sharkbait9
Active Member
Occasionally I would find a couple aiptasia in my tanks and deal with them accordingly. Using various products and homemade concoctions like Joe‘s Juice, lemon juice or boiling hot ro/di water or kalk paste or kalk paste cut with Ro/Di water to get a better draw and injection with a syringe. I even used garlic trying to find a way to deal with these pest known as aiptasia.
It appeared that the treatments works, or so we thought. The biggest problem with aforementioned treatments was that utilization of a syringe, not a common tool found in the hobby, let alone in most states are syringes easily obtained without doctors orders and or prescriptions.
I, however was able to get my hands on a couple of everyday IM needles to use for the aiptasia injections.
A week or two later after treatments we would see a little cluster of babies starting to grow in a different area and again we would treat deal. It seemed this was just life with reef tanks. We would treat the problem area and it would be done. Add a new rock or coral colony and we would be dealing with the problem again.
I Recently introduced a couple of frag plugs to our tank and noticed the plug had an aiptasia on it, so I went and got my tools need to remove the pest. As I injected the aiptasia and I watch it spit this real quick burst of white. Not thinking anything of it other then maybe it was trying to spit out the lemon juice shortly thereafter it started wilt away. Problem solved once again. Not so. In the picture you can see the cluster of babies that started to grow in an area that never had aiptasia before. The cluster of baby aiptasia were at an angle that was hard to get a good look at and see just where I was sticking the needle. Not wanting to inject one of the xenia that was growing in the area and being the rock was to big to remove I was in a for difficult time to treat these pest.
I was introduced to a new product called aiptasia-X.
Watching one of my friends use this treatment was interesting and amazing to say the least. To my amazement it worked, and it worked fast.
i went and purchased the treatment and started doseing.
The pictures are from my camera phone and not of the best quality but it will at least illustrate how well this stuff works.
It appeared that the treatments works, or so we thought. The biggest problem with aforementioned treatments was that utilization of a syringe, not a common tool found in the hobby, let alone in most states are syringes easily obtained without doctors orders and or prescriptions.
I, however was able to get my hands on a couple of everyday IM needles to use for the aiptasia injections.
A week or two later after treatments we would see a little cluster of babies starting to grow in a different area and again we would treat deal. It seemed this was just life with reef tanks. We would treat the problem area and it would be done. Add a new rock or coral colony and we would be dealing with the problem again.
I Recently introduced a couple of frag plugs to our tank and noticed the plug had an aiptasia on it, so I went and got my tools need to remove the pest. As I injected the aiptasia and I watch it spit this real quick burst of white. Not thinking anything of it other then maybe it was trying to spit out the lemon juice shortly thereafter it started wilt away. Problem solved once again. Not so. In the picture you can see the cluster of babies that started to grow in an area that never had aiptasia before. The cluster of baby aiptasia were at an angle that was hard to get a good look at and see just where I was sticking the needle. Not wanting to inject one of the xenia that was growing in the area and being the rock was to big to remove I was in a for difficult time to treat these pest.
I was introduced to a new product called aiptasia-X.
Watching one of my friends use this treatment was interesting and amazing to say the least. To my amazement it worked, and it worked fast.
i went and purchased the treatment and started doseing.
The pictures are from my camera phone and not of the best quality but it will at least illustrate how well this stuff works.
