Damn Aiptasia

hanzo26

hanzo26

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I have tried to rid my tank of the stupid aiptasia anemones with joe's juice, but it is close to impossible to kill every one. The joe's juice works great, but what else can I do. How effective is a peppermint shrimp? What other method can I use to eliminate these stupid things?
 
jmick

jmick

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I get syringes from the local

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and use a kalk solution to inject and nuke them and it a very easy/successful way to get rid of them.
 
ninjamini

ninjamini

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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!
 
kholla12

kholla12

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I have used pepp shrimp and they ate all of mine.I have read they can be hit or miss and the sometimes only eat the small ones but they are so cheap.
 
hanzo26

hanzo26

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Can you usually get the Kalkwasser powder at the lfs? It sounds like it is similar to the Joe's Juice I have using. Joe's Juice works the same way and is very effective but the tiny bottle doesn't go far and at about $12 ea. kinda adds up.
 
ninjamini

ninjamini

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Yes LFS has it. Its a powder. MAke it into a paste and feed it to them then smear. It makes a mess in the tank. Turn off the power heads. Have sucksion ready to get the floating pieces. It will throw off you alk and ph. But since this is a new tank there should not be any corals.
 
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