Aiptasia anemones

[scarr105]

Are these good or bad? I have read they are bad and to inject hot water in to them to kill.

 

[jedi]

Bad.. will spread like wildfire.
You can do several things to get rid of them. joes juice will do the best on them. a natural way to rid the tank is adding peppermint shrimps, they will eat it up.
Jedi

 

[bigarn]

Originally Posted by scarr105
Are these good or bad? I have read they are bad and to inject hot water in to them to kill.
Aiptasias are bad ...... and injecting them with hot water is one way to kill them.

 

[teen]

actually it depends on where u buy ur live rock from, not all aiptasia is bad. the pacific aiptasia and glass anemopne are bad and will spread like weeds, but aiptasia from the gulf is good and imo should be kept.

 

[vicodin]

I thought they were cool at first. Now my tank is copletely F$*-## up with them. Take the advice I ignored. Kill them. Kill every last one before its to late. Pepermint Shrimp will help if you tank is good enough to support them.

 

[scarr105]

Is this one? 2 pictures of the same one. I only have 1 in my tank so far.

 

[vicodin]

Kill it. If you leave even 1 part of it in there it will grow back and spread. I've had to go as far as boiling some of the tips of my LR where the outbreak is the worst and can't dispose of them on the individual basis.

 

[ant]

Yours looks a little different than mine. I wish I would have got it out when I saw it moving across the rock but I wasn't sure. After I took the picture and downloaded it, I went back and it found a hole. Funny you asked this question. I've been doing a search the past couple of days to get rid of the two I found. I bought a peppermint shrimp yesterday. When I looked at my tank this morning there was no small apastasia and I thought Great! He ate it! Then later today I saw it out again, then just a while ago both the smaller and larger are gone. Can someone enlighten me? Good luck with yours. Ant.

 

[vicodin]

They start like that clear one and the as they mature they turn brown. Like the one previously pictured.

 

[ant]

The bigger one I had, which was three times the last picture, is almost all white. I can't get a picture of it because it's in a terrble spot. Is that the same thing?

 

[vicodin]

For some reason some of mine are clear and some are dark brown, and some have turned from clear to brown. I don't know what the cause is. I'm thinking the amout of food they get might have something to do with it. It's a guess though. No matter what color they are there trouble. Don't be like me and wait till it's to late. If only I had a time machine......

 

[scarr105]

So to get rid of them I need to get a needle and inject it with hot water or joes juice. Or do I just use something like a turkey baster and squirt hot water on to it.

 

[vicodin]

I've tried the turky baster way without luck. Inject them with the juice is the way to go.

 

[salty cheese]

Originally Posted by scarr105
So to get rid of them I need to get a needle and inject it with hot water or joes juice. Or do I just use something like a turkey baster and squirt hot water on to it.
I use kalkwasser paste to kill them if I can not take the rock out of the tank. I use the syringe and the attachment from my Salifert test kit to "feed" the paste to the aiptasia.
Some pics for referance.

 

[ant]

Thanks for the pics Salty Cheese. I also heard that you can use Super Glue gel to cover them. Problem with taking the rock out is that I can't find them... Ant.

 

[mudplayerx]

I had an aptasia next to my galaxea coral and the galaxea stung the hell out of it and killed it

 

[gwiley]

Everyone always says and agrees that anemones are very hard to care for in almost any tank and that strong lighting and perfect water conditions are a most. So is it not wierd that aiptasia (glass anemones) grow and reproduce so easily in every tank, no matter what kind of lighting no matter how off the chart the water paremeters are aiptasia seems to keep on keeping on. You can't even kill them easily. the things are mutants that are one day going to take over the world.

is this not the wierdest thing ever..or is it just me

 

[ant]

Gwiley...here, here!! :hilarious

 

[phatcam]

if that the same thing as a curly-q anenome??

 

[salty cheese]

Originally Posted by Gwiley
Everyone always says and agrees that anemones are very hard to care for in almost any tank and that strong lighting and perfect water conditions are a most. So is it not wierd that aiptasia (glass anemones) grow and reproduce so easily in every tank, no matter what kind of lighting no matter how off the chart the water paremeters are aiptasia seems to keep on keeping on. You can't even kill them easily. the things are mutants that are one day going to take over the world.

is this not the wierdest thing ever..or is it just me
The best analogy I can come up with, would be the difference between orchids and dandelions.
Originally Posted by PhatCam
if that the same thing as a curly-q anenome??
No, they are 2 diffrent types of anemone.