Killing Horizontal Aiptasia

[Hugh Mann]

There goes my laser idea, seems so cool. When I used AiptasiaX I remember needing to hit the mouth 1st because it did retract. Think I may have seen people using kalk also, not sure what the process is.

I believe Aiptasia X and Aiptasia Rx are both just concentrated kalk. Same procedure, get it into the mouth and it melts away.

If I had a curved tip for the syringe it wouldn't be an issue to hit them sideways, but where they are, I don't have the room to use a straight tip.

 

[John08007]

I believe Aiptasia X and Aiptasia Rx are both just concentrated kalk. Same procedure, get it into the mouth and it melts away.

If I had a curved tip for the syringe it wouldn't be an issue to hit them sideways, but where they are, I don't have the room to use a straight tip.

I thought my aiptasiax came with a slightly bent tip also, should be easy to find one on Amazon.

 

[Mical]

Don't get me wrong, it's cheap entertainment. (for awhile) Blasting them through the glass, watching them retract, some even burst & weirdest thing, it sounds like frying bacon - right through the glass! Then after you think you got rid of them twice as many are back within days. After going through this ritual and recharging laser batteries, I said enough's enough. I bought a pair of ORA aiptasia eating Filefish for both of my tanks.

In my 65 it took about a week to see aiptasia vanish. In my 120 about 10 days. What ORA folks have said - Filefish are shy and generally eat at night and that's when they hunt down aiptasia. Now that tanks are pretty aiptasia free (except in sump (which are on the weekend menu for these guys) The Filefish eat pellets, mysis and about anything else fed to them and they're model citizens around coral.