My rock looks as though its growing hair if you know what I mean. Peppermint shrimp are pretty much worthless or its just the ones I buy. Joes Juice won't do it. It seems like that stuff is a ferilizer for apstasia itself. I have tried nearly all other than buying a Copperband and I'm worried that they would end up dying since they are hard to take care of. I'm this close to pitching my rock and starting over but with the price of rock today that would be expensive. So what does kill that crap out??? Would a Copperband do it or would that be a BIG gamble?:swear:
What "REALLY" Kills out Apstasia???
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Nothing is 100% from my experience. What has worked best for me is using Aiptasia Control (just like Joe's Juice, all just a kalk paste) to kill them back, but I know that doesn't usually get rid of them completely. Once they are killed back and small again then pepermint shrimp will usually solve the problem. Make sure they are "True" pepermints and not camel shrimp. If you have a needle/syringe and are fast enough you can get lucky if you can inject Joe's Juice into the anemone. They move so fast when touched that it is hard to do, but if you get it there is a better chance of it dying.
Yeah, I know the difference between a Camelback. I went to my LFS and they gave me the incorrect ones one time. I for some reason have never had any luck with Joes. I watched one time when I dosed with Joes and that crap seems to die out but I feel they send out seeds when they explode. Some imagination, huh? My rock has much hair on it as I have on my head, ha. Is there something you can do to make the shrimp go for that crap?
I bought a piece of lr a while back with about 5 or 6 aptasia. I tried the peppermint shrimp but the aptasia were too big. I took the lr out if the tank and hit each one with boiling water using an eye dropper. Then hit them with lemon juice. I had read that both would work so I tried both at same time. If I were you, I would try lemon juice first with an eye dropper because the boiling water will kill any nitrifying bacteria or algea. (In my case the rock was covered in coraline and now has big white spots where aptasia was.) But all aptasia dead now. So either boiling water (cook 'em) or lemon juice.
Yeah, my rocks covered in coraline, but I guess if I could get rid of this apstasia I could live with the white spots for awhile. I have quite a bit of rock and I aint gonna buy new now. I will try the lemon juice. I really not sure if I want to take the rock out of the water though. As I moving things around I found a new star in it. And its BIG if you know what I mean. Thanks
get strait up kalkwaiser fresh mix the joes juice probably lost its kick for being in a bottle to long but yeah i dont just give them a little i bury them in it so any fragments cant escape. If the frags escape they while have more aps
Debra Mark
Wench Boots!
If you don't want to go the chemical route, berghia nudibranchs eat only aiptasia....but you have to be careful not to have any fish in your community that will eat the berghia (like wrasses).
i boiled water sucked into syringe and got 4 out of 5 aptasia that i had and the last one was gone in one night after i purchased 2 peppermint shrimp so i guess its a hit and miss kinda thing i feel for ya though those aptasia will take over fast now i have green polpy taking over my lr so i dont really have any room for aptasia or maybe i just dont see any
I had one in my old tank. I put the rock under the hottest water I could get from the sink, took boiling water and blew it in it's hole with a turkey baster, and then stuck a lighter in the hole and burned it with the lighter. Washed it back out again and I didn't see it from then on.
I make a thick kalk paste, turn off all the pumps / powerheads, and literally cement the aiptasia in with the kalk paste using a large tip (needleless) syringe -- covering the entire small area that it is attached to / filling the hole it's coming out of. I could just be lucky, but I've yet to have one come back. If there's a lot of aiptasia, be careful using kalk paste / lemon juice / vinegar / etc. as anything that can alter the water chemistry can do so to an unsafe extreme if it needs to be used in a great quantity.