Need ID Help

[Volsman85]

Are these or this algae or something else? They seem to have a base.
Thx in advance folks

 

[Maritimer]

Those look like aiptasia - a small anemone generally considered to be a pest.

~B.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Need a picture with white light only, please. Looks like aiptasia.

 

[KJ]

Aiptasia.

 

[Billdogg]

What all of them have said. Pest anemones that will spread rapidly.

 

[anthonygf]

Are these or this algae or something else? They seem to have a base.
Thx in advance folks

Use Red Sea Aiptasia X and eliminate them all.

 

[Volsman85]

What all of them have said. Pest anemones that will spread rapidly.

Best way to eradicate?

 

[Billdogg]

If there's just a few, a syringe filled with boiling water is what I use. Just cook them where they sit. If it's a rock that can be easily removed, do the same, but outside the tank. You can also use Kalk paste or even epoxy to cover them.

 

[Volsman85]

If there's just a few, a syringe filled with boiling water is what I use. Just cook them where they sit. If it's a rock that can be easily removed, do the same, but outside the tank. You can also use Kalk paste or even epoxy to cover them.

Thanks. Ive since been told peppermint shrimp will eat them. But I'm concerned that will take too long and if they spread fast, I don't think they can keep up. I have 2. Maybe I need more or just "cook" them like you said. Please advise. Thx

 

[Billdogg]

the problem with pepermint shrimp is that maybe they will, maybe they won't. If the aiptasia are large they definitely won't.

 

[Volsman85]

the problem with pepermint shrimp is that maybe they will, maybe they won't. If the aiptasia are large they definitely won't.

Thanks. I'll zap em

 

[Volsman85]

If there's just a few, a syringe filled with boiling water is what I use. Just cook them where they sit. If it's a rock that can be easily removed, do the same, but outside the tank. You can also use Kalk paste or even epoxy to cover them.

Please elaborate on the paste or epoxy. Surely not from a hardware store? I'm trying to avoid taking the rock(s) out.

 

[PTXReef]

Please elaborate on the paste or epoxy. Surely not from a hardware store? I'm trying to avoid taking the rock(s) out.

I just use gel gorilla glue. Any gel based super glue should be fine! I found 2 aiptasia on a coral I recently got, glued them, and that was it! If they were that large, I would use seachem coralcrete (what's available at my LFS).

 

[TheShrimpNibbler]

Please elaborate on the paste or epoxy. Surely not from a hardware store? I'm trying to avoid taking the rock(s) out.

There is reed safe epoxy that you can buy, and I think that most people that use it on Aiptasia just entirely cover the whole anemone so that it gets no flow, light, or oxygen.

 

[Volsman85]

There is reed safe epoxy that you can buy, and I think that most people that use it on Aiptasia just entirely cover the whole anemone so that it gets no flow, light, or oxygen.

Thanks

 

[Volsman85]

There is reed safe epoxy that you can buy, and I think that most people that use it on Aiptasia just entirely cover the whole anemone so that it gets no flow, light, or oxygen.

Thanks

 

[Billdogg]

I refuse to pay the price for "reef" epoxy. JB Waterweld is the very same product at half the price.