Issue killing aiptasia

[fishy7]

I can not reach the bottom of my tank and I have some aiptasia that I need to kill. I have a seasquirt but it leaks more JJ in the tank then allowed. Any have this issue and if so how do you kill them? I need a long syringe.

 

[fishfryer]

just squirt boiling water thru turkey paster at asptia kills instantly.

 

[fishy7]

Originally Posted by fishfryer
just squirt boiling water thru turkey paster at asptia kills instantly.
Tried that but it comes back. :thinking:

 

[rngr175]

there is a place on the net (inland aquatics) that sells the nudibranch that eats aptasia.

 

[fishy7]

cool thanks for the info!

 

[wangotango]

Originally Posted by Rngr175
there is a place on the net (inland aquatics) that sells the nudibranch that eats aptasia.
berghias are really small and really arent that effective unless you have a lot of them. try joe's juice. its like $8 a bottle and has a very good success rate as long as you "feed" the anemone and not puncture it.
-Justin

 

[aztec reef]

Originally Posted by FISHY7
Tried that but it comes back. :thinking:
kalkwasser injection works instantly.you just have to have like a pasty mixture of kalkwasser. injject the middle of disk of anenome and it will shribble and die, by the next day it will be a gonner.

 

[reefreak29]

all these are good methods i just wanted to post another one , i dont know if your tank is right for shrimp but peppermints did it for me

 

[goldenboy]

Originally Posted by FISHY7
I can not reach the bottom of my tank and I have some aiptasia that I need to kill. I have a seasquirt but it leaks more JJ in the tank then allowed. Any have this issue and if so how do you kill them? I need a long syringe.

Get taller friends.

 

[goldenboy]

chem marin makes something called stop aiptasia. It's without a doubt the best stuff on the market. Unlike Joe's juice, which just breaks up the aiptasia, only for it to come back a week later in the same spot, this stuff kills it fast. You must use a needle syringe though. The best part about it is that it's made from hot peppers, and you can use it right next to corals, and not damage anything.

 

[herkemer]

We had a bad apstasia problem and i got sick of injecting them so we bought six peppermint shrimp and within a week they cleaned them all out and I haven't seen an apstasia in over a year. Plus the peppermints are a hoot to watch at feeding time.

 

[fishy7]

Thanks for all the suggestions

 

[tacoma38]

my peppermint shrimp hide all the time,so they are not working for me!! I have four in a 75 gal.so what up with that?

 

[ashley123hot]

i bought 4 peperment shrimps..yes they killed all the aiptasia's but then i watched them eat mushrooms and my huge feather dusters.....

 

[dennis210]

You have had a great many responses already, but my two cents are this:
peppermint shrimp usually control smaller specimens and keep from spreading.
Once you have larger one's then use a product mentioned above "aptasia control" it really works great!

 

[fishy7]

Thanks all for the suggestions:
I ordered another 5 pepps from SWF to contron the new opoulation and killing the rest with Joes.... I swuirted the heck out of one large one the other night with a boiling water/jj mixture. Waiting to see if he will be killed or not.