What worked for your aiptasia?

[Garf]

Catch the buggers when they are small and nuke the buggers. In case i haven’t saiid buggars enough, BUGGARS.

 

[DHill6]

I caught a peppermint shrimp going after a very expensive scoly, I removed the shrimp. This shrimp was fed LRF directly also, it wasn’t starving, it got a very generous portion daily.

 

[jhuntstl]

So everything eats everything.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I caught a peppermint shrimp going after a very expensive scoly, I removed the shrimp. This shrimp was fed LRF directly also, it wasn’t starving, it got a very generous portion daily.

Peppermint shrimp make good food for wrasses

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

Yes, absolutely. I'd chuck the leather into a jar after treatment for a few days, just to ensure that it doesn't try to reproduce asexually in your display.

I owe an apology - my 7 tiny nudis (i hate spelling it all out) came out to $117 w/ shipping. I cant differentiate shipping amount from nudis themselves so yes cheaper than in the great white north.

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

My Raccoon Butterfly that I have up for adoption, decimated my aptasia population in my 40... in about 3 days! But he would probably eat anything polypy... but hey, if you are super desperate...

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

So everything eats everything.

Circle of life, lol.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Peppermint shrimp make good food for wrasses

Yup, they did in my case.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Ya I'll 2nd that. I haven't had good success with copperbands or pyramid butterflyfish actually eating what you want. They either eat like pigs on your fish food or starve.
D

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I was worried about my squirrelfish and toadfish eating my pepps but the ones that lived long enough did the job for me.
D

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

I was worried about my squirrelfish and toadfish eating my pepps but the ones that lived long enough did the job for me.
D

I'm shocked the squirrel fish didn't do in the shrimp. I had a striped squirrelfish about 10years ago in a fowlr and it tore through cuc (mainly hermits) like there was no tomorrow.

 

[dadnjesse]

I have been reefing for 13 years and never had Aiptasia. About a year ago they started popping up everywhere. I have been using Franks F aiptasia. This works but new one just kept coming. I just put 5 peppermint shrimp into my tank, since I can't find any more Aiptasia.

 

[Tamberav]

Boiling water turns them to mush and I pull back on the plunger and it pulls out the whole contents of the nem from it's little hole. It just looks like brown sludge at that point in the syringe.

It does take some practice and I use a really big syringe to be sure I fry them good. The water in no way gets warm, maybe if you are using a tiny syringe. I tried to film myself doing it before but... holding the camera and trying to nuke a nem didn't work so well...

I bought rock with aiptasia on it because it was old live rock.. I don't have any problems with Aiptasia and that is the only method I used. I kept the rock in a 25g so it is much easier to just target kill them then a large tank. All it takes is missing one and there could be aiptasia's the size of a grain of rice you don't see.

I think the big problem is when people delay getting them all and get over-run or have large tanks or they cement rock work together or a very densely coral tank. Then you would need predation as you simply can not reach them all, I recommend a butterfly. Copperband has pretty good success (not 100%) and fairly safe with corals.

I just kept killing them as I found them. I bought that rock about 3 years ago and all is well. If anyone wants to trade me some nice live rock with pest nems for pest free dry rock...!

 

[Gatorpa]

I had a 7'x2'x2' tank with full of these pests. I tried all the methods that we talk about here and on the web. The only thing that worked was the Copperband. Like an angle my Copperband ate all of those ______ in like two weeks.

You can see here he had a buffet. lol

I’ll second this.
Had an issue years ago, the CB wrecked them away.
Next true peppermint shrimp.
Super thick kalkwasser also but it can sometimes cause a spread.

 

[DHill6]

Peppermint shrimp make good food for wrasses

Boiling water turns them to mush and I pull back on the plunger and it pulls out the whole contents of the nem from it's little hole. It just looks like brown sludge at that point in the syringe. It does take some practice. I tried to film myself doing it before but... holding the camera and trying to nuke a nem didn't work so well...

I bought rock with aiptasia on it because it was old live rock.. I don't have any problems with Aiptasia and that is the only method I used. I kept the rock in a 25g so it is much easier to just target kill them then a large tank. All it takes is missing one and there could be aiptasia's the size of a grain of rice you don't see.

I think the big problem is when people delay getting them all and get over-run or have large tanks or they cement rock work together or a very densely coral tank. Then you would need predation as you simply can not reach them all, I recommend a butterfly. Copperband has pretty good success (not 100%) and fairly safe with corals.

I just kept killing them as I found them. I bought that rock about 3 years ago and all is well. If anyone wants to trade me some nice live rock with pest nems for pest free dry rock...!

How big of a syringe are you using? Iyried the hot water once, it squirted out before getting it to the nem. It was boiled water.

 

[DHill6]

How big of a syringe are you using? Iyried the hot water once, it squirted out before getting it to the nem. It was boiled water.

Tried, not lyrics, phone phonics

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

It is a shame that aiptasia cant just NOT spread and take over a tank. Itd be cool to get a cool lil free surprise w/ a frag purchase. Anyone?

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

All my squirrelfish I've ever owned have been model citizens really. Only eat big chunks of sea food or fish food I feed the tank. No cuc. No fish. I've probably had at least 6. 3 or 4 different variations and one was a good 6-8"
My shadowfin squirrelfish RIP. I'd buy another one rn if I could find one.
D

 

[Tamberav]

How big of a syringe are you using? Iyried the hot water once, it squirted out before getting it to the nem. It was boiled water.

Why would it squirt out? The water should stay inside until you push the plunger.

I use 10ml but have even grabbed a 50ml to make sure that thing melts into near nothing and no cell left alive...

the best part is it doesn't matter if the nem goes into it's hole.. you just flood its hole with LAVA!!!

Edit: just be carful of curious fish and shrimp or nearby corals

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

All my squirrelfish I've ever owned have been model citizens really. Only eat big chunks of sea food or fish food I feed the tank. No cuc. No fish. I've probably had at least 6. 3 or 4 different variations and one was a good 6-8"
My shadowfin squirrelfish RIP. I'd buy another one rn if I could find one.
D

Had to look up that shadowfin squirrelfish - what a cool looking fish!