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mx#28

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Originally Posted by Smellslikefish
Does sp stand for small polyped? Because I was told my T-5 lighting wasnt enough to sustain sp's.
'sp.' stands for 'species'. 'Ricordea' would be the genus and they are pretty adaptable to high/low lighting.
 

mcbdz

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Originally Posted by Smellslikefish
This appeared in my tank one day.
Nice

I am a little concerned about what the others on that rock are though. Are they apistasia? Do you have a pic of the whole rock?
 
They are aptaisia, I just finished putting boiling water on them. I'm also going ot buy a Copperband to help control the spread. Have any other ideas that would help that problem?
 

paintballer768

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Just to let you know, the Copperband butterflyfish will eat your ricordea too! Get some pickling lime or Joe's Juice, and squirt it right near the base of those aiptasia and theyll die. Very nice hitchhiker too!
 

dogstar

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IME, its highly unlikely a CBBF will eat the Ric. Might not even eat the aptaisia. A CBBF is not an easy fish to keep and if you have not researched keeping that fish then please dont get one just for apt. control.
 
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bonita69

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Originally Posted by Razor Vampire
Joe's Juice!
awesome stuff works in seconds I just used it on some the other day, I know this sounds bad but I love watching these little guys fry with Joe's Juice!
 

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!
 
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