aiptaisa or not?????

[johnnyd]

i have these little white flower looking things growing on my live rock. this tank is only about 3 weeks old. they are too small for a pic and prob wont show up. they have a stem, then a round bulb with several tentacals at the ends which look like the anemones. there are about 1-2 mm in size very small. are they some type of flower or somthing?

 

[johnnyd]

ttt

 

[travis89]

Do they look like these? https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/305105/pictures-of-aiptasia-anemone-anyone
If so they are aiptasia.

 

[johnnyd]

thanks for the reply. idk there really small ill try to get a pic up. there white or clear and look like possibly baby aptasia

 

[patandlace]

They sound like aiptasia. But a picture would be helpfull to say for sure.

 

[bonita69]

here is a closer look at those little #@%$ ers,
Does it look like this?

 

[davmul]

I think i may have the same thing. In my tank they are tiny, white, translucent and sticking to the glass. I have also seen them in the water column and they appear to swim by pulsing like a jelly fish. I have been removing the ones that stick to the glass, but they are too small to notice on the rocks.

 

[errattiq]

Those are definitely aiptasia anemones/glass anemones..... Be wary of those because they grow and spread FAST! So fast in fact that I did some research on them...Don't pluck them off because any little pieces left floating around will regenrate and cause an outbreak. You can use a syringe with a needle and inject lemon juice into their stalk when they are open, I heard that's a good way to kill them and not affect PH... But good luck trying to catch them open lol. I broke down and took my live rock with them on it out of the water and dowsed them with boiling water and they melted right off. Unfortunately so did some of my good algae, but the temporary corraline sacrifice was well worth not having a tank full of coral/fish killing ugly aiptaisa....Good luck
-Josh

 

[michaeltx]

Originally Posted by davmul
http:///forum/post/2459458
I think i may have the same thing. In my tank they are tiny, white, translucent and sticking to the glass. I have also seen them in the water column and they appear to swim by pulsing like a jelly fish. I have been removing the ones that stick to the glass, but they are too small to notice on the rocks.
those that you descride sound more like hydroids than apistia anemones.
apistia anemones do not move by perpulsion
Mike

 

[johnnyd]

ya well there like 2mm big can barley see them. prob woulndt show up in a pic. but i lokked today theres still several of them but a lot of them are gone. maybe my coralbeauty and peppermint shrimp ate some?

 

[ninjamini]

I hade a few of these and some corn anemonees too. I used Kalkwasser powder mixed with water. I used the plastic measurer (it is used to measure .5ml water) that came with one of the test kits. Put it right up to its mouth and slowly squirt out the kalk. It closes up around the tip and bingo! I've got ya. Keep going till its empty.
Now be warned doing this in the tank can get calk everywhere. IT tends to float around. Here is some tips:
1. Shut off the flow. LAst thing ypu need is water flow pushing the kalk over to your candycane coral.
2. Be ready with airline tubing. I create a syphin with the tubing to suckup the peices of kalk that float away. This can take awhile. It does make a mess.
3. Be ready with some fresh salt water to replace the water you syphon off.
4. rinse-repeat. If you got them you will get them again. Thats why they are the pest that they are. Have fun - You didn't think that keeping a salt water tank was going to be easy!

 

[ninjamini]

I hade a few of these and some corn anemonees too. I used Kalkwasser powder mixed with water. I used the plastic measurer (it is used to measure .5ml water) that came with one of the test kits. Put it right up to its mouth and slowly squirt out the kalk. It closes up around the tip and bingo! I've got ya. Keep going till its empty.
Now be warned doing this in the tank can get calk everywhere. IT tends to float around. Here is some tips:
1. Shut off the flow. LAst thing ypu need is water flow pushing the kalk over to your candycane coral.
2. Be ready with airline tubing. I create a syphin with the tubing to suckup the peices of kalk that float away. This can take awhile. It does make a mess.
3. Be ready with some fresh salt water to replace the water you syphon off.
4. rinse-repeat. If you got them you will get them again. Thats why they are the pest that they are. Have fun - You didn't think that keeping a salt water tank was going to be easy!