Help! Aiptasia on my Coral

percy-cin

New Member
Today we picked up some coral for our nano. It's green star polyp. We bought it for half price and thought it was a bargain. There were a few aiptasia on the rock, but he used some liquid to "disenigrate" them off. We got home and put it in our tank and suddenly the little aiptasia are sprouting up all over the rock. At first we thought maybe they weren't aiptasia because they're kinda purplish and they have rings going around the tentacles. What do we do? We have a peppermint shrimp, but is it enough? Will it definitely kill our coral? and is there any way to kill it without killing the coral?


 

nwdyr

Active Member
sometimes I get lucky with a tweezers, but you have to be really fast!! other then that the peppermint is your best bet. Good luck!
 

michaeltx

Moderator
lime water injection works well to along with joes juice. you can pick up a needle at any vets office and the lime at any grocery store. or the joes juice at most LFS's just inject them.
tweezers have one problem they can leave tissue behind and that tissue will regrow a new anemone quickly and spread quicker IME>
Mike
 

percy-cin

New Member
With the Joe's Juice, will it harm anything else in my tank? I have a blennie, the peppermint shrimp, a true perc, snails, crabs, and the green star polyps. Also, are they definitely aiptasia?
 

michaeltx

Moderator
from the looks of it yes can you flip it over and get a good shot of the back. its deffinatley some sort of anemone but weither apistia or majanoe I am not sure of.
Joes juice is injected into the anemone if it gets on or is injected into other corals yes it can kill them so you have to be careful.
mike
 

percy-cin

New Member
These are the best pics I can get. I tried placing the infested rock directly in front of the den where my peppermint shrimp stays since he doesn't wonder far from his den. Also, from looking it up online, it looks like the tentacles on the mojeno end in sort of a bulb as where the aiptasia end in a point like the ones in my tank. The coral is so covered with it that I don't think there's anyway to get rid of it without hurting the coral. At the fish store, the guy put something on them to kill them, but he didn't inject it. The few he could reach did actually start to disintegrate, but not completely and I'm worried that when he tried to shred them off, he probably just broke it apart and created more.
. I'm really mad. It just seems like we get lies every time we buy anything. He said that it wasn't harmful to the other fish and the only reason people don't like it is because it's ugly. They're more interested in the sale than anything.
One other question, As you can see in the picture, the green star polyps are, for lack of a better word, hiding. He said that it will look like that for a few days and then perk back up, but I'm worried that what he put on the aiptasia's may have harmed the coral. Any thoughts? I appreciate all of the help and suggestions.
 

natclanwy

Active Member
Yes yours definetly appear to be aiptasia. I think you are probably OK, I actually tried to kill GSP with Joes Juice once and wasn't successful the GSP just closed up for a few days and then opened up again and proceeded to continue to spread like a weed. Joes juice isn't harmful to anything in your tank unless it is applied directly to it with GSP being the exception apparently.
 
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