that they exist lol
4. Kalwasser - just blast them directly. Basically what Aiptasia X is.
5. Super glue - just cover it with reef safe glue to suffocate it in an eternal tomb
6. Putty - like with super glue, just cover it with reef safe putty.

I like the reef safe Super glue and putty idea!

JustAnotherNanoTank · Apr 25, 2020

I just.... I just don’t... I don’t think that’s aiptasia. I’m no professional but I don’t think that’s aiptasia.

El_Guapo13 · Apr 25, 2020

It looks like it almost has a skelton. Maybe it is some sort of coral. Doesn't really look like the yellow coral though. Give me a sec. Gonna look up hitchiker corals.