Aptasia problem

[sailsup]

Hey everyone, just got back from a two week dive trip to Jamaca.
Aptasia is starting to propagate rapidly in my 29 gal HQI bio cube. Any thoughts on how to get them under control? I was thinking of purchasing a blue laser, but do not know if that will work thru the acrylic. :frustrat:

 

[315hottuna61]

Everyone seems to agree on Aiptasia X, it is reef safe and knocks the shit out of aiptasia.

 

[chichimom79]

Good luck with your aiptasia. Can I ask you to clarify about the blue laser? I have not heard about this.

 

[Amba]

I have an arctic from wickedlasers. It will kill aiptasia, but aiptasia X is better still. It refracts weird through the glass and water especially since water is moving. Also hard to reach with the laser. Check out this site, I have a few toys from here:

Green Laser Pointer, Blue, Red, Purple Lasers | Wicked Lasers

 

[Amba]

I should add that it takes a lot longer to kill an aiptasia with a laser than aiptasia x. I use the S3 Spyder III Arctic, 1W which is the strongest one they sell. Be careful it will obliterate your corals.

 

[yvr]

When I see Aiptasias I inject Tropic Marin Elimi-Aiptas directly into
the stalk near the base of the anemone instead near the
mouth/tentacles. I find that I get a much better kill rate that way.

 

[Bifferwine]

I've tried all sorts of things, and Aiptasia X is definitely the best that I have used.

 

[sailsup]

Thanks everyone, I will look into where I can get Aitasia X

 

[Shane1]

I tried Aptasia X and boiling lemon juice as well, but they would allways come back. I ended up getting a Perppermint Shrimp and it took care of the issue with the quickness and my tank has been Aptasia free since.

 

[315hottuna61]

Peppermint shrimp are hit or miss - you were one of the lucky ones

 

[smdoty]

I have gotten some small aiptasia as hitch hikers here and there. My two peppermints have wiped them out with a quickness. They also nip at my xenia though, the little turds.

 

[315hottuna61]

Peppermints are cool but they are extremely camera shy lol !

 

[Northstar24]

I've been battling a Aipstasia problem for a while now, my overflows are full of the damn things, and they're all over the place on the rocks in my tank. Is Aipstaisa X really the best solution for them? It seems like for every one of these things I'm able to kill with Aipstaisa X two more of them appear the next morning.

I can use a whole bottle of the stuff and I still have aipstaisa that hasn't been treated

 

[Shane1]

I've been battling a Aipstasia problem for a while now, my overflows are full of the damn things, and they're all over the place on the rocks in my tank. Is Aipstaisa X really the best solution for them? It seems like for every one of these things I'm able to kill with Aipstaisa X two more of them appear the next morning.

I can use a whole bottle of the stuff and I still have aipstaisa that hasn't been treated

That was happening to me as well. I would get one with the juice then it would come back or another one would pop up. The new ones were to small to juice or in a place where I couldnt get a good shot at it. Get yourself a peppermint shrimp and let it graze on the suckers till they are all gone. Or get a coulple of them just to make sure.

 

[OceanCrazy]

Peppermint shrimp got all of mine.Try that.

 

[Bifferwine]

If you are going to go with peppermint shrimp, be sure to get a bunch (like half a dozen or so). There's only a 50/50 shot that they will eat them, so getting more ups your chances.

 

[Northstar24]

Peppermint shrimp have a nasty habit of becoming a snack for my Melanurus wrasse, which is one of my wife's favorite fish...

 

[crappie]

a few years ago i bought several hundred pounds of live rock covered in aptasia. beleive it or not this is how i killed it. i would boil water and put the boiling water in a syringe and inject it right into the base of the aptasia. it is one shot one kill. and quite gratifying.

 

[crappie]

another solution is to but a berghia nudibranch. these slugs whole purpose in life is to eat aptasia. once the aptasia is gone they die of starvation.

 

[Cheeser]

if u can single em out. i put lemon juice in a shot glass and microwave for 20 secconds and inject it above the mouth of the aptasia.....otherwise i would just use aiptaisa x. its a sure shot.