quack
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Tips from a veteran Aiptasia fighter:
If you can easily remove a infested rock do so, soak it overnite in fresh water, then blast em off and return the rock.
Remember you are adding dead organic material to your tank, so stage your attack over time to allow your system to process the load!
Hot water on the small one works well!!
And now for the secret weapon: A bang stick! A long stick with 'thermostat' wire ( its rigid enough) ends stripped and connected to a 6 to 10 volt DC power source for safety or to a AC transformer ( not the wall!) set to 10 to 20 v. but only 500 milli-amps. For the larger ones slip the exposed wire tips (spaced 1 or 2 mm apart not touching each other) into or as close to the base of the sucker as you can. As it retracts add the power ( a friend at the power end or rig a thumb switch ) and zap for 1 or 2 seconds!!! BYE BYE anemone!!
Now this works especially well for majanos. The don't retract much and when they do they just conveniently do so onto the wire ends!!!!
Have a grounding probe in ur tank. If your hands get wet you will get a little tingle if you use a thumb contact. Safer with the friend method! Do not use AC power unless you no wot u r doin!
Now i KNOW THE NAYSAYERS WILL HAVE A THOUSAND AND 1 WARNINGS, SCREAMS ETC... all i can say it werks. Never lost a critter. Never even seems to affect the fish. Now if u get close to a hermit (like the one that had a majano on his shell ) well u could enter him in a race!!!! If you have the luxury of a large tank, this is the way to go.
But remember the load on your system . . its like throwin dead critters in you tank! And on the smaller ones, use hot water, squirt sand on them, etc...
PS berghia, shrimp, raccoon butterfly's . . don't work for the large battles
If you can easily remove a infested rock do so, soak it overnite in fresh water, then blast em off and return the rock.
Remember you are adding dead organic material to your tank, so stage your attack over time to allow your system to process the load!
Hot water on the small one works well!!
And now for the secret weapon: A bang stick! A long stick with 'thermostat' wire ( its rigid enough) ends stripped and connected to a 6 to 10 volt DC power source for safety or to a AC transformer ( not the wall!) set to 10 to 20 v. but only 500 milli-amps. For the larger ones slip the exposed wire tips (spaced 1 or 2 mm apart not touching each other) into or as close to the base of the sucker as you can. As it retracts add the power ( a friend at the power end or rig a thumb switch ) and zap for 1 or 2 seconds!!! BYE BYE anemone!!
Now this works especially well for majanos. The don't retract much and when they do they just conveniently do so onto the wire ends!!!!
Have a grounding probe in ur tank. If your hands get wet you will get a little tingle if you use a thumb contact. Safer with the friend method! Do not use AC power unless you no wot u r doin!
Now i KNOW THE NAYSAYERS WILL HAVE A THOUSAND AND 1 WARNINGS, SCREAMS ETC... all i can say it werks. Never lost a critter. Never even seems to affect the fish. Now if u get close to a hermit (like the one that had a majano on his shell ) well u could enter him in a race!!!!
If you have the luxury of a large tank, this is the way to go.But remember the load on your system . . its like throwin dead critters in you tank! And on the smaller ones, use hot water, squirt sand on them, etc...
PS berghia, shrimp, raccoon butterfly's . . don't work for the large battles
