aiptasa

[say]

What is aiptasa and how do you get rid of it. I bought some new live rock Saturday and when I got it home and had it curing in a bucket.... I noticed that it has one polyp of aiptasa on it.
How do you get rid of it...
and actually..... what is it??

 

[steelgluer]

1 teaspoon mrs wages pickling lime 2 tablespoons tap water heat in microwave 40 seconds let cool get a syringe from ink refill kit. Then shoot a tiny bit on it.

Works great

 

[littleliza]

peppermint shrimp will also eat it if you'd like to go that route. Mine ate up every last bit.

 

[millerman]

mt pepemint shrimp ate my smaller one but for the larger one im going to have to get some joe juice......or the shrimp may just not have found it yet.

 

[bawood]

I found camel shrimp eat them too.
The small ones were the first ones to go, but eventually the shrimp got them all.
He also got my q-tip sponge...

 

[alm502]

If you want to get rid of Aptasia fast, easy and chaep, get some Joe's Juice. It runs around $7 - $8 that will last a LONG time. It is easy to use and works great. I even read one review of it where they treated Aptasia on a rock that had yellow polyps all around and not a single ployp was lost.
The best thing about it is that you apply it directly to the Aptasia, not the whole tank.
I used to get rid of some in my tank that I picked up on some stuff from a local coral shop. Worked first time and no issues.