You think you have aiptasia? Look here.
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DendroGuru
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how bout lemon juice? anyone try that? does that pollute the water in the tank? and i thought i had bad luck with this hobbie. i've got a sh*t load of them thriving all over the tank!!!
lcstorc
Well-Known Member
Didn't do anything for mine though a lot of people swear by it.
I just hit the tank with Aiptasia X and so far so good. The one thing I was really worried about was the ones that were right at the base of some of my leathers. It didn't hurt them at all but the aiptasia are gone. Hopefully they won't come back but there are still a couple in the overflow I can't reach so they probably will.
I just hit the tank with Aiptasia X and so far so good. The one thing I was really worried about was the ones that were right at the base of some of my leathers. It didn't hurt them at all but the aiptasia are gone. Hopefully they won't come back but there are still a couple in the overflow I can't reach so they probably will.
Jess
Member
I'm really at a loss with my 24. The aiptasia are getting HUGE, and I guess my next step is ordering the beghia's. Not cheap, but AptX just is not cutting it. It's such a bummer, I'm not even excited to come home and see my nano anymore. I'm terrified of feedings now, so it seems they are getting far and few between.
Very sad.
Very sad.
1ofManyNguyens
Member
Juvenile peppermints normally stay away but if you get an adult (tank raised are normally bred feeding on aiptasia) they seem to go after it a lot more.
I went the unheard of way for a reef......butterflys. I know don't cringe, but it was a last resort. I have a 375g that hasd hundreds, much too large to reach all the pests with joe's juice or aptasia-x. I tried peppermints and my hawk fish thought they were great, I think he even asked me for more please. Went the bergia route, with no result. I have a worthless copperband for years now who wouldn't touch the stuff. So as a last resort I added a pearlscale and a raccoon butterfly and gone. They even taught the copperband to eat it finally. I wouldn't recommend this route, as it is now hit an miss as to what corals I can add, but for the most part they leave them alone. I have more problems with an evil domino damsel bothering my corals than the butterflys. I still have aptasia pop up now and then in the tank, but if they can get to them they're toast. I move rock occassionally so they can get the aptasia between them and they are gone within a few minutes.
squidy
Member
Why is it every time I find a new critter and get all excited on to do a little research and find out it’s a nuisance? I never get good hitchhikers damn it!:cry1: I just found one of these today and of course I have been ALL excited. I don’t even know where the little punk came from. I haven’t added anything new to my tank for a while.
well I'm new and sorry to say I have one of them growing in my tank and I was excited b/c I thought it was a feather duster? Any advise? Just get the shrimp and try that for a while or chemicals I really don't like to put them in the tank I worry that it will affect the tank?
next
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I picked up some Aiptasia courtesy of some new live rock. I went to my LFS and picked up a Peppermint and in the course of 2 nights he's been a mad man eating every piece in sight.
Before I bought the Peppermint I learned there are more than one type or just imposters and not all eat the pesky Aiptasia. The Lysmata wurdemanni is the real guy.
Before I bought the Peppermint I learned there are more than one type or just imposters and not all eat the pesky Aiptasia. The Lysmata wurdemanni is the real guy.
fishmama67
Member
Why is it every time I find a new critter and get all excited on to do a little research and find out it’s a nuisance? I never get good hitchhikers damn it! I just found one of these today and of course I have been ALL excited. I don’t even know where the little punk came from. I haven’t added anything new to my tank for a while.
__________________Oh BABY ! Do I hear you! I am so glad someone else said it too! Seems like every time I turn around, I have a "bad guy" show up. I get all happy because I think it is some new "good" critter. Then I get a pic andc post and SHAZAM! find out I have another "baddie". Holy ****ake mushrooms! Well, I guess I do have one "goodie". He is this little tiny Bright orange feather duster but wouldn't ya know it?! He's on the same rock as a truckload of colonial Hyroids (which I ALSO got all excited about!) Anyway, now I have to try and get rid of those little fatherless children and not kill my new sweetie! NUTS and RATS and BOTHER!
I also have a "lovely" aiptasia campin' out on the same rock so I gotta get that first. I use some stuff called "Aiptasia Control" from Blue vet by Blue Life. Seems to kick tushy in the Aiptasia department but I have only had a few (that tapping sound is me knockin' on wood) that I had to treat so there is that. I last treated about two months ago and onkly just have a couple now. One is about 1.5 inches tall and the other two are almost invisible they are so little. Let you know how the Mrs. Wages works on the hyrdios after the weekend when I do my WC.
Luck to all!
__________________Oh BABY ! Do I hear you! I am so glad someone else said it too! Seems like every time I turn around, I have a "bad guy" show up. I get all happy because I think it is some new "good" critter. Then I get a pic andc post and SHAZAM! find out I have another "baddie". Holy ****ake mushrooms! Well, I guess I do have one "goodie". He is this little tiny Bright orange feather duster but wouldn't ya know it?! He's on the same rock as a truckload of colonial Hyroids (which I ALSO got all excited about!) Anyway, now I have to try and get rid of those little fatherless children and not kill my new sweetie! NUTS and RATS and BOTHER!
I also have a "lovely" aiptasia campin' out on the same rock so I gotta get that first. I use some stuff called "Aiptasia Control" from Blue vet by Blue Life. Seems to kick tushy in the Aiptasia department but I have only had a few (that tapping sound is me knockin' on wood) that I had to treat so there is that. I last treated about two months ago and onkly just have a couple now. One is about 1.5 inches tall and the other two are almost invisible they are so little. Let you know how the Mrs. Wages works on the hyrdios after the weekend when I do my WC.
Luck to all!
drwellness
New Member
I have to say I'm not impressed with the Aiptasia X... it SEEMS to work with maybe a couple shots on the more hardy sprouts.. but I always seem to have more little ones pop up all over the tank regardless of how I get those little buggers with the X... I've used kalk paste.. seems just as effective... little harder to work with.. esp. with a tiny hypo needle..
I think the most effective I've found so far is to take the rock out of the water and then squirt it with lemon juice.. and let it sit out for a minute or so.. and then if possible I inject the stem of the aiptasia with some more lemon juice.. then put it back in.. they seem to go bye bye that way...
No luck with the peppermints b/c of a hungry snowflake eel... expensive gourmet meal for him!
but alas.. the battle against aiptasia goes on....
I think the most effective I've found so far is to take the rock out of the water and then squirt it with lemon juice.. and let it sit out for a minute or so.. and then if possible I inject the stem of the aiptasia with some more lemon juice.. then put it back in.. they seem to go bye bye that way...
No luck with the peppermints b/c of a hungry snowflake eel... expensive gourmet meal for him!
but alas.. the battle against aiptasia goes on....
Ssullivan
Member
i dont think so, because your poising them with acid, Kalk, and all
I heard the best aptaisia story a few months ago, this guy goes to his LPS and they were tearing down their display tank and had these cool anemone's so he asked what they were and the people didn't know but offered to sell them to him for $10.00 each.... He bought them.
I identified and warned him about aptaisa and told him to go get his money back but he likes it and is keeping it. Lol I told him they will take over but he is holding his ground, to each their own I suppose.
Dave I think this guy took your advice cause it is the main attraction in his tank, I got a laugh out of it, if he like them that is all that matters.
Eric
I identified and warned him about aptaisa and told him to go get his money back but he likes it and is keeping it. Lol I told him they will take over but he is holding his ground, to each their own I suppose.
Dave I think this guy took your advice cause it is the main attraction in his tank, I got a laugh out of it, if he like them that is all that matters.
Eric