New tank and just found aptasia please help!

[CierraBeckwith]

I'd pull the rocks you added with aiptasia and deal with them out of the tank. If you have a spare tank to QT those rocks for a bit to ensure no more appear, that would be ideal. I'd also consider just scrapping them and getting some new live or dry rock. There's just no way I'm starting a brand new system with aiptasia. Various aiptasia eating creatures can work, but adding animals that weren't necessarily in the plan isn't ideal.

That's exactly what I was thinking, and I ended up just pulling the rocks with the aptasia and just added some new cycled rocks I got from a LFS

 

[CierraBeckwith]

OP if you are really worried about a few little aptasia now you're going to have a rough first year with the ugly stages. Just hit em with aptasia x and they will be gone but will always return sooner or later. It's just part of reefing unless maybe you have a good fish that eats them.

uglies I'm prepared for and expecting, aptasia I wasn't expecting so soon in. My almost 3 year old tank hasn't ever had it. Which is why I made this post and went to my LFS because this is my first time ever having aptasia in any tank I own. Everyone was a beginner at one point and my first year will be rough because I'm trying to find out how to deal with aptasia? I was mainly concerned about removing the cycled rocks but I solved my problem by getting new ones.

 

[Cell]

That's exactly what I was thinking, and I ended up just pulling the rocks with the aptasia and just added some new cycled rocks I got from a LFS

Good call. Not sure what some others are talking about here. Nobody wants to start a brand new system with aiptasia and with no livestock, this was by far the easiest and most efficient way to deal with it. You just have to keep a close eye and make sure it didn't already spread to your remaining rock.

 

[BubblesandSqueak]

Aiptasia??? Welcome to the club. We meet weekly.

Let it happen then deal later. Berghia worked for me. But every time you get a new frag, you risk it again.

 

[Lavey29]

uglies I'm prepared for and expecting, aptasia I wasn't expecting so soon in. My almost 3 year old tank hasn't ever had it. Which is why I made this post and went to my LFS because this is my first time ever having aptasia in any tank I own. Everyone was a beginner at one point and my first year will be rough because I'm trying to find out how to deal with aptasia? I was mainly concerned about removing the cycled rocks but I solved my problem by getting new ones.

Best of luck, hope it works out for you. I'm quite confident aptasia will visit you again. Natural methods such as peppermint shrimp, berghia or file fish would be my suggestion.