What to do with live rock

[cloienc27]

I want to take out several pieces of the live rock in my tank. They have been in there for about 4years now. I bought some mushrooms from the lfs about 7 mos ago and apparently it had some apstasia seeds on it. I have been battling these pest now for too long! There is a couple pieces of rock that are completely covered!! If I take these rocks out, what do I do with them to kill off the apstasia? I have plenty of other rock in the tank so I don't have to put those rocks back in there.

 

[toosalty]

Buy a flamethrower and have fun.

 

[cloienc27]

Ha Ha I am almost to that point

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by cloienc27
http:///forum/post/3129088
I want to take out several pieces of the live rock in my tank. They have been in there for about 4years now. I bought some mushrooms from the lfs about 7 mos ago and apparently it had some apstasia seeds on it. I have been battling these pest now for too long! There is a couple pieces of rock that are completely covered!! If I take these rocks out, what do I do with them to kill off the apstasia? I have plenty of other rock in the tank so I don't have to put those rocks back in there.
Soak it in freshwater for a few days...the entire rock will be dead...it can be reseeded with the live rock alraedy in the tank.

 

[cdposey26]

get some berghia nudibranches or peppermint shrimp. If the aptasia are still pretty small these guys should wipe them out. You can also try copperbanded butterfly fish, I have heard they eat them too.

 

[marine bio 101]

Use Joe's Juice to kill them off. That is what I did and worked great.

 

[bmkj02]

I used a combination of peppermint shrimps and Joe's Juice. I had an infestation of them and it cleared them up in a jiffy.

 

[rf_rookie]

Hi all! I have the same problem too, where can I get the joe's juice? I habve 3 pepermint shrimps in there now. BTW my tank is 58g

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by RF_rookie
http:///forum/post/3131140
Hi all! I have the same problem too, where can I get the joe's juice? I habve 3 pepermint shrimps in there now. BTW my tank is 58g

The only place to get Joe's juice is online...just google it...Aiptasia X from LFS works the same. $17.00 a bottle here by me. joe's juice is cheaper..but then you pay shipping..

 

[rf_rookie]

Thank you Flower! I got it from Amazon that Joe's juice + feeding bottle with S/H is about $17. Hope it works! cross my fingers!

 

[jelly-shrimp]

this might be overkill buuuuuuuuuuuuttt.....get a 5gal bucket, fill it up with boiling saltwater and thoroughly add a whole bottle of Joe's juice then toss in some rock. If it's not dead.....nuke it, or stick it in the microwave...lol Or do what everyone else said.

 

[truperc]

FWIW - I bought a tank off someone else that had aiptasia everywhere.
I bought Aiptasia - X and killed 90 % of them in about 2 hours.
60 gallon tank with about 50 - 60 lbs of rock for reference
Over the next week or so, I killed about 98% of them.
I battled with the last 2 % for about the next 4 months, but have not seen one for several months now.
I tried the peppermint shrimp, and they did not work for me.
For some they do, but it is hit or miss.