Joe's juice
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aztec reef
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Have you tryed CHEM-MARIN's Stop Aiptasia, Or some peppermint shrimp?
aztec reef
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The peppermints are more of a Hit or Miss thing, but most likely to Hit.(if not then they're still good to have). I don't know about the lion though. Is he well fed? how big is your tank?
shogun323
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Originally Posted by taznut
haven't done anything yet but they are getting out of control... i would love to get a peppermint shrimp but i heard they dont work all the time and i have a lion....
The Lion will dominate peppermints. At least I know my fuzzy dwarf will. I use Joes Juice nd Loveit. Alot of people just use boiling water and a syringe.
haven't done anything yet but they are getting out of control... i would love to get a peppermint shrimp but i heard they dont work all the time and i have a lion....
The Lion will dominate peppermints. At least I know my fuzzy dwarf will. I use Joes Juice nd Loveit. Alot of people just use boiling water and a syringe.
cjason3041
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i have never had to use joes...luckily, my peps have always worked
lovethesea
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Joe's made our neighbors explode. Made more problems. He got peppermints when more sprouted and they disapeared. We borrowed his peppermints and the 3 aptasia we had were gone within days. :happyfish
pangdonger
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Been up and running for three weeks now. Been looking for Aiptasia anemones, but I really don't know what they look like in the juvenile stage. Any pic's?
lovethesea
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are they all over or on just a few rocks?? If so, can you get the rock out without tearing apart the tank?
newtankman
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Ok so the peppermint shrimp will eat the common glass nuisance anemones, a.k.a the aiptasia.
But will they harm anything else, i.e soft corals, sponges, or other desirable anemones?
reefkprz
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Originally Posted by newtankman
Ok so the peppermint shrimp will eat the common glass nuisance anemones, a.k.a the aiptasia.
But will they harm anything else, i.e soft corals, sponges, or other desirable anemones?
they tend to eat yellow colonial polyps (they are related to aip.) but for the most part they are good shrimp to have.
Ok so the peppermint shrimp will eat the common glass nuisance anemones, a.k.a the aiptasia.
they tend to eat yellow colonial polyps (they are related to aip.) but for the most part they are good shrimp to have.
reefkprz
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Originally Posted by taznut
there is like one on almost every rock but there are like 50 on another... i would take that rock out but i got some xenia awhile back and it is doing really well and has attached its self to that rock...
I use pure lemon juice, on aip when I get them on a frag or chunk of rock.
I take a large feeding syring and fill it with the lemon juice. I then squirt about half of it onto the aip slowly, bathing it causing it to close up then I pull out on the plunger sucking the aip into the syring and break it free of the rock by scraping it sideways. I then remove it from the tank and squirt more where it was to ensure the bit left behind wont regrow. by bathing it really slowly before hand it kills anything that may break free when you remove it. I have accidently introduce aip a couple times and have yet to be infested. I prefer it over the Kalk method because that can swing your parameters fast if you have to kill a lot of them. also by removing the dead/dying aip there is no risk of getting an ammonia spike. because it doesnt rot in the tank.
there is like one on almost every rock but there are like 50 on another... i would take that rock out but i got some xenia awhile back and it is doing really well and has attached its self to that rock...
I use pure lemon juice, on aip when I get them on a frag or chunk of rock.
I take a large feeding syring and fill it with the lemon juice. I then squirt about half of it onto the aip slowly, bathing it causing it to close up then I pull out on the plunger sucking the aip into the syring and break it free of the rock by scraping it sideways. I then remove it from the tank and squirt more where it was to ensure the bit left behind wont regrow. by bathing it really slowly before hand it kills anything that may break free when you remove it. I have accidently introduce aip a couple times and have yet to be infested. I prefer it over the Kalk method because that can swing your parameters fast if you have to kill a lot of them. also by removing the dead/dying aip there is no risk of getting an ammonia spike. because it doesnt rot in the tank.
reefkprz
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Originally Posted by taznut
ok... will the lemon juice effect anything??? this sounds the best so far... unless i can find an LFS with joe's juice... where can i get a needle and syrine???
You dont want a needle syringe, you want a feeding syringe like used for birds, you can buy them at pet stores. The one I use is 35cc and has a rather large tip making it easy to suck the aip into it. I have never noticed an impact on anything, once the lemon juice wanders far as it mixes the buffering capacity of your water neutralizes it, then its just a small amountof organic waste that naturally breaks down. The biological input of 15cc's is about like one fish poop maybe less because its mostly H2O and citric acid that gets neutralized.
ok... will the lemon juice effect anything??? this sounds the best so far... unless i can find an LFS with joe's juice... where can i get a needle and syrine???
You dont want a needle syringe, you want a feeding syringe like used for birds, you can buy them at pet stores. The one I use is 35cc and has a rather large tip making it easy to suck the aip into it. I have never noticed an impact on anything, once the lemon juice wanders far as it mixes the buffering capacity of your water neutralizes it, then its just a small amountof organic waste that naturally breaks down. The biological input of 15cc's is about like one fish poop maybe less because its mostly H2O and citric acid that gets neutralized.