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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.

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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 :huh:

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.

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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.

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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 :huh:

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... :D

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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.

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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......... :blink:

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?? :erm:

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

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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 :lol:.

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