Help! Aptaisia Outbreak

[ocellaris_keeper]

OK - I have a 55 gallon tank with 80 lbs of LR., 4.5" LS - two power heads, a 300 Watt heater, a cheap filter runnign Chemi-pure carbon.
My water params are:
Temp 80-82 depending on winter/summer
Salinity .0225
Ph 8.1
Ammonia/Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
. I have 10-15 hermits/10-15 astrea snails, two serpent stars, three humbug damels and one ocellaris clown right now (my larger fish died when we lost power for three days during a storm).
I have a growing population of aptasia anemone's and it's really getting annoying - what should I do?
I've tried the racoon butterfly thing but it seems these guys are not too hardy. what else is there that'll work on this stuff?
Any advice will help!

 

[nas19320]

Peppermint shrimp or you can do hand-to-hand combat and use kalk paste.

 

[jillian ayers]

I heard squirting boiling water at it will help too.

 

[ocellaris_keeper]

Thanks for the suggestions - I'l try the shrimp again.

 

[daniel411]

Peppermint shrimp is almost a generic term for several small shrimp, not all of them eat aptasia.

 

[rbmount]

i used the marinade injector from a turkey cooker(larger,water dosen't cool down as fast),boiled water in microwave,and flooded mine with hot water and haven't seen one since.

 

[timsedwards]

Hi there,
Go into the Reef Forum and search for my tread on the Basics of Aiptasia. Everything is mentioned there
All the best,
Tim.

 

[thomas712]

timsedwards - Well Well Well... The prodical son returns, have a nice break? er ah .... Holiday?
Thomas

 

[thomas712]

ocellaris_keeper - Hit and miss with the pepermint shrimp but two of them worked great for me when I had a 55 with an outbreak of aptasia.
Thomas