Aptasia and other coral ?'s

[blockamon]

My guess is that your shrimp ate them as they developed until he died (about 6 months ago, right). Why did it take 6 months? I have no idea.

I personally use the kalkwasser slurry method (I think Joe's juice is similar). Works really well.

 

[killieskid]

aiptasia

We had aiptasia in out tank when we first set up from our LR, we went out and got peppermint shrimp, only thing thing they have done is to look cute. so we did the joes juice thing, i was worried about the residue, but so far there is no harm from it and the aiptasia is gone. here's a before and after pic's

 

[Pallen81]

what if you have a FOWLR or fish only

apistas look kinda cool... can you keep them? will they do any harm to anyone else.

 

[killieskid]

after a while its all you would have in your tank, it spreads like weeds and hurts the fish

 

[Tikidude]

The young man at my LFS suggested that I take a long thin wire and poke it down into the center. He said they would actually explode when you do that. It definitely sounds easier than trying to inject them, but I have doen neither method as I just found my first one last night before the lights went off and I plan on tackling it tonight after work.

 

[Reefkid 07]

We had aiptasia in out tank when we first set up from our LR, we went out and got peppermint shrimp, only thing thing they have done is to look cute. so we did the joes juice thing, i was worried about the residue, but so far there is no harm from it and the aiptasia is gone. here's a before and after pic's

There are actually 6 different species of Peppermint Shrimp. Only I think 3 or 4 of the 6 eat Aptasias. You can ask someone from your lfs if they can classify them. I go to Aquamaine's Fish and Reptile World and another one called like Aquarium shop of nc. Only aquamaine can classify them. I like the pepremint Shrimp method bc you get a little aptasia killing thing along with a really smart cute little shrimp that mimics you. Every Peppermint Shrimp I had, I hand fed it. It also mimicked me if I would shake my head back and forth to it.