Pesty Anemone Looking Things

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Our tank is infested with brown, ugly anemone looking things that have long tendrils. They multiply faster than rabbits and seem to sting the corals. If they get big enough, they can move. What are these things and how can we get rid of them?

HELP!!!
 
aiptasia it sounds like
you can inject them with joe's juice, boiling water, lemon juice, or kalk paste.
some pepermint shrimp will also eat them
and you can also jsut cover them with something like superglue gel or holdfast epoxy. but if you have alot, that may not be the best choice.
 
Berghia

I've been reading that berghia are the best way to get rid of these things but they look very fragile. Is that best or should we try Joe's Juice? I'm guessing these things are very hard to stick with a needle.:help:
 
ive tried all the above and the best ways are eather the natural to use the peperment shrimp or bergia or to use aiptasia control...its fish and reef safe and i literally melts them away i got rid of mine in a day with a few stragglers that i later finished off. Blue Vet(BueLife) makes it. give it a try i didnt get as good results with joes juce and its alot cheeper. all the customers that come in to my work with the problem walk out with aiptasia control and come back telling me its the best ever . i refuse to recomend joes juce now but none the less it works most the time. and boiling water dosnt work well; the big ones recover.
 
I've always just removed the rock to a bucket and treated with a little lemmon juice. If you have a major infestation I would consider bhergia as they only eat aiptapsia.
Cheers
 
I have this problem as well. So far my peppermint shrimp don't seem to be making much of a difference. Anyone have more info on bhergia?
 
Max, when you say remove the rock and treat with lemon...How are you getting the lemon into the aptasia? Would be a good way, i have a couple big ones, and everytime i go near them with the syringe, they just retreat into the rock work..

Niko
 
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