Glass Anemones

[RoyalT]

What is the quickest way to take these down? They have started popping up.

[RyanG]

You talking about Aptasia? Several ways
SYRINGE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
Joes Juice
Lemon Juice
Boiling Water
Air
Vinegar
(Syringe can be medical or marinade injector)
PASTES MADE FROM:
Kalkwasser
Salt(Use sparingly can raise salinity)
ANIMALS
Peppermint Shrimp
Copperband Butterfly(Difficult to Keep Typically)

[Bifferwine]

Ryan's got the list down. The best natural way is peppermint shrimp. The only other way's I've used is kalkwasser and salt paste, and both have worked well.

[RoyalT]

Thank you.

[RoyalT]

I would like to get a copperband butterfly, but what are the cautions when housing them in a reef tank?!? I know they feather dusters, but what else.

[RyanG]

Welcome Yote keeps one maybe he can help you out, I think a lot of them starve to death, not a very hardy fish. I think they can be very teritorial and they might be nippy as well.

[yote]

Originally Posted by RoyalT

I would like to get a copperband butterfly, but what are the cautions when housing them in a reef tank?!? I know they feather dusters, but what else.

Heres my take on copperbands.This isnt fact,its just my experience.
They are a lot mandrines.If you have a mature tank with a lot of rock and an over abundance of live pods,they will do fairly well.They have to have peaceful tank mates and stable parameters.
I've had mine for a little over 5 months now and he's fat as hawg and eats like one too.

[RoyalT]

so in other words peppermint shrimp is the way to go. my tank is not established enough. I am only about to hit the 6 month mark, or else the Kalkwasser. Explain what that is. I am not familiar with it.

[RyanG]

I would use a syringe myself, shrimps can be sensitive to changes in water conditions and purity.

[bjohanson1234]

I swear by peppermint shrimp. They are inexpensive (about 5 bucks a peice at my LFS), are a natural way of dealing with these pests. Plus they look cool scurrying around the tank

Brian