If it's not safe to just pull the aiptasia off from the rock and discard it, since it can have spores all over the tank and populate, then how is it ok to leave it in the tank and have shrimps or copperbands eat it? What if during their eating they also cut through the aiptasia and release spores in the tank as well?
I can see one of those in my tank right now, but it seems to be dead, because it came on the LR I bought and the LR was exposed to air for a while. It's dirty yellow in color and never grows or anything.