Is this also aiptasia?

zoie2

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It has SLOWLY emerged. It looks like my yellow polyps, but not yellow. Hope these are good pictures of it. It is growing right behind my toad stool.

 

m0nk

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Oh yeah, that's aiptasia. Boiling water might be the best bet there since it's so close to coral, not sure that Joe's Juice would be a good idea. Just boil water and squirt it with a syringe at the spot. You can always try to cut it out too, with a knife, I did that once cause I couldn't do the other trick without damaging neighboring coral.
 

zoie2

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When it dies will it raise any of my levels? Should I do a water change right after? I actually just did a water change, but I could do another one if it would be better.
Oh, did I mention my tank is only 12 gal? Sometimes this matters and sometimes it doesn't.
 

m0nk

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Well, I don't know about that, given the size of the tank. Maybe just plan on doing another one in a few days instead of waiting till the next time you'd regularly do it. The aiptaisia will melt, which means you can't exactly collect it out like other dead inhabitants, but I don't know that it will cause that much of an impact on your levels. My guess is that with it "melting", something will end up in the water to affect things, but not a whole lot like a dead snail.
 

blazin2k6

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Yeah looked like the same thing i have in my tank. I have 3 of em. Two attached into crevices in LR and other on a Zoa Frag rock i got other day. I cant even find that one anymore though it was so tiny. I injected one yesterday with Aiptasia Control and it withered away but this morning i still see its base in the LR. Sorry to invade your thread.
 

paintballer768

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Originally Posted by m0nk
Oh yeah, that's aiptasia. Boiling water might be the best bet there since it's so close to coral, not sure that Joe's Juice would be a good idea. Just boil water and squirt it with a syringe at the spot. You can always try to cut it out too, with a knife, I did that once cause I couldn't do the other trick without damaging neighboring coral.
By squirt, do you mean hypodermic needle or syringe in the general area?
 

zoie2

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How long will it take to work? I squirt them with boiling water and they definately shrunk down, but were back a couple hours later.
 

florida joe

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I have used Joe’s juice and got a ton of it on my soft corals and they were fine I think others here have done the same and no ill effects if your using boiling water you need to make sure you use enough of it
 

chilwil84

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with the boiling water trick you want to use a real syringe and inject the water into the aptasia. it sometimes takes a couple tries to kill it. worked better than joes juice for me (joes only killed the monster ones) it is a good trick when you only have a couple of them cause water cools off fast so it can be tedious if you have a tankful
 
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