Best Method for Aiptasia Removal
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oh okay =) I was just worried about the tiny aiptasia floating everywhere. What if I added a few peppermint shrimp after it clears and maybe they will eat it out of the sand before I put the rock back?
I had an outbreak in my 150 and I tried a copperbanded, no luck. I couldn't try peppermints (eel and puffer in tank) so I tried joes juice. it took a couple of bottles and a couple of weeks but it worked for me and I haven't seen any aiptasia in the three years since.
Even after the fresh water, all the aiptasia still wasn't dead! I put it all back in boiling water and then took each piece and used high water pressure with boiling water to get everything off. I now have the rock sitting in a bucket with no water so if there is anything on there still it will just dry out. Is it ok to leave the rock out of water? Or will it have to cure again or something?
I did more water changes on the tank, cleaned the filter, heater powerheads and glass and I hardly see any aiptasia left, only a few tiny ones in the live sand. I bought a couple peppermint shrimp in the hope that they eat the remaining tiny ones. I only put a couple pieces of the live rock back in the tank, but I guess now its dead rock. I'm worried that any aiptasia still in the tank will infect the rock again or will the peppermints take care of it?
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I did more water changes on the tank, cleaned the filter, heater powerheads and glass and I hardly see any aiptasia left, only a few tiny ones in the live sand. I bought a couple peppermint shrimp in the hope that they eat the remaining tiny ones. I only put a couple pieces of the live rock back in the tank, but I guess now its dead rock. I'm worried that any aiptasia still in the tank will infect the rock again or will the peppermints take care of it?
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If you leave it out to long I'm thinking you'll need to cure it again unfortunately.. Stuff will start to die and that will cause ammonia issues.
You can hope the peppermints take care of it, or since you have really whittled your numbers down you could try attacking them directly with those other listed remedies.
You can hope the peppermints take care of it, or since you have really whittled your numbers down you could try attacking them directly with those other listed remedies.
I left the rock out of water overnight and I decided to put it back in the tank today and it just looked cloudy. After a few hours it looks even more cloudy and very dirty looking and the tank smells really bad. So I hope its not curing again? So I will have to take out the inverts and fish? And I can't believe after all the boiling that there are still two large aiptasia that are still alive! I'm guessing these are a couple of the mother aiptasia?
oh my god, dude. i can't believe you let them talk you into this mess. i think you did it all wrong. but what's done is done. i would buy some bio-spira, shot the machenical filtration off for few hours to allow bacteria sattle into the tank, start doing testing for ammonia and nitrite just to monitor the tank for at least a week. do not leave your rock out of the water. do not do anything to your sand. in fact, do not continue fighting aiptasia, you'll beat it with couple of peppermints, don't worry. it's just large peppermints mostlikely will have a taste for anemones already developed, that's why i recomended only big once. what you are doing to your tank is not worth it. calm down with aiptasia. the problem at this point though is i don't know if your system even stable enough to house shrimps. it just if you kill live kritters you also kill bacteria that makes your system stable. i don't know how badly you messed up your rock, i hope not too bad, which is you'll know when your tests will be showing okay results. maybe adding some Prime for assurance would be also good, but that might throw test kits off, not sure. never do what you did again, i don't care what the problem is, there are other ways of fixing it without killing everything. i used to have thick brush of aiptasia on my glass, gravel, and rocks, but now with my peppermint in one tank and copperband in another, i have a friend at the fish store who sometimes gives me small pieces of rocks with aiptasia on them for my guys to play with because i don't have any aiptasia left. good luck.
eh yea I think I did it all wrong. After putting the fish in the 10 gal I made the mistake of putting a couple pieces of rock in the tank with them which made the water all cloudy and very disgusting looking, so I put the fish back in the main tank once the sand settled. All the levels were fine. So then I thought I could put the rock back in the tank main tank again for some reason. I put a few pieces back in and the water and it cleared up more. The next day I added the rest of the rock and now it smells terrible and the ammonia is at 1.0. The fish look fine still, all I have is a clarkii clown, a six line and some hermits and snails. So will the ammonia get higher than that? I know its not safe to keep fish in the tank while it cures. But I don't have an extra heater for the 10 ( I used the one from the main tank last time) So should I take the heater again and transfer the fish back into the 10 with nothing in it? I thought the rock needed heat to cure? Help me please! I don't know what to do
