What is this on my live rock
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Aiptasia, kill it all now! I have found Red Sea AiptasiaX to be the best product and easiest to use. Good luck.
geez.. with that many I would just take the rock out and drop it in a bucket of vinegar and then rinse VERY well after. That is a severe infestation you have.
About Aiptasia X, and these mirror my experience as well:
About Aiptasia X, and these mirror my experience as well:
There are many different types of Aptasia. The ones I've personally seen is the brownish kind, as seen here... A white type, which I thought looked cool. Last but not least a green type.
Although, some desirable coral kind of sorta looks like them to a beginner, so be careful.
If it's a smaller tank Peppermint shrimp will clear them out fairly fast in groups. Although they are reported to eat polyps after the aptasia is all eaten. I have 3 in my 20 gallon, they don't mess with any of my desired corals and eat brine shrimp.
For larger tanks a File Fish is a possibility. Although the same is reported for them as the shrimps.
Copperband Butterfly Fish also are known to eat aptasia, but I would never recommend one. They are very anemic.
As for AiptasiaX you have to do it every day to get anywhere with it.
Ok so it seems like there are a few ways to get rid of this and none of them are fully effective. I also read you can inject them with lemon juice?
I'm considering either getting a peppermint shrimp and letting him clean up, or Aiptasia X or Joe's Juice (has anyone used this one before? any better than A X?)
I'm considering either getting a peppermint shrimp and letting him clean up, or Aiptasia X or Joe's Juice (has anyone used this one before? any better than A X?)
Everything I cna think of that will kill Aiptasia will kill desirable corals if it lands on them.
In my experience Joe's Juice is like Aiptasia X, you need to jam the applicating needle into the aiptasia to kill them, not feed it to them. The problem with Joe's Juice is that it is chalky, so you need to shake it a lot, the applicator gets clogged easily, etc.
I treated a customer's tank recently with Aiptasia X. I know no one else is doing anything to it so I will have to see how well it worked. any that seemed to have stopped scrunching up and were half inflated I hit again untl they looked completely melted. I will see how well they did.
In my experience Joe's Juice is like Aiptasia X, you need to jam the applicating needle into the aiptasia to kill them, not feed it to them. The problem with Joe's Juice is that it is chalky, so you need to shake it a lot, the applicator gets clogged easily, etc.
I treated a customer's tank recently with Aiptasia X. I know no one else is doing anything to it so I will have to see how well it worked. any that seemed to have stopped scrunching up and were half inflated I hit again untl they looked completely melted. I will see how well they did.
We always use lemon juice ourselves. Works well as long as you get it into the aiptasia and not on it.
