Aspia Animonee, HELP!!!

[turtlegirl933]

Help, Aspia animonee! I live two hours from any place that carries some thing I can destroy it with, what do I do?

 

[toeknee]

I dont think it is an emergency but it is best to get it out of your tank.
Correct term is Aptasia and I think you can inject lemon juice into it

 

[perk3211]

yeah, we used that to get rid of our majano anenomes

 

[nano reefer]

joes juice is the way to go. U can also use boiling water in a syringe and shoot it at the aptasia.

 

[redinator]

If you have a lot try a Copperband Butterfly. If a few a Peppermint Shrimp should do. Joes Juice is another option.

 

[alix2.0]

you can also inject it with a kalkwasser paste, if you have any of that laying around.

 

[tferrante]

Mrs Wages (pickling lime) mixed in a high concentrate and injected into it does the trick.

 

[hunted]

I used my elegance coral to kill my aiptasia. I just took the elegance by it's base and pressed its soft tissue against the aiptasia. It never opened up any more. If you have an elegance coral.

 

[hunted]

Originally Posted by Toeknee
I dont think it is an emergency but it is best to get it out of your tank.
Correct term is Aptasia and I think you can inject lemon juice into it
It's actually AIPTASIA

 

[toeknee]

Anything is better then Aspia sounds like asthma

 

[hunted]

Originally Posted by Toeknee
Anything is better then Aspia sounds like asthma
true

 

[keri]

Originally Posted by Hunted
I used my elegance coral to kill my aiptasia. I just took the elegance by it's base and pressed its soft tissue against the aiptasia. It never opened up any more. If you have an elegance coral.
<<<shudder>>> creepy lol, but creative!

 

[ninjamini]

I hade a few of these and some corn anemonees too. I used Kalkwasser powder mixed with water. I used the plastic measurer (it is used to measure .5ml water) that came with one of the test kits. Put it right up to its mouth and slowly squirt out the kalk. It closes up around the tip and bingo! I've got ya. Keep going till its empty.
Now be warned doing this in the tank can get calk everywhere. IT tends to float around. Here is some tips:
1. Shut off the flow. LAst thing ypu need is water flow pushing the kalk over to your candycane coral.
2. Be ready with airline tubing. I create a syphin with the tubing to suckup the peices of kalk that float away. This can take awhile. It does make a mess.
3. Be ready with some fresh salt water to replace the water you syphon off.
4. rinse-repeat. If you got them you will get them again. Thats why they are the pest that they are. Have fun - You didn't think that keeping a salt water tank was going to be easy!

 

[kat 4]

I just go to the LFS and get Blue Vet "aiptasia control". Works great, it's easy, has everything you need with it and it's over and done with in a couple seconds....the more I keep MY hands out of the tank, the better..!

 

[gr8unknown1]

Just get 3-4 peppermint shrimp. It will take about a week but they will kill all of the aptasia except maybe one that they will leave with the hope that it will multiply into more food.

 

[earlybird]

I have a 29g and last week found a tiny aptasia that must have gotten in from a new coral purchase. I bought 1 small peppermint shrimp two days later. It took him about a week but he found it and it is gone.

 

[new2salt1]

Originally Posted by Hunted
I used my elegance coral to kill my aiptasia. I just took the elegance by it's base and pressed its soft tissue against the aiptasia. It never opened up any more. If you have an elegance coral.
How old is your elegance? Pics? I own one as well, Im a big fan