Aptasia in my Zoas!

emm0909

Member
I just got some Zoa frags and one with about seven watermellons has a tiny aptasia in the middle. The three surrounding it have closed all up. Think I could pluck that aptasia out with som tweezers? Will a little aptasia killer affect the zoas?
 

redspot321

Member
The aptasia will not kill the polyps, just bug them and cause them to close up

I usually just pluck them off with a small razor or tweezers. Dont worry about damaging tha zoanthids, they are strong little buggers.
HTH
 
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tizzo

Guest
Joes juice will kill zoas but a lot has to land on it and it has to stay there for a while.
I purposely killed some zoas with JJ and I had to cover them twice. A thick blanket of the stuff, it looked like snow. I did it on purpose and it didn't kill all of them.
If you wanna get just the aiptasia, put some jj in a syringe, then put a tiny piece of meat in the end of the syringe. When the aiptasia "opens up" to accept the meat, shoot a tiny bit of JJ in it's mouth and he will die soon. If it gets on your zoas, just blow it off with a turkey baster.
 
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