Tank Pest

[AJP279]

what the heck...What is it...Where does it come from...How do I kill it...

 

[Pablopufferfish]

Aiptasia

 

[ndrwater]

Yup

 

[CCauthers]

From what I can tell, you have aiptaisa. With how many it looks like you have, I would try aiptaisa-x or I would inject them with kalk paste

 

[Flippers4pups]

I use kalk paste myself.

 

[Sylvester]

I would try a peppermint shrimp or tile fish. Some have luck with either or , and some with Aiptasia X. My personal experience led to more Aiptasia being born after injecting the X and having it blow up and release babies. Cleaner shrimp did it naturally without chemicals.

 

[jerrod]

I clicked on this just cause of the title lol. Other options are filefish, peppermint shrimp, berghia nudibranchs all are not 100% and they do have some cons as well.

 

[Cherub]

nudibranchs. its the only way to go. everything else spreads them

 

[vetteguy53081]

take kalkwasser powder and mix into a thin paste. Using a syringe , inject into the center core of each aptasia. You can do a few each day if there are too many in one area. The aptasia will melt away with this paste.

 

[LRT]

Bergia Nudibranch. Found some Aiptasia in my sump/main res recently.

 

[AJP279]

Aiptasia

OK...I probably over reacted, I ordered 10 nudibranchs, overnight; Aptasia X; and some kind of wand that cost 130.00 bucks and zaps them dead. Regardless of what happens...they are all gunna die.

 

[LRT]

OK...I probably over reacted, I ordered 10 nudibranchs, overnight; Aptasia X; and some kind of wand that cost 130.00 bucks and zaps them dead. Regardless of what happens...they are all gunna die.

Bergia should take care of them pronto.
I'd suggest cancelling order on magic wand thing.
Get a hang on acclimating tank and place your Bergia in it with a small aiptasia when you get them. All they need to do is be around aiptasia and they will breed and lay eggs and multiply and your only problem then will be not enough aiptasia to feed the Bergia lol.

 

[LRT]

nudibranchs. its the only way to go. everything else spreads them

Agreed. Original poster should be real hesitant disrupting the aiptasia inside the tank altho I probably would aiptasia x the big ones very carefully.
The Bergia will take care of the rest for sure.