aiptasia / glass anemones

[rstiles]

any suggestions on getting rid of these pest ? I can't put a butterfly fish in tank as the rock is loaded with desirable invertebrates,the live stock in tank is saddle back clown,yellow tang,dwarf hawkfish ,bubble tip anemones,mushrooms,xenia thanks for any help

 

[capschamp]

i would say add peppermint shrimp, but its not a guarantee tthat they would eat the aiptasia, and they may nibble on your xenia. There are aiptasia eating nudibranches, but I dont know where you can get them. Another way I have seen to eliminate them is to take a good size pinch of aquarium salt, and let it go right in top of the aiptasia. you could also get a syringe and inject it with boiling water or kalk mix. There is also this stuff callled joes juice that people say has worked also. you could do a search on these boards for any of those methods and it should bring up some good threads that will help.

 

[greatfullreefer]

inject them with kalk paste or liquid calcium.

 

[cgpuffers]

*Trys To Understand Lionfish12* Anyways, Inject Each One/ Colony with Kalk They'll All die Muahahahaha!

 

[bill f]

Joes Juices works well

 

[cgpuffers]

Joes Juice Is Just Plain Kalk:yes:

 

[fishnerd1]

The Kalk thing works, but they will just come back in new places a couple of weeks later. I just bought a peppermint shrimp so I hope that will do the trick.

 

[duke13]

I bought 3 peppermints about a month hoping that they would do the trick. And yes, they actually pulled through and wiped out the aiptasia population. Lucky first try I guess.

 

[bill f]

Funny you said that about Joes Juice. Everything was fine for a month and then three more popped out. I'll try the shrimp.

 

[jasonk]

anybody every try injecting them with lemon juice. a guy on a different board told me to do that. i tried it and it worked really good. it was cheap, easy, and didn't do a thing to the levels in my tank.

 

[nas19320]

Originally posted by CGPuffers
Joes Juice Is Just Plain Kalk:yes:
How did you find that out?