Aiptasia

[weileong]

Need some expert help to confirm if these are Aiptasia.

What's the best way of getting rid of them.

[weileong]

another one

[FuEl]

Inject with kalkwasser.

[weileong]

Cofirm or not it's Aiptasia, bcos I could see 3 or 4 in my tank.

and you said Inject, means use syringe and do injection direction into the aiptasia but they are so small.

Or do you meant by lowering the pH ?

[FuEl]

Use needle syringe and inject into the darn thing. You lower pH of your water everything else will die..not only your aiptasia

[Terryz_]

Buy peppermint shrimp also can rite... peppermint shrimp eat aiptasia one rite...

[Achilles Tang]

Yup! That's aiptasisa alright.

Just use a small syringe, suck up some kalkwasser paste and inject just over the mouth. They will automatically close up and suck in the kalkwasser paste and die almost immediately. Within a minute or two, you can scrap away the shrunken body and suck it out of the tank.

Be careful with the kalk paste. Suck up any residue. This operation is best done with zero water circulation as you don't want the paste to go onto any other organisms.

[Dispar_Anthias]

Squash them, smash them, kill them and inject them....

[Morgan]

Kalk paste don't seem to work for me......yes the shrunk up and seem to disappear but then they return after a month or 2

Don't know about peppermint shrimp but large copperband butterfly are very effective....down side is that after the aiptasia are gone the fish is going to starve unless you can get them to eat other type of food.

You cannot put tubeworms together with butterfly.

[dradttg]

Need some expert help to confirm if these are Aiptasia.

What's the best way of getting rid of them.

Why do we need to get rid of this?

Will it harm the coral or LS?

[Morgan]

When they grow too big.......will sting and irritate your fishes

They do sting certain corals.......it a win or lose war

It always start with just 1 and they can multiply really really fast and difficuit to kill cause their regenerative power is very strong.

And they are ugly.

[Achilles Tang]

Kalk paste don't seem to work for me......yes the shrunk up and seem to disappear but then they return after a month or 2

Don't know about peppermint shrimp but large copperband butterfly are very effective....down side is that after the aiptasia are gone the fish is going to starve unless you can get them to eat other type of food.

You cannot put tubeworms together with butterfly.

Morg,

The ones killed by kalk paste should be dead. Probably spread from some hidden nook. I know I have one or two which is really hard to reach.

Actually, I have not started my anti-aiptasia war... my clams still have the aiptasia on them...

[cool water]

aiptasia spp anemones: Add in acopperband butterfly fish. IMO no peppermint shrimp they eat zoanthids also.

use boiling water on it if that is a dead rock.

[ai[k²]wan]

peppermints are reef safe aren;'t they

[Morgan]

How would you define reef safe?

If it does not harm corals and other crustecean...then it is

If you consider them eating those pesky zoanthids...then it is not

[Assillian]

I think butterfly will do a the job but it might nip on some of your soft corals.

[Dong gu]

my peppermint isn't doing it's job well. probably not even doing anything at all!

[Morgan]

I think butterfly will do a the job but it might nip on some of your soft corals.

Yes butterfly fish of the chaetodon species will definately do the job...they will also clear all the hard corals in the process.

[junyong84]

how do these kind of stuff exist in the first place... they juz grow from no where??

[Morgan]

You normally bring them back as hitch hiker....on LR, on the clams shell and even corals.

[nivlac]

Like what the folks say, use a syringe with a long needle to inject hot chalk paste on them...

What I did was slightly different. I mixed the chalk paste with hot water to supersaturate the thing. Then I only used the syringe to suck up the clear part and used that on the pests. Works like a charm.

Peppermint shrimp- I haven't seen any for sale in the LFS here before. They usually have the camel-back shrimp only, which look like peppermint. Peppermints don't have camel backs.

[Achilles Tang]

Yes butterfly fish of the chaetodon species will definately do the job...they will also clear all the hard corals in the process.

Copperband too?

[Morgan]

Copperband is a chelmon.

[Joe_P]

Like what the folks say, use a syringe with a long needle to inject hot chalk paste on them...

What I did was slightly different. I mixed the chalk paste with hot water to supersaturate the thing. Then I only used the syringe to suck up the clear part and used that on the pests. Works like a charm.

Peppermint shrimp- I haven't seen any for sale in the LFS here before. They usually have the camel-back shrimp only, which look like peppermint. Peppermints don't have camel backs.

There are some peppermint shrimps found in ML ....

on whether they take a liking to aiptasia.........

I'm also thinking of obtaining a copperband to deal with my currently growing population of aiptasia..... only concern is getting them to start feeding in my reef seems to be a problem....

anyone to help..... with some instructions??

and yes, if i'm getting a copperband, what is a good size to buy??

[Morgan]

You have to get a big copperband or else it may not work....the fish IMO has to be more than 3" before they are able to tackle those big aiptasia.

Got my fish from yazid, it cleared away my few aiptasia within a few days. He trained the fish very well....to the extend of being very tame and can be hand feed with shrimps .