Aptasia spreading!

[finland]

I have an aptasia anemone that is coming out of a hole in a peice of lr. I didn't want to get rid of it because it is on a rock that a real nice toadstool is firmly attached to. In fact the toadstool just recently split and now I have two on the rock. Tonight I noticed for the first time 3 new very small aptasia growing on the same rock. Any suggestions on getting rid of them without disturbing the toadstool. One of the new aptasia is only 1 inch away from baby toadstool and I don't want to take a chance of it getting stung

 

[byrself]

i've never had them, but i've heard that injecting them with boiling water works. got some other ways to. do a search and you could find some answers in old posts. hth, good luck.

 

[stacy]

You can also you a kalwasser calcium injection. Thats going to be my next step. I tried peppermint shrimp, but that didn't work well. They ate everything except the aptasia. I read a post here maybe a week or so ago that suggested using kalkwasser mix and injecting that into the aptasia.

 

[susiepan]

Finland
That is what happened to me also, and what I did was inject water that had been boiled into the little ones, be careful to make sure you get it right in the center so they die, and for the larger of them, I used that same boiling water, and put a pinch of Kalkwasser in it, drew it up into the syringe, and injected them twice, just to make sure...It didnt harm a thing, except the Aptasia...Try to get it fairly soon, as this does spread rather rapidly, and will eventually take over your tank if left untreated..
GL
~Susie